World of Warcraft has its own Fortnite in its guts, how?

World of Warcraft celebrates in 2024 neither more nor less than 20 years of existence, since it was in 2004 that the American brand arrived to revolutionize the genre of MMORPG. Today, when two decades have passed, since Snow storm They let themselves be loved by a fashion that has triumphed for years now and it is that of battle royaledefraud Fortnite in the head. Do you know what happened?

The bone battle royale It is one of the genres that attracts the most fans and the one that gave birth to what is the great playable phenomenon of the last decade: Fortnite. So in Snow storm, who claim to go about their business without being influenced by anyone, it is surprising that they succumbed to the temptation to have developed something like that, in the heat of their World of Warcraft

but without this being an essential element of your MMO. So now we have it here.

A separate development of World of Warcraft

The fact is that Snow storm It looks like it’s going to release, when patch 10.2.6 is released, something called Looting Stormwhich will be nothing more than an extra step that they called a game mode PvEvP, that is to say fighting against the environment but also against other actors, so that it will be a sort of free-for-all to see who will be the last one standing. In other words, what was a battle royale.

What’s curious about this Looting Storm it’s that Snow storm He didn’t say anything until it was practically a reality, so he caught everyone off guard. Only those very close to the study knew of its existence and that, moreover, it would not be an appendix or a leg linked to World of Warcraft

, but an independent extra that would even have its own servers. So it was born as a kind of Fortnite within the MMO with independent access, as you can see in the screen you have just below, where two logos appear (above) depending on the title we want to play.

What’s more, in Looting Storm don’t expect to play with your carbonize of World of Warcraft, those of you who have progressed or obtained levels and spectacular weapons. in this battle royale of Snow storm The thing will have to be done, as in many other versions of the genre, with a character that we will manipulate raw, obtaining the combat tools during the battle and allowing us, at most, to add cosmetics, objects or things like that from the looks of it. .

At Blizzard, they kept the secret

The development remained completely secret and generated a lot of passion within the studio. In statements to PC Gamer, some members admitted that “everyone in Snow storm “They came together to playtest and give feedback.” “We’re really focused on trying to break the rules. We really want to give players something super exciting, especially experimental, before the release of The internal war“.

But the expansion coming in the near future was not enough incentive and they wanted to add more. Looting Storm which, they acknowledge, “if people go to social media or create forum posts to show how excited they are about the skills of the Looting Storm“This might be something we hope to bring to the game in the future.” So it’s time to try yes or yes, right?