Today is the 387th day of Blizzard's national server suspension. Welcome to continue to pay attention to the latest news of World of Warcraft, a large-scale online dating chat room game that is currently popular all over the world, and will soon have a national server.
Diablo 4 landed in XGP, this is the future of Warcraft, and it may also be the future of the national server
Today we take a look at Microsoft's recent moves and news that will affect the future of Blizzard games and World of Warcraft. First of all, this morning, Microsoft announced that Diablo 4 will officially arrive in XGP (Xbox GamePass) on March 28. This means that Microsoft has taken the first step in integrating Blizzard games.
The day before yesterday, Xiao O talked to you about Zhang Dong, the former head of NetEase, who talked about the future of Blizzard Battle.net, and he said that no matter how you look at it, there is no need for the battlenet client to exist, and it will soon be integrated into XGP and connected with XGP accounts. He expects this time to be about a year to a year and a half.
In this way, it is a huge trend for Blizzard games to gradually integrate into XGP in the future, like "World of Warcraft" If it enters XGP, it may mean that players do not need to renew the point card for World of Warcraft separately in the future, but just subscribe to Microsoft's XGP to play.
But now there is a big problem, that is, Microsoft's XGP has not been launched in China, unless XGP can also find the same domestic ** as Steam, otherwise the national server is still unusable.
In February, Microsoft just formed a new gaming team in China, which is responsible for Xbox, Activision and Blizzard. After the end of the acquisition, Microsoft's game layout is getting bigger and bigger, I wonder if it will make efforts to launch XGP in China together?
Since the end of last year, it has been rumored that NetEase and Blizzard have reunited, but there is no official news. And Microsoft's Xbox domestic ** is the Oriental Pearl, and last month there was indeed an uncle party who said that "there is a third party" who also wants to intervene, I don't know if it will be related to XGP.
Of course, according to the current news, NetEase's continued national service can be said to be a sure thing, and XGP may be a matter of the future.
Microsoft's all-device ambitions, the future possibilities of World of Warcraft
Another message. The day before yesterday, Microsoft Games CEO Phil Spencer and Xbox President Sarah Bond announced a big news at the internal staff meeting, that is, Xbox will launch "future hardware" and confirmed that a new game of "Call of Duty" will be launched in October this year.
Spencer showed employees that "every screen is an Xbox," which means that Xbox's strategy for the future will be multi-device and not just game consoles, but could be "one Xbox" on tablets, TV screens, monitors, and handheld devices.
World of Warcraft's support for Xbox controllers actually started in Shadowlands. Although in an interview the year before last, Ion Hazzikostas, director of Warcraft, said that the console version of World of Warcraft has not yet been developed, but the future of multi-device interoperability is definitely a big trend, and Microsoft's biggest focus is on the mobile terminal, and the landing of "World of Warcraft" on platforms other than PC is definitely a future development trend.