{"id":125995,"date":"2022-08-04T09:17:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T07:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=125995"},"modified":"2022-08-04T09:18:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T07:18:33","slug":"world-of-warcraft-mobile-game-cancelled-3-years-into-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/125995-world-of-warcraft-mobile-game-cancelled-3-years-into-development","title":{"rendered":"World of Warcraft mobile game cancelled &#8211; 3 years into development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/455359-blizzard-kills-off-mobile-warcraft-game-in-development-for-3-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bloomberg reports<\/strong><\/a> that Blizzard has cancelled its upcoming World of Warcraft mobile game.<\/p>\n<p>The game, codenamed Neptune, had been in development for three years and was to be a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) set in the World of Warcraft universe.<\/p>\n<p>However, a disagreement over terms between Blizzard and co-developer NetEase has reportedly stopped the project in its tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg sources claim that a team of over 100 NetEase developers working on the project has been disbanded, and not all of these developers were offered internal transfers.<\/p>\n<p>NetEase and Activision Blizzard both declined to comment to Bloomberg on the report.<\/p>\n<p>The reported cancellation of Neptune has raised fresh concerns over Blizzard&#8217;s relationship with NetEase &#8211; a partnership that gives Blizzard the ability to operate effectively in the huge Chinese mobile gaming market.<\/p>\n<p>NetEase publishes a variety of Blizzard&#8217;s gaming franchises in the country, and was a co-developer on Blizzard&#8217;s Diablo Immortal mobile game &#8211; which despite criticisms over its monetization model, has a major commercial success<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a title=\"Permalink to Hogwarts Legacy release date leaked\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/125972-hogwarts-legacy-release-date-leaked\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hogwarts Legacy release date leaked<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has reportedly cancelled its upcoming World of Warcraft mobile game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":93033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[635],"class_list":["post-125995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125996,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125995\/revisions\/125996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}