Blizzard Acquires Spellbreak Developer Proletariat To Work On World Of Warcraft

Yesterday, Spellbreak developer Proletariat released a blog post detailing the future of its spell-based battle royale that launched years ago. It revealed that Spellbreak servers will be down early in 2023. Thus, it effectively ended the current battle royale. 

This shutdown likely had to do with the game’s low player count. According to a report by Blizzard Entertainment (the studio that created Warcraft and Overwatch), Proletariat is being acquired and its roughly 100-strong workforce will be used to augment its World of Warcraft staff. GamesBeat. 

“We are putting players at the forefront of everything we do, and we are working hard to both meet and exceed their expectations,” Blizzard president Mike Ybarra told the publication in a statement. “A big part of caring for our teams is making sure we have the resources to produce experiences our communities will love while giving our teams space to explore even more creative opportunities within their projects. Proletariat is a perfect fit for supporting Blizzard’s mission in bringing high-quality content to our players more often.” 

The news is just months ahead of Dragonflight’s launch as the latest expansion to World of Warcraft. You can find more information about it here. This was noted by GamesBeatThis is Blizzard’s largest acquisition to date. This purchase means that the Proletariat team will be under the Microsoft-Xbox umbrella soon following the completion of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

The following is an extract from the GamesBeat report, the purpose of this acquisition is to beef up World of Warcraft staff numbers so “that it can hit quality and timing goals for expansions.” Neither of the involved parties has publicly released a price for this transaction.

[Source: GamesBeat]