WoW still has 6.8 million subscribers, and it seems unlikely it is going to dip to a point where it’s no longer financially viable at least for the next few years. That forms a major concern for Blizzard: do you launch WoW 2 alongside the original game? Do you link the two together or keep them completely separate? And what exactly is WoW 2 if it’s like the ever-expanding first game but also different enough to be a completely new game? WoW has loads of content, races, and features. You couldn’t do a WoW 2 without quite a bit of overlap. One of the biggest selling features would need to be a brand new, up-to-date engine, but then at the same time you don’t want an almost exact copy of the content appearing in this second game. World of Warcraft 2 is a very difficult prospect because of that, and it’s probably a large part of the reason we haven’t seen it appear. It seems much more likely and easier to do an MMO that’s completely separate, for example, the Titan IP Blizzard has been working on for several years. Even that seems problematic, though, with a reboot happening recently and no sign it will ever become a real game. For now, if you enjoy World of Warcraft just keep on playing. We won’t be seeing a WoW 2 anytime soon if at all. Fortnite is so big that we’re frankly bored of reperating how big it is. Epic constantly cranks away at the battle royale to make sure it makes all the money in the world, but what if they’ve already achieved that goal? What’s next? Well the latest event may give us the answer. With its Borderlands crossover Fortnite uses its lofty perch to just straight-up promote other video games now. Fortnite X Mayhem is a new limited challenge included in Season X. In this Borderlands mashup players travel to a Rift Zone based on Pandora, the primary planet of Gearbox’s loot shooter. In Pandora you can spawn if a shield if you avoid getting hit. And you can get gear based on sassy robot Claptrap and the Psycho mascot.
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