Blizzard Leisure is planning to accumulate Proletariat, the developer behind Spellbreak, a battle-royale wizard shooter. The corporate revealed yesterday that the sport is about to close down early 2023, and as we speak, VentureBeat reported that Blizzard is in search of to develop its growth groups with this buy.
Proletariat’s 100 workers will likely be becoming a member of Blizzard Leisure, particularly its World of Warcraft group, to help with Dragonflight. Whereas this is not nice information for followers of Spellbreak, a minimum of the group has secured work.
What this acquisition might imply for WoW
Everything of Proletariat’s employees being moved to work on WoW: Dragonflight is not one thing to scoff at. Contemplating World of Warcraft’s group is reported to be anyplace from 100-300 individuals in keeping with a GameInformer interview with Allen Adham, growing that quantity by an additional hundred is large. This variation might counsel many optimistic outcomes, however lets set some expectations earlier than going off the hopeful deep finish.
That many individuals might work as a assist group to iron out bugs or polish up the content material that is already there. On the very least, it is unlikely {that a} group enhance of this measurement could be detrimental. Nonetheless, what’s extra seemingly is that the members that make up Proletariat’s present employees will proceed engaged on the issues they have been doing with Spellbreak.
Designers proceed designing, idea artists proceed illustrating, and coders maintain coding. Finest case state of affairs: this employees enhance might lead to bigger expansions, particularly after Shadowlands suffered a noticeable content material drought. It solely acquired two post-launch raids and one dungeon, making its closing measurement akin to Warlords of Draenor, which was infamous for its lack of content material.
World of Warcraft depends on its post-launch content material coming with semi-frequency to breathe life within the sport. If a group growth equivalent to this will assure yet one more main patch each growth, then it will actually be value it. Maybe we’ll even see expansions get bigger than even Legion was, providing over a dozen dungeons and greater than 5 raids over the course of its lifetime. However past that, I hope that a rise in group measurement like this leads to higher-quality content material.
