Hello everyone, this is Warcraft Weekly.
【Warcraft Weekly】It is mainly composed of three parts: "Warcraft Events", "Warcraft Competitive Product Dynamics" and "Warcraft Game Update".
Let's take a look at what Warcraft news is not happy recently!
【Warcraft Event】
Broken! Codick is likely to remain the CEO of Activision Blizzard, and then mention the Chinese game threat theory
As the culprit of the suspension of Blizzard National Service, I believe that everyone must have heard of the name of Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Cordik, and in previous foreign media interviews, because of his series of "exhaustion and fishing" tumultuous operations during the Microsoft acquisition, many people are speculating that this product is ready to make a fortune and leave.
However, in the recent interview column of the century-old entertainment culture magazine "Varirty", Bobby Cordik talked about the CEO term in public for the first time, and said that regardless of whether the Microsoft acquisition can pass, he has a high probability of remaining as the CEO of Activision Blizzard.
Bobby Caudik revealed that in addition to the British CMA's disagreement with Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the US FTC also has a negative attitude towards Activision Blizzard. Therefore, Microsoft and Activision Blizzard will not only win the UK lawsuit on July 24, but also win the US hearing on August 12, which is quite difficult.
At the same time, Bobby Codick once again reiterated the concept of China's game threat theory, arguing that foreign game companies should unite, not be busy fighting all day, and everyone needs to face up to the threat of competition from Chinese technology giants in major foreign markets, including China's Tencent and ByteDance.
To put it bluntly, Bobby Caudik's influence in Activision Blizzard is still huge, even Microsoft does not want to annoy him and cause Activision Blizzard's revenue to be affected, coupled with this "Chinese game threat theory" proposal, I think there is really no need for national server players to wait for the reopening of Blizzard National Server.
Can't beat Blizzard's KPIs? Warcraft's chief combat designer announced his departure
This week, World of Warcraft's lead combat designer Brian Holinka announced that he had left to work on a new and even greater game (most likely a new MMO) with former Blizzard chief designer director Ghost Crab.
From the perspective of this old man's resume, he joined Blizzard in 2012 as a senior designer of "World of Warcraft", and although he was sent to the new project team to support for a period of time, he has served as the chief combat designer of the official server since 2018, and innovatively proposed a plan to gradually open all race class options in the 10.0 new version, attracting a large number of old players to return.
Therefore, it is foreseeable that the departure of Brian Holinka will make it quite difficult to make several minor versions of the class balance and changes, and will also leave Blizzard's combat design team in chaos for a while.
Some players combined with the "last elimination system" revealed by Brian Birmingham, the head of the previous World of Warcraft nostalgic suit, when he left, they speculated that in the case of extremely poor performance in version 10.1, Brian Holinka may become the person who was pushed out to back the pot, and finally made the old brother's mentality collapse and choose to leave the job backhandedly.
Against the sky! The former Warcraft screenwriter said he was fired from Caudik for satirizing goblins
According to VGC, Eric Covington, a former designer and screenwriter of World of Warcraft, claimed that he was fired by Blizzard after writing a joke mocking the incompetence and greed of corporate managers when he officially wrote the Goblin Race story mission for World of Warcraft.
As for the official reason for his dismissal, it is naturally the hated "last place elimination system", but Eric Covington can prove that there is nothing wrong with his screenwriting ability, because the goblin jokes he wrote are officially used as a fun questline to promote the Warcraft 10.0 version...
It can only be said that this old brother messes with anyone, but he wants to write a joke that mocks the managers of the enterprise, isn't this hitting the muzzle of Cordik?
Activision Blizzard Begins Recruiting New Employees for Shanghai, China!
Recently, according to Activision Blizzard's official website, Activision has re-recruited people for the game market, covering programming, planning and production, and the work location is the Activision division in Shanghai, China.
The job information is as follows:
Program class
Senior Software Engineer, Gameplay
Software Engineer
Curated class
Level Designer
Production class
Senior Producer
According to Activision's research and development plan in recent years, this recruitment is estimated to be a transnational game research and development project similar to the "Call of Duty" mobile game, or it may be the restart plan of some old IPs, anyway, we can look forward to the news of a new work.
【Warcraft Competitor News】
The original team of Black Sands is built, and the latest version of "Red Desert" 2023 is about to be released!
According to South Korean game developer PearlAbyss, officials are preparing for the current development of "Red Desert", the game has been confirmed to participate in the Summer Game Festival, and is ready to release a real demo of the latest version.
