Blizzard Reportedly Cancels World of Warcraft Mobile Game
The World of Warcraft mobile game expected to launch later this year has apparently been canceled.
As Bloomberg reports(Opens in a new window), the project, which was codenamed "Neptune," was in development for three years through a partnership with Chinese company NetEase. It was expected to be a mobile MMO set within a different time period of the Warcraft universal. However, the development team of more than 100 people has now been shut down, with only some of those continuing to be employed and assigned to other projects at NetEase.
NetEase is a long-time partner of Blizzard, acting as publisher for the company's games in China, as well as co-creating free-to-play title Diablo Immortal. According to a person familiar with the World of Warcraft mobile game deal, Blizzard and NetEase disagreed on financial terms, and clearly a resolution couldn't be found. For now, neither Blizzard or NetEase are commenting on the matter.
The disagreement must have been serious for Blizzard to decide to throw away three years of work on a game that was guaranteed to be extremely popular. It also makes little sense when you consider they successfully managed to ship Diablo Immortal together, which is now generating millions of dollars in revenue.
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