The thing that really gets my goat about the folks feigning outrage is that, looking at the actual game, it looks it’s called “A Pandemic System Game” because it’s being done by the makers of Pandemic, and uses Pandemic’s gameplay structure, not that the actual game revolves around a pandemic outside of, you know, the Scourge, which was inspired by concepts and plagues that predate COVID-19 by anywhere between two to three-hundred decades.
And even then, likening a pandemic to a fantasy zombie outbreak seems rather farcical.
Actually - did you see Corona fall flat on their face trying to make light of COVID when it hit? Notice how that marketing never manifested beyond a tweet?
Do you think someone should be shamed for drinking a beer with a name that has something in common with something else.
Do you think Beer = Lethal virus sharing same name
Or
Game about lethal virus pandemic = Real life lethal virus pandemic.
Which pair do you think have more in common - that being said it strikes me as a marketing gimmick - which might just be poorly timed (and may be because of shadowlands digging into DK lore) I do not think the citing and game modelling choice was a wise idea though and again - given the timing it means we were likely all locked down when someone hatched this idea.
Then why use the title let people find out who the makers is not use it as a title for a game gg we have bad enough problem with covid to have a title like that come on now.
It could be that its simply a battlefield management game - or it could be a scourge plague. Given how few probably know what the Pandemic game system is however it seems a poor choice of words in advertising.
Feel free to PM me your credentials - otherwise your just farming for authority. Some folks have actually lost loved ones to COVID and I think the timing is bad. Care to address the rest of my post?
I am curious if blizzard spent money to produce it or if its just a cross licensing deal - figure merch is the last thing blizzard should be spending money on right now
The makers of Pandemic made a deal to make a WoW game based on Pandemic’s ruleset, they’re going to include something indicating this in the title because they want to make the game appeal to existing fans of Pandemic in addition to fans of Warcraft. That makes the game appeal to a wider audience and potentially generate more sales.
It’s like how Small World’s WoW tie-in was called “Small World of Warcraft” and not “World of Warcraft: The Battle for Azeroth Board Game,” or how the various versions of Monopoly out there are called things like “Sonic Monopoly” and not like, “Sonic the Hedgehog: Mobius Capitalism” or something.
