I don’t know if the intention is to eventually make the horizontal scroll only show “high priority” news articles, but right now it’s a waste of space.įun fact: I keep crashing out the App if I try to scroll too far down the list of news articles! I wonder what’s so devastating from July that my phone doesn’t want me to read it? It’s a bit wonky in the presentation, though: the top third of the screen is taken up by an automated horizontal scroll of news articles that has the same content as the scrollable vertical preview of news articles below it. The news option is similar to the loading screen, although you can now read the full article within the App. Social and calendar work the same as before, although it appears it’s not synched to your communities in-game so you’ll need to add them manually until such time that Blizzard fixes this. There are now four functions across the top: News, Social, Expansion, and Calendar. When it does finish loading, the first main difference you’ll see is below your character name. How does the update compare to the original? In case you were wondering, the load time both into the App and switching characters does not appear to be substantially reduced with this update, so if you were annoyed by it before, you’ll continue to be annoyed. You can’t navigate from the loading screen, so you’re just seeing short headlines and a small blurb, but if you are genuinely interested in more information we’ll cover the news function shortly. The first thing you notice upon logging in is that as the App loads you are treated to a scrollable feed of the latest news. Now live and working - at least when the servers are working - let’s take a look at what the Companion App can do for us. Fortunately, Blizzard has a plan for our resources, and that’s to give the WoW Companion App access to multiple expansions in the latest update. it is the authentic X com experience really.Now that the Battle for Azeroth has ended and Sylvanas is out and about kidnapping faction leaders, it’s time to reflect on all the war resources we’ve earned and wonder what the heck we’re going to do with them in Shadowlands. In all its annoying missing at 95% to hit, point blank with a shotgun glory. Well good chance its going to be decent game. So here is the safe way to pick a mobile game.ĭoes it charge $20 up front vice nickel and diming you? I got the Xcom 2’s 2k put out for my ipad years back. Why I as consumer…I make that personal choice not to do most mobile gaming. Played it on free plays in xbox…much better on pc (what isn’t, I know). its got the assassin class in leather/latex looking outfits…3 checks. Made a seasonal char since…why the hell not. No pressure even to even buy the store credit. Like $20? many hours of enjoyment to come there. Like me…I got wh40K Inquisitor the whole big shenbang (all DLC) on steam sale. Will for some will you hit the oh…coma back in 4 hours reset? Yes. will you be the “best” (as if that matters in mobile gaming unless a streamer)? No. The kicker is they keep on going about a “free” mobile game. Right now Diablo Immoral is not doing well at all, and everything hinges entirely on how it does in China World of Warcraft is probably much more profitable than that, each subscriber gives $15/month + $50/expansion + all the various transaction fees for tokens, server/faction transfers, cosmetic shop purchases, etc. $49 million per month sounds like a lot but it really isn’t that much money when you consider that Apple/Google skims 30% of that cash, and that number is boosted by being a brand new game. So in the end it is really hurting Blizzard’s profits. The mobile game whales are going to still spend huge money even if it only gives a minor power increase, and the average players would be collectively spending far more if the microtransactions were better balanced. Making the game obscenely pay-to-win and broadly unpopular badly hurts their profits. They should care though, because they could raked in far more money if they had balanced the microtransactions better. In the end, I doubt Blizz really cares how badly their metacritic reviews gets bombed for D:I, Shadow Lands, or Dragon Flight if everyone is just going to keep throwing cash at them
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