It cannot be denied that Blizzard is very famous for its RTS and strategy games, with the appearance of famous monuments like Starcraft 2 or Warcraft being the most visible evidence. However, it seems that with strategic directions changing over time, this genre is gradually no longer the focus of Blizzard’s development campaign. Especially after the pretty bad remake of Warcraft 3 in 2023, things become even more tragic.
However, just recently, Blizzard has raised many fans’ expectations when it released Warcraft Rumble – a new RTS game on the mobile platform just one day before BlizzCon 2023. But it’s time to celebrate. Not long after its release, many people were discouraged when they realized that Warcraft Rumble hardly carried the spirit of its predecessors like Warcraft 3 or Starcraft 2. It’s essentially a free-to-play mobile game with dozens of microtransactions and just one purpose. That is to suck the blood of players and find ways to bring maximum profit to Blizzard.
In fact, the Warcraft Rumble project was introduced a long time ago and also received a lot of attention when many people thought that this could be a quality Warcraft Mobile version. But basically, the way Warcraft Rumble operates is much simpler. Players will collect units and generals and drop them into the deployment area through different actions and then sit still and watch them operate on their own. The difficulty level is not too high, the operations are extremely easy, making many people feel extremely disappointed. However, besides PvE campaigns, players can also interact and fight with friends through PvP campaigns or raids similar to World of Warcraft.
This doesn’t really make Blizzard fans happy. In the opinion of many people, the launch of Warcraft Rumble only proves Blizzard’s ambition to turn its major products into highly “blood-sucking” games like Diablo Immortal. or Hearthstone is doing.