It is understood that the development of "Red Desert" is nearing the end, PearlAbyss will focus on fixing bugs, debugging engines, improving the weather system and other secondary work, the game's charging method is similar to "Destiny 2", "Guild Wars 2" such European and American buyout end games, the body is equivalent to a single machine, and there will be multiplayer online modes and paid DLC updates in the future.
The effect that "Red Desert" wants to achieve, on the one hand, is to meet the standard of 3A stand-alone, 3A-level picture quality, 3A-level high freedom, open world and 3A-level action strike, on the other hand, it is to realize the online game attributes that 3A stand-alone does not have, in the subsequent multiplayer online mode, there are PVP fights, siege battles, time and space dungeons, life gameplay, fishing and navigation trade, etc.
However, judging from the way Hanyou has always liked to draw cakes in recent years, I still advise everyone to reduce their expectations a little, so as not to be fooled by them again.
"Call of the Devil" developer's new MMORPG "Zenonia" released a real video
A few days ago, South Korean game company Com2us said that it will release the main professional skills display video of its MMORPG masterpiece "Zenonia" in turn.
Com2us' first public class is the melee "Great Sword", and through a video of more than 1 minute, we can see not only the refreshing basic attacks of the Great Sword class, but also the many new skills of the "Great Sword" class.
It is understood that starting with this video, Com2us will publicly launch the "bow and arrow" of long-range attacks, the "magic staff" of the nanny profession, the "short sword" that is good at stealth and surprise attacks, and the "magic ball" that uses powerful attack magic.
It is worth mentioning that Zenonia does not have a clear class division, and the skill combinations available to players will change according to the weapon they hold.
"Zenonia" is a representative RPG series under the Korean game company GAME VIL (now Com2uS). Starting with the first "Zenonia" in 2008, a total of seven works have been released, with a cumulative total of 63 million downloads, which is also an important mark in the history of Korean RPG mobile games, and this new work is scheduled to be launched in the first half of this year.
The Bandai Namco MMO game "Blue Protocol" was officially launched on June 14
Bandai Namco's massively multiplayer online game Blue Protocol is scheduled to officially launch on June 14, and pre-order events are now open.
Blue Protocol is an MMOJRPG developed for PC by Project Blue Sky, a production team of Bandai Namco, a collaboration between Bandai Namco Online and Bandai Namco Studios. Developed using the Unreal Engine 4, the game adds a multiplayer action system and is set in an alternate world with "animated cinematic representation".
In the game, there are five playable classes: Sword and Shield, Double Axe, Archer, Mage, and Heavy Hitter.
The Sword and Shield are tanks that have damage capabilities on the one hand and can use shields for defense and protection missions on the other, Mages and Archer are ranged DPS, and Double Axe and Heavy Hitter are melee DPS. Double axe, biased towards aggression, outstanding features are able to attack non-stop, damage is very explosive, heavy hitter, relatively rare, use blunt object attack, the sense of blow is very unique and can be attached to a variety of abnormal states, interested can expect a hand.
【Warcraft Game Update】
Blocked 5 times a day! Blizzard Hammer Warcraft Asiasuit Studio
According to the news of a certain treasure training platform, the Blizzard GM team finally made a ruthless move, and this week carried out a wave of large-scale bans against accounts suspected of cheating by scripting, and its ban strength reached up to 5 more a day!
At present, the accounts still in the hands of the studio are basically not left behind, and some studio managers directly said that they have gone bankrupt at a loss and no longer accept orders.
Because the 2,000 numbers in his hand were blocked by Blizzard to only more than 300 can still play normally, and without counting the cost of computers, electricity and scripts, the investment of 1,700 monthly cards alone is as high as 170,000, which can be said to spit out all the money earned before.
Free Return Pack? Warcraft officially serves new progress catch-up rewards
Recently, Blizzard updated the update progress of the World of Warcraft official server, version 10.1.5 is expected to be launched in the summer, and the designers will carry out a series of game experience improvement plans for returning players.
According to data mining, returning players who do not log in to the game for a certain period of time can get a free return package.
This pack includes four items, new equipment and backpacks to keep up with existing progress, clearing the mission log of previous versions in one go, teleporting to your home city, and resetting your talents at any time for a period of time.
Obviously, this return package is designed for the group of old players who can't keep up with the version of the national service, and if the national service can really be reopened, every player can use this benefit to experience the latest version of the content.