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https://www.gamespot.com/articles/warcraft-rumble-will-receive-no-new-content-amidst-layoffs-at-blizzard/1100-6532929/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f

>Warcraft Rumble Will Receive "No New Content" Amidst Layoffs At Blizzard
>Reports claim as many as 100 Blizzard employees could be impacted by the larger layoffs at Xbox.
>"As part of these changes, we made the difficult decision to shift to a scaled down, live ops-only phase of development for Warcraft Rumble, similar to our current approach with games like StarCraft II and Heroes of the Storm.”
>Warcraft Rumble, a mobile tower defense game based on Blizzard's popular Warcraft series, was released back in 2023 after nine years in development.

>>714352519 (OP)
>nine years in development

Never heard of it.

>>714352519 (OP)
I downloaded this game because I was bored and it's just spam units and win

The fuck is warcraft rumble?

>>714352519 (OP)
game is dogshit anyway
>9 years in development
lol

I tried warzone mobile once. I think I was the only non cheater on server. Didn't bother with it much ever since

>>714352519 (OP)
Now kill ASSFAGGOTSwatch 2.

>>714352519 (OP)
>Warcraft Rumble, a mobile tower defense game based on Blizzard's popular Warcraft series, was released back in 2023 after nine years in development.
>AFTER NINE YEARS
Please tell me we are allowed to point and laugh.

>>714354141
it's just clash royale

hearthstone was in development for 6 years idk what the big deal is.

>>714352519 (OP)
wtf is warcraft rumble

>nine years
>NINE
>YEARS
holy fuck

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What is Warcraft Rumble?

>>714352519 (OP)
>Warcraft Rumble, a mobile tower defense game
how does a mobile game of all things spend nine years in development?

>>714352519 (OP)
>only 100 people fired
everyone at actiblizz should be killed though

>>714355906
Same way a card game is in development for 6 years: bad leadership

>>714352519 (OP)
>as many as 100 Blizzard employees
many, huh.. dont they have like several thousands? and then throw another game in the bin right away. what the fuck does the remaining 3900 people do then?

>>714353840
7 years before release what the fuck

I remember the corny ass reveal for that garbage. Pure zoomer energy. "Love letter" lmao

>>714352519 (OP)
>basic mobile TD game with microtransactions started as a love letter to Azeroth

>>714352519 (OP)
>NINE FUCKING YEARS IN DEVELOPMENT
>born dead
This game is from WoD times lmao

>>714353953
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu3Bf3QrF-g

>>714355587
>i'm afraid its been

>>714353840
Yikes, why would a slop mobile game like this take so long to make? These games are pumped out by scam companies in like 3 weeks.

>hey bro what should we do for our first warcraft spinoff since Cardstone
>:

>>714352519 (OP)
>9 years
I SURE HOPE IT WAS WORTH THE WEIGHT

>>714352519 (OP)
>mobile tower defense game
>9 years in development
how?

Another argument for SKG

>>714365645
because it was never a game in the first place. it was a massive make-work operation so people could keep their do-nothing jobs. if it ever released it would've flopped and they all would've been fired, which is exactly why they never released it

>>714352519 (OP)
>similar to our current approach with games like StarCraft II
yesterday i spent 2 hours trying to fix the Mass Recall mod's cutscenes... only to learn SC2 has recently completely disabled anything custom cutscene related, because of hackers using cutscenes to show porn and gore.

not a single fucking message within Sc2 about this. nothing. i had to learn this from a random forum post on the Mass Recall teamliquid threads

>>714364830
remember those gemcraft flash games? that guy released like 3 of those games in 5 years

>>714365610
CARLOS!!

>>714352519 (OP)
How often did they even update this game after release? Like once every few months? I think they forgot that mobile games need to be updated pretty frequently.

>>714354318
what happened to him? is he alive?

>>714352519 (OP)
Why make clash royale slop instead of a tower defense game where the characters are the towers like arknights

>>714352519 (OP)
>9 years in developer
>From Software made Dark Souls 3, Elden Ring and Nightreign in that time

What the fuck are you fat retards doing?

