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Warcraft Rumble is shifting into life-support mode following the latest round of layoffs at Microsoft, which appears to be targeting about 4% of the company’s workforce, or around 9000 employees.
In a post on Blizzard’s blog, the studio announced that the team behind Warcraft Rumble would “continue supporting Rumble with updates focused on regular, systemic in-game events and bug fixes, but no new content. ” An email sent to staff by Blizzard president Johanna Faires about the layoffs, which was received and reported on by Aftermath, reads, “As part of these changes, we made the difficult decision to shift to a scaled down, live ops-only phase of development for Warcraft Rumble, similar to our current approach with games like StarCraft II and Heroes of the Storm.”
Warcraft Rumble, a mobile tower defense game based on Blizzard’s popular Warcraft series, was released back in 2023 after nine years in development.According to this latest announcement though, Rumble “struggled to find its footing,” and despite feedback from the community and changes implemented by the team, the efforts weren’t enough to set the game on “a path to sustainability.”
As part of the cuts at Blizzard, Aftermath reports that the number of impacted employees could be “as high
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