"Blizzard is planning significant updates to its World of Warcraft franchise in 2022

"Blizzard is planning significant updates to its World of Warcraft franchise in 2022, including fresh experiences for World of Warcraft , and getting brand-new game-based mobile World of Warcraft content into players for the very first timeever," The report states.

New "mobile World of Warcraft content WOTLK Gold " is expected to be released by 2022 according to Activision Blizzard's financial results for the fourth quarter of 2021 report. While it seems safe to suppose it'll be an World of Warcraft mobile game, the exact wording keeps things a bit hazy.

"Blizzard is planning significant updates to its World of Warcraft franchise in 2022, including fresh experiences for World of Warcraft , and getting brand-new game-based mobile World of Warcraft content into players for the very first timeever," The report states.

In terms of what "mobile World of Warcraft content" will be about is anyone's guess. This isn't the only time Activision Blizzard has discussed World of Warcraft on mobile during an earnings call. In 2021, an earnings conference mentioned two free-to play World of Warcraft mobile games were in the process that were in "advanced creation" and will enable "fans to take a journey through World of Warcraft in a completely new way. World of Warcraft universe in completely novel ways." It should be noted that the reports specifically refer to the games for mobile devices being " World of Warcraft " games, they are not " World of Warcraft ," therefore, don't anticipate Blizzard's MMO to launch on phones anytime soon.

World of Warcraft has technically used "mobile content" prior to. In the past, with WoW updates, gamers were able to utilize the game's mobile app to earn more in-game resources, or play minigames that involved leveling up followers and sending them out on missions. World of Warcraft , Blizzard's most popular World of Warcraft -themed card game, is now available on mobile devices.

It's the World of Warcraft franchise originally began as real-time strategy games. However that was not the case with the current game to fit that format was 2002's World of cheap WOW WOTLK Classic Gold Warcraft. It's unclear whether a World of Warcraft mobile game will be able to embrace the series' strategy roots or take a different direction.