>>714357723
>>basic mobile TD game with microtransactions started as a love letter to Azeroth
kek

>>714368017
he makes videos on youtube about game dev stuff if you want to check on him

>>714365645
9 years of soi lattes and brekkies at blizzard cafeteria. crunch is inhumane by the way.

>>714352519 (OP)
>mobile game
>nine years in development

>>714352519 (OP)
Here is the team, it took them 9 years to make a mobile game

>>714353840
8 years were just adding all the microtransactions

>>714369310
>mostly white and asian males
How could it have failed, /v/ told me that's the secret to developing good games

>>714369310
>he/they

>>714353840
>>714364830
>>714356436
>>714369431
>dev interview
>"we wanted players to feel like they are playing magic arcade machine in Warcraft world"
>"we spend a great deal of time ensuring that unit models look and move like they are tiny figurines in a board game"
>"they even have special textures that makes them look like they are made of wood, and their shape is irregular like they've been carved"
>all this work and details
>for units that are super tiny on-screen
>in a MOBILE FUCKING GAME that people play on 7 inch screens while taking a shit
years of development well spent

>>714352519 (OP)
they should change the icon again, I'm sure this time it will make the game popular

>>714376097
the chudification didn't save it
>from woman to PoC
>the white man comes in at the last minute
too little too late

How come Blizzard didn't get the memo yet that there's no "modern audience" and that you actually have to cater to your real playerbase (white straight males) if you want to sell games?
Most western companies has figured this out after failures and failures, so how long will it take Blizzard to realize this?

And on top of that all the government woke funding is no more.

>>714376610
>stormwind footman
>white
lmao not a chance, get with the times chud

>>714352519 (OP)
I want to have sex so fucking much, bros. Idk if this is the thread to say it, but I just wanted to let it out.

>>714369594
Yes retard, that doesn't mean every game produced by a white male team is going to be good.

>>714377371
The problem with Warcraft Arclight Rumble™ (renamed to Warcraft Rumble™ [then renamed to Rumble™]) was that it didn't know what kind of audience it really aims for. They very clearly banked on "it's Warcraft and we're Blizzard, people will play it for sure" and it backfired.
Warcraft fans don't give a shit about mobile games, some of them tried it but the interest dropped after 1 week when they realized they can't progress without spending tons of money. The Warcraft theme pulled them in, but it was not enough to make them spend hundreds of dollars per month.
Mobile game fans tried it, but it was soooo unbelievably barebones at launch that they abandoned it instantly. And for them it being tied to Warcraft didn't matter at all, it could as well be another generic fantasy slop. The initial marketing focused on pink-haired le wacky gnome dyke didn't help either, that probably turned off a lot of potential non-Warcraft players away. They tried to backpedal few weeks after release, stopped promoting the pink hair gnome as a mascot, changed the icon multiple times, nerfed the gnome unit to the ground to make people stop using her, but the damage was done already.
And the last problem was that Blizzard didn't understand mobile games at all and made tons of rookie mistakes that other mobile game devs figured years ago (like pvp, or events, or in-game clans), and then did very little to fix those mistakes after release. Rumble was doomed from the start, it's bizarre they spent 9 years working on it with some vague hopes to dominate mobile market and in the end they probably sank hundreds of millions of dollars on it and now it will slowly fade into irrelevance.

>>714352519 (OP)
Here a overview what studios/teams are affect by the layoffs.

>>714352519 (OP)
Good, they deserve it for nuking heroes of the storm.

I wish all the employees at blizzard were affected by the layoffs.

>>714377718
>the dark knight

>>714377718
>knight who says ni

>>714365768
The fuck are you talking about? The game released.

>>714379242
Go to Germany -> brothels. You can look up the girls beforehand and make appointments. Since you're probably an Americunt you should have enough money.

