AdventureQuest 3D Throws A Jab At Blizzard Over Canceled Warcraft Mobile Game

Artix Entertainment has taken advantage of the murmurings surrounding the cancellation of Blizzard’s Warcraft mobile game by shamelessly tooting the horn of its own multi-platform MMORPG, AdventureQuest 3D.

“When we saw the news articles about World of Warcraft being canceled we just felt terrible,” wrote the devs. “It was obvious that the market share of AdventureQuest 3D (our already live 3D, cross-platform, free, not-pay-to-win, MMORPG) would have cost them a potential loss of players in the double, perhaps even triple digits.”

“AdventureQuest 3D has often been compared to World of Warcraft. But in a sea of Chinese WoW knock-offs, ours was made right here in the USA,” the studio added.

“As a long-time fan and player of World of Warcraft, I was disheartened to hear the news. Hindsight being 20/22 it was a strategic and wise move,” Artix CEO Adam Bohn joked. “With our 20th anniversary coming this October and the launch of the mobile version of our 2D AdventureQuest Worlds game… their marketing efforts would have been completely drown out by the frenzy of cheers from the 5 or so people who actually tweet nice things at me on Twitter. So until Blizzard builds a massively multiplayer game for mobile, there is at least one MMO you should be playing. And if the servers for that one are down, try AdventureQuest 3D.”

Seems that bad publicity is still publicity regardless if it was your own.