Good news for those of you who haven’t checked out The Witcher Battle Arena in one of its many pre-release forms yet: the free-to-play MOBA will be available worldwide on Thursday on both iOS and Android. The game has been kicking around in beta and soft launches for the past few months, and it looks like the game is finally ready for primetime. CD Projekt RED, publishers of the game and of other Witcher video games, are claiming this one won’t have pay-to-win mechanics, with mostly cosmetic items available.
It’ll be interesting to see how this game does. No MOBA has quite figured out the formula for mobile success despite Dota, League of Legends, and other games being wildly successful as free-to-play games. Vainglory (Free) has had a huge Apple television marketing campaign, but is a non-starter on the grossing charts. Does this game have the mojo to crack the formula for success? It’ll be interesting to see, though whether this one can stand up to the high bar that Vainglory and even Fates Forever (Free) have created for mobile MOBAs is also going to be an interesting test.