>>714383601
it's also ironic because blizzard was owned by king prior to both being bought by microsoft, so they could have at least communicated with some of their teams about how to make a decent mobile game
7 years for something that king could have shat out in 7 weeks

>>714352519 (OP)
>9 years in development
Bamco got spics and clapistans stealing army money for LR UI Goku, Cygames had a monkey change how gachas work in general, Cookie Run got kids fighting and doxing each other over cookies, and Chinese companies started a revolution of making bigger scale games with gacha mechanics. What the fuck was Blizzard doing?

>>714352519 (OP)
After they chased away all the original developers, the company has been completely out of touch. It's all diversity hires now that produce pure garbage that only sell because of Blizzard's several decades of reputation that they are destroying now..

>>714367814
update?

>>714367814
took them like 10 months to release first major update
90% of playerbase abandoned the game already by that time

>>714386515
I'm afraid reference is lost on zooms and latter

>>714352519 (OP)
warcraft rumble launched?

>>714352519 (OP)
>Warcraft Rumble, a mobile tower defense game based on Blizzard's popular Warcraft series, was released back in 2023 after nine years in development.
I'm sorry, what?
It took 9 years to make a mobile tower defense game?

>>714391747
8 years of development time was spent by diversity consultants making sure that the stone the towers are made of aren't too white

>>714392042
Yeah thats on par for blizzard at this point.

>>714391719
clearly it was so under the radar, most didn't even notice the game exists(ed), as per this thread alone.

>9 years
>for a shitty clash of clans or whatever the fuck clone
bravo

>>714391613
Wew, what were they even thinking? Games like this need frequent updates to keep people logging in.

>>714393942
the only time blizzard as a company has ever patched something quickly was when they were patching out a bug that was considered fun by the player base

The most confusing part of this was that King was part of Activision for the majority of this games life. How did nobody pick up the phone and ask one of the most successful mobile game devs how to make their game suitably addictive?

>>714352519 (OP)
ACTIVISION blizzard has to be the dumbest fucking company for god fucking sakes. I was a fan from Warcraft 1 through Warcraft 3. Watching them get bought out and then releasing one turd after another, each with an increasing degree of microtransactions and payment and streamlining gameplay. Losing things like Dota and then this pathetic attempt to make a mobile tower defense game (another custom map created in original blizzard’s map editor). Just pathetic.

>>714394305
This is what I was thinking, how were they not able to at least get some tips on a mobile game from King? They are the best at making these slop games addictive.

>>714393942
Exactly. They also royally fumbled PvP and made whales quit because their whaling didn't give them enough advantage over F2P crowd. And mobile games without whales die very quickly.

>>714396416
Yeah, and then all the f2p people quit because the pve scaled way too fast without paying. pvp should and usually is considered whale territory in most gatchas.

Is Immortal still going?

>>714370138
>they
I don't get it does he have multiple personalities or some shit like that?

>>714396750
yes, for some reason some "people" love spending thousands on mobile games

>>714396918
They are mentally ill so probably.

>>714352519 (OP)
Was this ever advertised outside of of a niche subset of blizzard fans? I remember seeing people talk about it when it launched because of that cringy ad, but then I never heard about it after that.

>>714352519 (OP)
>nine years in development.

>>714357723
don't you fucking post my wife in a blizz thread you SLUT

>>714352519 (OP)
are we supposed to pretend this isn't the first time we've heard of this game. oh, uh, i'm really shocked and sadded by the failure of the game and the loss of its dev team. surely this is reflective of the company's impending collapse in say two weeks?

you could have made starcraft ghost blizzard
you could have buffed marines blizzard
you could have let blizz north make D3 blizzard
you could have made wc4 blizzard

warcraft rumble dev is that you?

>>714398017
i remember when blizzard announced a new play mode in hearthstone. it was by all accounts to be an expansion of their single player adventure mode. but it turned out to be raid shadow legends

them copying slay the spire would have gotten more money

>>714352519 (OP)
What the fuck is "Warcraft Rumble"?