If everyone has been waiting for a World of Warcraft game on mobile since mobiles have existed, the official announcement a few months ago was a real relief. Although the universe of the famous PC title is quite well represented in the Hearthstone card game, we are far from a WoW.
If Activision Blizzard had announced in May the arrival of two new mobile games related to Warcraft, including Warcraft Arclight Rumble, a Clash Royale-type strategy game similar to Warcraft, the second has taken the lead in the wing. You probably won’t see an MMORPG similar to World of Warcraft in the near future.
WoW Mobile Reportedly Canceled
Apparently, this second mysterious game has been cancelled, according to a report from Bloomberg. Our colleague indicates that the game had been in development for three years already, but that Blizzard and its development partner NetEase could not agree on a financing problem and finally decided to kill the project rather than find a solution. Not only does this mean that we have just put three years of work in the trash, but also that the hundred developers have been assigned elsewhere.
Interestingly, the report also states that a third Warcraft mobile game was in the works and was supposed to be a Pokemon GO-like augmented reality game, but was officially scrapped by the time Arclight Rumble was announced early. may. Apparently, this game had been in development for four years before it was canceled. This is all pretty weird, especially considering that NetEase has been the distributor of World of Warcraft proper in China since 2009, meaning the two companies have worked together for over a decade. One would think that they would be able to settle this matter. Anyway, if this story is indeed true, it’s really a shame, because many fans are still waiting for a mobile WoW.