Blizzard Announces New Expansions And A 'Warcraft' Mobile Game, Repeating History And Angering It's Fanbase

Yesterday, Blizzard's official Twitter account tweeted an image that depicted the dates for upcoming press events, with each date being the formal announcement of an upcoming expansion or game. The closest event (taking place on March 15th) is the announcement of the newest Hearthstone expansion, with April 19th (the next World of Warcraft expansion) being the big-ticket item.

The next expansion is on the horizon.

Join us. April 19.

✨ https://t.co/u5mEMf2WYj pic.twitter.com/dOIyAFBjcM

— World of Warcraft (@Warcraft) March 7, 2022

Surprisingly, the thing that most fans latched onto from the tweet was the planned release for May, when a mobile game for Warcraft is set to be revealed that was previously unknown to fans.

Too late. We already know pic.twitter.com/wJ2gRQFIYq

— Zack (@Asmongold) March 7, 2022

“…we're preparing to get the first game in the Warcraft Universe designed for mobile into your hands. We will tell you more about it in May.”

Y’all hyped? On a scale of reforged (0.5) to wc3 original (10) how good do you think it’s going to be? Ima go with 5

— Grubby (@followgrubby) March 8, 2022

“we're preparing to get the first game in the Warcraft Universe designed for mobile into your hands”. Meanwhile…
(Image creds Andrew Bissell on facebook, 😏😉) pic.twitter.com/Et80d48geq

— Ben Hearthstone (@ben_heathstone) March 7, 2022

While many fans of the series were quick to attack the company for its horrific Warcraft 3: Reforged blunder of a game release and how a mobile game being released means that development time being spent fixing Warcraft 3 is unlikely, the biggest source of complaints came from WoW fans, who had the last cinematics of their expansion come out recently, ending the arc of the Jailer and setting up for the next event to hit the game.

The overwhelming majority of players discussing the MMORPG online were annoyed that the Jailer, who was barely expounded upon at all throughout the expansion, was turned into a Sargeras 2.0 with a flimsy explanation for his events and a cryptic warning of future events on the horizon, for seemingly the ninth time in the game's history.

All of Azeroth and the WoW community on this, the day the Jailer, most underwhelming and generic Villain ever written, died.

May we never speak of him again. pic.twitter.com/gzJ0g0ZKK4

— Alice the Purple Fiend | Drake (@AliceThePurple) March 8, 2022

Imagine if the Jailer like

told us about fucking any of this? Told his friends literally anything about why he's doing this shit?

Why is he just Sargeras, again, but stupid and unable to speak out basic motivations. Is this just something villains have to do now? pic.twitter.com/17yGXY7bBZ

— Portergauge 💙🏳️‍🌈 (@Portergauge) March 8, 2022

You see the Jailer was evil because he wanted to unionize

— v'rynn (@valarynn) March 8, 2022

me: "I dont need a warcraft mobile game I dont even like mobile games"

Also me: "fuck but what if its a go kart game…"

— Kor'kron Fanboy (@KorkronFanboy) March 7, 2022