I would love to see some indie company doing something with the ip, like a roguelike, a metroidvania or a isometric action rpg.
Is incredible to see how a company with limited resources can mage a great game just by using their talent and creativity to make him rely on great mechanics while the multi-million dollar company can’t even understand the genre basics when making Choreghast.
They will never sell the IP. Not until they’ve driven it into the ground and removed all potential value for it for other investors.
The absolute closest you could hope for would be costs getting too high to maintain WoW and instead of shutting it down (more likely) they sell it off to some smaller studio, maybe former Blizzard people to maintain and/or develop for and get paid yearly licensing fees + cut of total income above certain amount in return. The problem with that is of course if these devs take it in one direction and Blizz closes a deal with Netflix for Warcraft the series and WoW the game is going off on its own thing, the differences in lore depending on what they go with for the series could be jarring and disruptive to potential new fans. So I doubt they’ve give up control.
Don’t get your hopes up. Even if Blizz folds, they could just sit on the IP like a dragon hoarding its gold without doing anything worthwhile to it.
Like how Castlevania, Silent Hill, and Metal Gear are basically dead franchises now just because Konami doesn’t have any interest in making games beyond pachinko machines and won’t relinquish the IP.
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Square Enix, I’d love to see Blood Elves in SE style.
Blizzard is in zero danger of folding. That said, the only deep pocket gullible enough to buy it would probably be Tencent. If any company without that kind of deep pockets bought it, watch out for the meataxes.
O mighty Lord Gaben please save us.
Must be nice being this stupid.
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I would prefer that outcome, but it’s not likely.
GIve it to the Final fantasy devs, they would treat warcraft better than blizzard did in the last 5 years.
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If it were to be acquired by another company it would be Tencent anyway.
I wouldn’t mind a KH-esque WoW, though if we get 13 Sylvanas’…I’m out…
Yes, this is the entire state of California’s goal…put Activision out of business so all the innocent people can start looking for other jobs.
That makes good financial sense.
FFS.
Blizzard doesn’t have a single successful game on the market
Retail WoW is successful. It supposedly makes good money, as poorly received as it has been in the past few years. I knew a few people who seemed to have infinite money in game, but didn’t farm or do any carries, so anecdotally I’d say that’s driven by WoW tokens.
They’re also about to cash in on D2 nostalgia in two months since everyone already forgot about WC3R. Blizzard is just fine. I’m sure all the esports crap is bleeding money, but they’re doing fine everywhere else. Maybe not critically, but financially.
If you you think people who have invested nearly two decades into this game, are going to ‘start over’ on a different version of Warcraft, you’re in for a surprise.
Ha! Even if that were true, what’s the issue? What’s the alternative, for that matter? Staying somewhere where you aren’t welcomed?
for real somebody’s got to make one.
now that the elder scrolls only makes Skyrim.
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Companies have survived worse. Even if they are found guilty it won’t be enough to end the company…
That gif is from Shallow Hal, what a funny movie.
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It’s not just 1 thing, it’s last 3 years as whole.
They’ve lost good will with playerbase, there’s no denying that. Some people will still play, WoW will still make some profit, but not as nearly as it would without all this drama and poor development choices.
Fact is, Blizzard competes with Activision and King for quarterly profits, and if they can’t deliver, and fall behind, things will be changing.