Today on Headline
RePLAY: Blizzard acknowledged that Star
Wars: The Old Republic impacted World
of Warcraft’s subscription numbers, World
of Warcraft may go mobile and Capcom is on the hunt for Street Fighter X Tekken hackers.
In a rather candid
discussion with Eurogamer, Senior World
of Warcraft Producer John Lagrave acknowledged that Star Wars: The Old Republic impacted the MMO’s subscription
numbers.
“Of course people are
trying Star Wars—our development team
are trying Star Wars!” Lagrave told
Eurogamer. “I’m one of the few people who’s still playing it actually, but yeah
we’ve seen a dip in subs. It certainly has to at least be attributable to The Old Republic, but it’s also
attributable to people who want to wait and get Mists of Pandaria, so it’s not
surprising.
Lagrave dismissed any
ideas for World of Warcraft to switch
from a subscription business model to free-to-play. However, the senior
producer is open to extending the level cap for the free trial, which currently
stands at level 20.
While Blizzard has not
released any new subscription numbers since The
Old Republic’s launch in late December 2011, the company has begun an
aggressive campaign to re-enlist former subscribers in the form of a buffed up Scroll of Resurrection program.
*Source: Eurogamer
The full World of Warcraft experience may be
coming to an iPhone or mobile devices near you. Already there are some parts of
Blizzard’s behemoth MMO on mobile devices like access to character sheets, the Auction
House and guilds via the World of Warcraft Armory app.
Except it’s easier
said than done, Senior World of Warcraft
Producer John Lagrave conceded.
“Here’s your platform
[iPhone], you’ve got to put an interface, what do you do? So yes we have
[looked into mobile] and we always are,” Lagrave told Eurogamer. “Maybe we’ll
stumble on the great way to put WoW on the phone - maybe we won’t, but we're
certainly looking into it.
“We won’t do it until
we think it's decent,” the senior producer continued. “But it’s interesting and
the world is evolving towards that little handheld device—I’d have fun on it,
that’s absolutely the case. It would be foolish for any game developer to not
be looking at that and we’re not - we don’t think—we’re
foolish!”
“When we have an
epiphany, everyone will know,” said Lagrave. “But for now, no epiphany!”
*Source: Eurogamer
All forum user Razum wanted
was to sit down and play Street Fighter X
Tekken online, which was promptly ruined when he encountered Blanka—a DLC
character that wasn’t even supposed to be available yet. Apparently, hackers
were unlocking DLC characters and using them in online bouts. Capcom is vowing
to track down and ban the hackers.
“Yes, we’re seeing
news of this. Quite ballsy for folks to be taking hacked Xbox 360s on Live
where they are detectable,” confirmed Christian Svensson, Capcom’s senior VP of
strategic planning and business development.
“In any event, we
already have opened channels of communication with MS on these issues Friday
night,” reported Svensson. “If you can capture screens or video of this in
action (as some have already) we're working on bans for boxes and accounts with
MS for haxxors.”
When the thread
devolved to mockery at Capcom, Svensson closed the thread and resolutely said, “We’ll
catch them ourselves.”
*Source: Capcom-Unity
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