The well-known streamer Asmongold has a somewhat different opinion on WoW mobile games. Because although many in the community do not like the idea of mobile games for WoW , he defends the idea. It could enrich the Warcraft franchise overall if the developers bring the right games. What exactly he means by that can be found out here on MeinMMO.
Who is it about? The famous streamer Asmongold was for a long time the biggest WoW streamer on the internet. For many years he played World of Warcraft, but with Shadowlands, he first lost interest and played other games like Final Fantasy XIV or Lost Ark.
Nevertheless, he keeps checking in on WoW and has a clear opinion on various occurrences there. This includes an assessment of the recently announced mobile projects from Blizzard.
What did he say? In a stream that, curiously, took place in a shaky treehouse during strong winds, Asmongold talked about mobile games in the Warcraft franchise. Because in early February, Blizzard announced in a quarterly report that they are working on several mobile games in the Warcraft world.
Asmongold fundamentally sees this positively.
I know that there are some of you who might be upset about this. You do not like it. But I am actually glad that [WoW mobile games] are coming. I am glad that they want to make a mobile game related to World of Warcraft.
Mobile games can expand the community
What are his arguments? However, Asmongold does not want a cheap WoW cash grab game that is pay-to-win or a one-to-one implementation of the MMORPG on smartphones. “No one should be able to run a Mythic raid on a phone,” the streamer says.
Rather, he is into spin-off games that fit into the overall experience of WoW. He could imagine something like a tower defense game that has a clear WoW reference.
What is officially known? This is also supported by the fact that, although Asmongold talks about WoW games, the report from Blizzard only mentions “Warcraft games.” So it seems likely that they are actually more likely to be spin-off games in the Warcraft world and not a fully ported WoW version for mobile like on PC.
However, this is still all speculation at the moment, as officially we only know that several mobile games related to Warcraft are planned for 2022. Whether these will even be released in 2022 or only further developed this year is also left open by the report.
Nevertheless, mobile is probably a platform that Blizzard takes seriously, as the current success of Diablo Immortal suggests.
