The update was poorly recieved by the community, which percieved that the problems the update was supposed to fix were actually made worse (i.e. In January 2019, the game recieved a major update that radically changed the gameplay of the aircraft carrier class (known in-game as 'CV'), shifting from a top-down view in which the player gives directions to the airplanes squadrons similarly to a real-time strategy game, to a third-person view in which the player directly controls and aims with the airplanes weapons. A console version of the game, called World of Warships Legends was released on august 12th, 2019 for Playstation and XBox systems. Console and Mobile portsĪ version of the game developped for mobile devices, called World of Warships Blitz was officially released on january 18th, 2018 for iOS and Android devices. The game was later released on Steam on november 15th, 2017. The game, who was renamed to World of Warships in 2012, went into alpha testing phase in 2013, then on open beta in july 2015, for a final release on September 17th, 2015.

The developpement lead was given to Wargaming's office in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The game was meant to be a sequel or spin-off franchise to World of Tanks, and use the same mechanics than its predecessor and the less successful World of Warplanes. In august 2011, Wargaming announced the developpement of then titled World of Battleships during the europan Gamescom convention in Cologne, Germany.

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