After the disastrous PR nightmare that came after Blizzard banned Hearthstone player blitzchung for supporting the Hong Kong protests, WoW's PTR has updated with content fans have been demanding for months.
Gravemaster writes: "Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire is a successful franchise, but it hasn’t had much luck when it comes to video games. Many were released, but only the one from Telltale games received more or less recognition and it was cancelled after one season anyway. Now, we have news of another Game of Thrones game in development."
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth publisher Square Enix has declared a $140m loss based on a shakeup of its internal development pipeline.
What are they doing over there? Sounds like they canceled something big. I read a rumor a while back about ff9 remake . Here "Final Fantasy IX has gone through a very challenging development, the game is still in progress but may undergo changes drastic enough that we won't hear about it for a couple of years."
This could be one of the reasons if the rumor is true. That was Silknight i don't know how credible he is but it's something and it would make sense.
The industry implosion is continuing. Sky high budgets, prolonged development windows, stagnant sales numbers, and falling currency values (inflation) are wreaking havoc on the legacy industry. AAA games will slowly become the rarity.
- Xbox Wire - Mark your calendars! The Xbox Games Showcase followed by [REDACTED] Direct airs June 9. More info inside.
For a brief moment I thought we might get a whole Direct for Gears 6 - seems like it's COD though!
Oof blizzard
Trying to win users back with some good ol' LK eh? I wonder if it will work? I do have some very fond memories of WotLK.
No matter what Blizzard have in store, it's going to be overshadowed by the controversy. Their actions and their pro China tweet go beyond just regular controversy, even beyond their out of season April Fools jokes. Still, the drama at Blizzcon should be entertaining at least.
Such a weird article. Starts with talking about the player being banned for supporting the protests then turns left and talks about the possibility of a Lich King expansion. No connection whatsoever. And I’m still not clear as to the role DX member X-pac has.
Can we not paint developers with the same brush as executive assholes, I stand with Hong Kong, but when you get nothing from Blizz and you've got wow ptr updates behind the scenes It's not them pushing quick throw smoke clouds, that won't work on this controversy.
Stepping outside the controversy, I've not played bfa since launch, I'm not committed to spending sub fee to grind out brick walls to unlock new races, this new direction of drip-feeding content can gtfo.
You can have 1 piece of gear and it'll have 6 difficulty versions of that exact piece, ONTOP of that rng titanforged 15+ ilvls.
Stepping into the controversy, this silence will do them no good, this will not just "die down" like the mobile outrage, this is human rights & as a company regardless of the platform they attempted to silence one individual & look at the explosion of justified rage, nearing 2020 and we as a planet can't combat global warming + humanitarian issues & poverty.