Multi-user online games week 3

    We all remember the enjoyable days of playing Warcraft sci-fi spin-off that inspired numerous imitations and development of modern gaming. Warcraft as we know consists of several expansions and basically it is a strategy game Blizzard's first creation. The success of Warcraft made Blizzard the most successful developer of gaming industry. Many of you maybe heard about eSports and unfished competition between millions of players worldwide. Well the funding would be without Blizzard.

    Lets move on to next stage of Warcraft's creation. This is the period when strategy games were gaining the power of mainstream and gatherings tons of users daily making gaming enjoyable. But the birth of World Of Warcraft was beyond fantasy, It was actually the real world with magic creatures and dungeons and raids for players. Thousands of quests with exciting stories. It actually started in 1994, with Warcraft's :Orcs and Humans predecessor of World of Warcraft's first expansion "World of Warcraft Classic" in multiplayer mode start of MMORPG era.

    MMORPG for those who are hearing it for the first time means massive multiplayer online role-playing game. Player chooses a character and customizes it by his or her taste and goes into sci-fi world. Interacts with other players and evolve throughout the game. MMORPG worldwide revenues are increasing daily even in 2014 World of Warcraft's revenue was $1.04 billion US dollars.

    The birth of multiplayer was very important for other games also StarCraft for example . Initially it was very similar to Warcraft, Patrick Wyatt, Blizzard's former Vice President of Research and Development, describes StarCraft as "Orcs in space", it ran on the same code as Warcraft II. The company was gaining more and more resources every year and the industry of gaming was expanding also. In South Korea people started to create tournaments for online matchmakings. As I mentioned previously, without Blizzard funding nowadays one of the most popular games League Of Legends, Dota II, and mobile games such as Plants Vs Zombies, Clash Royale etc would not be as popular. Mentioning mobile games thanks to World's editor tower defense games became very popular. Moreover MOBA genre became very prominent also in 5 years both in mobile and PC gaming. So thinking about gaming we all should thank to Blizzard and its' innovation in gaming industry.

 Resources: https://www.denofgeek.com/games/warcraft-the-most-influential-game-franchise-of-all-time/

https://www.referralcandy.com/blog/world-of-warcraft-marketing-strategy/

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/

https://www.mmorpg.com/


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