Hello Classmates,
Yet another amazing week while playing World of Warcraft. I fee like this has been a great experience with so many different kinds of people. I’ve been having fun leveling and meeting new friends and learning more and more about the game and my guild.
This week we are to locate a news article that talks about our topic. The article that I’ve found is about World of Warcraft wanting to make a mobile game. As I’ve recently found out World of Warcraft already has a mobile application for things such as guild chat, auction house and checking your characters gear.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17456453
At this time it shows World of Warcraft has actually declined in users since 2010 by about 2 million players. Per this article it shows that World of Warcraft has many competitors such as: Starcraft, Star Wars: The Old Republic and now Diablo 3.
I’m not to sure how much an online application that gives you the ability to play would bring people back to the game or keep the interested. If they were to do this as a free item a lot of people would love it and jump on the band wagon. At least the hardcore gamers that still play World of Warcraft would. It also explained how some people are using tablets to play the game instead of a pc. I wonder how that actually affects game play because its so graphics intense and I could never play without a mouse to move my character.
Going forward for the game I think having a mobile application where you can actually play might be cool. It also could have a downfall such as kids that play the game that have cell phones in high school might pay less attention to their teachers and more attention to this application during class. This would could lead to bad press for Blizzard (maker of World of Warcraft). But for other people that can go without playing the game for a while it might be fun for them. Maybe people are on vacation but what to see what their friends are up to can actually go on and browse around and play a few rounds of PVP or PVE with their in game friends.
I’m wondering if the next expansion or maybe the release of this mobile application how many people will either leave or come back to the game. Personally I hope it brings people back to the game then it might be more enjoyable with tons more people.
Until next time classmates!
Megan Granger
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17456453
Hey Megan,
ReplyDeleteThat article is really cool but also kind of frustrating to someone like me who considers himself a "hardcore" gamer. I think that while it is noble to try and bring new demographics into a game like World of Warcraft, I feel like if they would focus on new content and also listen to there core base of gamers on developing the new content and what they would like to see, I think that they would have a better chance at holding on to their user-base.
Great post!
Miles Swanson
First off, great post. Secondly I have to agree with Miles, to make people want to return to WoW they need to add new content which doesn't make players feel they are basically doing the exact same thing from the last expansion. They need new adventures.
ReplyDeleteNow as a person who was a "hardcore" gamer at one time, and played WoW for many years to put WoW on mobile devices seems strange.