I’m imagining all of the DDR raid mechanics packed into a mobile WoW game.
I’m also throwing up profusely.
I am sure it doesn’t have to be a 1 to 1 conversion. If they ever release diablo immortal I guess we could see what changes they made there.
I think a lot will depend on how 10.0 does. If it has a successful launch Microsoft may be inclined to leave well enough alone but if it doesn’t, then we can expect to see some sort of interference from MS which, in that event, may not be a bad thing.
This is bad news for support staff at Acti-Blizz as one of the ways companies start recouping their investment is to cut the redundancy. If WoW is moved to the cloud, which is probably inevitable then lots of administrative layoffs over a period of several years.
I am cautiously optimistic as Microsoft has learned that good customer service usually translates into future purchases and folks staying with the upgrade path. This is from a retired corporate I.T. guy who spend most of his career dealing with Microsoft products.
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I would be surprised if their first move isn’t to remove all these sickos in charge of Activision-Blizzard.
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WoW is already in AWS. Also, considering how barebones Blizzard’s current customer support staff is, I don’t see that getting trimmed much more either.
When I have to wait days for a ticket response from Blizzard, but less than an hour from Rockstar, to me as a gamer something looks seriously wrong.
Well this is certainly a thing to wake up to. I’ll take some Microsoft hype.
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Are you sure of this? I have read some games are there but nothing about WoW specifically. I can’t imagine the need for weekly resets if the servers are cloud based. Not saying you’re wrong as you are usually good with your data but if you have a definite article I’d appreciate it.
That sucks about the ticket time you’ve experienced as I’ve never had a problem with tickets and time. Hopefully, the lag time didn’t keep you from playing. I think about 24 hours has been my maximum, but then I’m a lightweight player and may not have complex tickets.
Thanks.
And Doom Guy
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Deploying code may still require downtime regardless of whether the server is in the cloud. It’s not about physically taking the server down, it’s about shutting down the instance so that database changes can be applied, scripts run, etc.
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They want Call of Duty to better compete with Playstation. CoD made $27b in revenue last year alone. I seriously doubt they care that much about WoW or the rest of the ActiBlizzard library.
Where did you find this information?
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This will be wonderful
I wonder if they will convert our subs to game pass…
Call of Duty is still staying multiplatform.
It’s possible I’m incorrect about WoW itself being hosted in AWS. I cannot find official statements to support it, just forum posts from non-blues. With that said, we do know bnet is to an extent, and along with other factors, it’s possible WoW is in the cloud too.
Fire up WoW and have the Bnet client running, then open an elevated command prompt and run netstat -anb , which will spit out current network connections along with their process name. wow.exe and battle.net.exe are the ones of interest.
The battle.net.exe IPs are associated with Cloudfront (AWS).
The ones in Wow.exe are difficult to find much info on, but a couple of them are Google IPs. It may very well be that WoW is hosted in GCP and not AWS, or perhaps still hosted in private datacenters, but it’s nearly impossible to state with certainty since there’s also the chance they just simply brought their own IPs with them to wherever.
But Bnet is certainly offloaded to AWS to an extent, and the use of Google networking is of interest as well. It’s quite clear that if WoW isn’t already in the cloud, then it’s only a matter of time anyways.
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Under New Management sign couldn’t come quicker.
But do wonder how this will effect WoW and it’s staff since there was supposed to be some expansions left.
Oh yeah, also can’t wait for GDs favorite Youtubers to weigh in.
If they are, that will be changing.
As long as I don’t have to install / run Microsoft Games I don’t care.
MS is taking over my life though.
My work is Microsoft products. Now my pleasure is going to technically be microsoft product.
Microsoft branded toilet paper when?
I hope not I got enough different places to sign in already…I hope we can keep our Bnet account the same for the PC…
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Unfortunately this.
I’m part of several gaming/Fandom communities that mostly are made up of gamers.
Many don’t even know what WoW is, some just didn’t realize wow STILL existed. In a few of these some were former WoW players, in all of them I’m the ONLY one actually active.
Now most of these communities were primarily for console gaming, but still, a console gamer back during WoW’s golden years still knew about it.
WoW is sadly not the juggernaut it used to be, not even close. More people have heard about Cuphead now than WoW.