just curious what will happen to WoW and other live games now that Microsoft has “taken over”. I know Bobby Kotick is gone as of the new year but is WoW gonna go on as is? Will they add it to the Xbox game pass?
I’m curious
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Very little difference to the game itself if past behaviour is any indicator. Microsoft doesn’t tend to micromanage the studios it buys.
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The CEO of ActiBlizzKing had zero interest/hand in WoW. It’s likely that the CEO of Microsoft will have zero interest/hand in WoW. The chief of the Xbox division of Microsoft might consider putting WoW on GamePass for PC, but probably not as that’s a straight up revenue loss ($15/mo for WoW subscription vs $10/mo for GamePass PC).
Other than that, you can expect that the current WoW leadership will remain unchanged and stay on their current course (with the exception that Chris Metzen is now part of that leadership).
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You’d probably have better luck asking msft on Twitter than asking the GD dwellers who have no possible way to answer your question.
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but the GD dwellers give so much more dramatic and entertaining answers…
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We are going to get a paper clip pet. You’ll summon him even when you don’t.
“I see you are cowarding out of this fight. Have you tried bubble-hearthing?”
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FITY.
But hopefuly. 
Is it though? Lower entry point + benefits of pass = significantly more players. Increase player base by the hundreds of thousands, possibly even millions and you’ll see revenue increase in shop purchases, token purchases etc. which might more than make up for the decrease subscription prices.
We don’t know about the Gamepass stuff just yet. They won’t even be adding games to it until next year. So we’ll have to wait and see there. But this week will be the first time Phil Spencer even meets with the WoW team, so any plans for anything are not even a thing just yet. And no other game they acquired really changed, so I wouldn’t expect much. Maybe some typical merger layoffs.
Hopefully, the layoffs will rid of the devs that haven’t paid enough attention to the player base that is the chaos it currently is.
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If ESO is anything to go by… literally nothing.
This!
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Not likely. Merger layoffs are usually management level where the role at ABK is duplicate to someone who already does that function at MS and can handle the added acquisition workload. Working level devs within a division of ABK are likely not being laid off (at least not as a result of the merger).
Nothing. Look at ESO. MS owns that game and it still running the same before they bought out the publishing company.
I just don’t know if WoW will go f2p or b2p or stay the same. I don’t think it will go on the Xbox game pass since PC games don’t use that but if the game goes to console then I am sure it will use it just for consoles.
Speaking of consoles, for the console players this will just improve the chances of WoW going to console I bet.
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One might say they’re soft on micromanagement.
I’ll be here all week.
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I really don’t expect much change if i’m being honest. Sure microsoft owns blizz now. But microsoft probably won’t have much to do with WoW since WoW is kinda it’s own thing. Devs are basically independent.
Microsoft probably wants Call of Duty to increase the marketshare on their XBox. Other than that, they will tell Activision to make a profit on their other products. WoW will either do that or it won’t.
What are you? 12?
Oh. One of the fragile ego’d 12 year olds. Makes sense now.
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Why would people that aren’t playing WoW suddenly have a desire to play to the tune of hundreds of thousands and millions of players?
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Microsoft only wanted CoD and King. They don’t really care about a 20 yrs old MMO. That’s currently bleeding subs left to right.
Ion and Steve will still be here next year. Nothing will change.
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Expectation: WoW in the gamepass, new dev team for the classes.
Reality: Minecraft mods with orcs and humans
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