Blizzard is buying the development studio responsible for magical battle royaleSpellbreak, Proletariat, and moving their staff over to work onWorld Of Warcraft. The purveyors of all things Azeroth confirmed the buyout in a statement toVentureBeat. News of the acquisition comes just a day after Spellbreak’s imminent demise wasrevealedby Proletariat on the game’s website.
“Folks in World of Warcraft have a voracious appetite for content,” WOW’s general manager John Hight told Venturebeat, ”and what we’ve seen over the last year is that we need to increase the amount of content that we can create, and the frequency with which we’re putting it in the hands of our players.”
CEO of Proletariat Seth Sivak said that some of the earliest conversations his company had with Blizzard involved how the larger organisation was improving their culture. “Obviously, there is a lot of work to be done to continue to make an awesome place for developers to work,” Sivak said, “but we were pretty happy and satisfied with the direction that teams are going.”
Blizzard’s parent company Activision Blizzard are still dealing withlegal issuesandreportsalleging a discriminatory and harassing working environment. So far this year, Microsoft announced they are to acquire the company for$69 billion(£50 billion), and Blizzard Entertainment head Mike Ybarra has said he’scommitted to fostering change. Actiblizz’s shareholders recently voted tore-electCEO Bobby Kotick to the board of directors for another year, in spite of calls for his resignation fromemployees.
World Of Warcraft: Dragonflight will be available to download and play viaBattle.netlater this year for £40/$50/€50.
