Netease was seemingly co-developing a Warcraft mobile MMORPG with Blizzard, but the project has been canceled due to a financial dispute.
According to Bloomberg, Netease recently split up a team of more than 100 developers that were working on a mobile title set in the Warcraft universe. Codenamed Neptune, the project was in development for three years — and it wasn’t a direct port of World of Warcraft either. Instead, this spinoff would be built from the ground up for smartphones. It’s worth noting Warcraft Arclight Rumble, another smartphone game, isn’t what was canceled here.