There is much more money to be made in Mobile then PC, and it costs a fraction of the price. Plus the monetization of mobile games. Blizzard is no longer a company of Games made by gamers for gamers. Activision has complete control now . They want profits and they want them fast.
Blizzard screwed up but not making a World of Starcraft . Instead they rested on their laurels and got lazy. Now they are paying the price. There will never be a WOW 2
Youre playing wow 2 when you log into live; if you want to play wow you have to wait till august.
think about it; Every big MMO that did a â2â flopped, blizz did it smart by using small leaps in logic to slowly change the game into what would be wow 2 over 3 expansions.
Honestly I would not play a new PC game from this company , they no longer have the talent or the heart to make a new PC game
Itâll never happen except maybe a decade or so after WoW ends as a throwback marketing gimmick.
It makes far more sense, if they continue the MMO route, to tap into one of their other franchises like StarCraft or Diablo. Making WoW 2 while WoW still exists and is profitable will both take away subscribers from WoW and prevent subscribers from WoW 2 (essentially just splitting WoWâs population). MMOs are on a downward trend and have been for some time. Youâre not going to get a whole lot of new players.
You can forget amy future incarnation of WoW running on a differnt engine like Unreal. The engine isnât the problem. 15 years of code Frankensteined togther on the other hand . . .
Weâll see a â2â when they can cost effectively recreate the game world, and tranfer all of our character data into a new base code.
You will not scale a dangerous mountain if you donât know to survive to the weather and cold, even if at the top of the mountain there is a bag with 10.000.000 $ waiting for you.
This is the same. Make a full shift from PC games to Mobile games is too risky. And Activision would choose another company for that task (make cell phone games), a company who have a notable experience and acomplishments in that area.
Risky? Mobile games make more money in a week then most PC games make in a year. The risk vs reward is negligible . Blizzard is not the same company it used to be. Blizzard in name only
They tried with Titan and that failed. They have since said they wontâ make a new MMO⌠So no I donât believe weâll ever see WoW 2.0
Micro transactions in mobile games would disagree with you
We started WOW 2 with MOP.
Once you are watching the simpsons go to paris,
you are watching a different cartoon.
You donât understand. No men of business will invest in a company who have no experience while there are others that they have that experience. Itâs that simple, even if the reward is huge.
Will you bet money in a horse race where there is a big reward, into a horse and rider unexpenrienced, or you will choose someone with a better background?
WoW 2? I like the idea.
The fact that microtransactions can earn you a lot of money doesnât mean that you are going to win that money if you start to develop cell phones games. There are a lot of factors more to get in mind, like others companies competing, among others things.
I donât really care what direction the gameplay or story they come up with, as long as it makes me say⌠WoW!
It has to, or they need to change the direction of the game. Thereâs got to be a limit to how powerful we can get, in term of antagonists for the storyline.
It is you that does not understand. Businesses exist to make profit. If the profit becomes greater by switching to more mobile titles then that is exactly what they will do.
Blizzard is a privately owned subsidiary of Activision / Blizzard. These are two different companies. Activision / Blizzard has a lot of mobile game experience. Especially through another privately owned subsidiary called King Games.
Blizzard doesnât need to wow investors. Activision / Blizzard does.
Going to need to check a lot of boxes to even consider making such a jump;
Canât just be usual end of an expansion. WoW 1 would need to capstone a storyarc, which at the moment⌠is just a frayed mess of things. so likely an expansion or two needed just to establish that. Currently thereâs a Horde storyline focus. For a satisfying end, both would need that crescendo.
Many wouldnât want to go, or at least any time soon (See; Classic Servers hype), so you need to keep WoW 1 alive for the forseeable future. 5 years? 10 years? People still play runescape n shiz?
Likely means pvp seasons continue, balance checks, patches, fixes, addtional content? Youâd have to keep a whole team just keeping it going.
Given that they just set up an entire team for Classic, unlikely they are going to field one just to keep WoW 1 alive as well.
IDEALLY WoW 2 would need hell of a drawing story arc leading to expansions, new engine to adopt modern systems and needs, pvp draw, raid systems, are they gunna adopt mods again, etc etc. People want to take any of the current info, items, gear, etc? Astronomically not likely. all that coding mess for over x million accounts?
No youâd be starting fresh, kiddos.
Such a decision is a LOT bigger now than just going âlets make another oneâ or like the death and rebirth that FF14 underwent, or any of the annual poop that Ubisoft or EA makes.
WoW â1â will continue as long as they can keep successfully tweaking what they have to what they want to do, and it keeps making money.
My experience as a long time gamer is that you move to âGame Version 2.0â when the current engine has INHERENT limitations that prevent you from moving your game forward with current technology. That should always be your MAIN reason-- you canât do cool things with your game ⌠AND you also do a graphics update.
WoW has A LOT of flaws currently, but I donât see anything inherently wrong with the ENGINE. For example, the biggest thing right now-- Sharding-- is an idea that should have worked on paper. And technically speaking, it does work. Itâs just not actually doing what itâs supposed to. But moving to a V2.0 wouldnât change that. Theyâre just not using the CURRENT tech properly.
So all WoW 2.0 would have to offer is a graphics upgrade. And ⌠thatâs pointless. WoW never was, isnât, and never will be a photo-realistic game. You could have a complete paradigm shift just with the 1.0 engine if you even used half of what is available with current gfx tech. WoW is about style. Not realism.
I canât imagine any situation in the next 10 years that where WoW 2.0 is even remotely mentioned for any reason.