World of Battleships renamed to World of Warships

Michael Dunaway
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Wargaming, the company behind the extremely popular World of Tanks, announced today that they would be changing the title of their upcoming naval title World of Battleships, to just World of Warships. "The company is gearing up, and so are its titles," said Victor Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming. "In addition to more accurately reflecting the game's core essence, World of Warships™ will correspond more closely to the framework of our Wargaming universe."

While we wont deny that World of Warships certainly has a better ring to it then World of Battleships, there is a question when it comes to how this will be abbreviated. Wargaming's first title in the series, World of Tanks has adopted the abbreviation WoT among its fans. With World of Warplanes currently in closed beta one can assume it will adopt a similarly abbreviated name such as WoW, and although World of Battleships' abbreviation may have been a tad silly to say out loud "Hey want to try out WoB?" at least it would still be unique. What do you think of the name change? Is it too close to World of Warplanes? How would you abbreviate it? Let us know in the comments.

World of Warships is scheduled to set sail sometime in 2013

You can check out the official World of Warships site here http://worldofwarships.com/ for more information.

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Michael Dunaway
Michael Dunaway, News Editor

Michael Dunaway has been part of the MMOBomb team for years and has covered practically every major Free-to-Play MMO title since 2009.

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Discussion (26)

Captain Crash 11 years ago
Sjeez, you all are talking about nothing. I just wanna know when it really comes out.
Robert319 12 years ago
WoA . . . . WoT? . . . WoW!! . . . . pretty silly to me.

World of Airplanes, World of Tanks, World of Warships . . .

WoW will always refer to World of Warcraft.
Jellopy 12 years ago
The name doesn't really make a huge difference but the fact that two of their games will be most likely referred to as 'wow' by many is kinda an odd choice being all under the same company banner. And there is the factor of the other 'wow' becoming a bit of confusion when referring to what game you are paying. Anyone who thinks about it though will probably call world of warships 'wows' since warships can be divided into two words meaning the same thing so there you have it.
Shut Up 12 years ago
i am sorry but i would like to ask all of you haters to shut up and get to the question originally asked?? Thank you.
Mitkosa333 12 years ago
TWENTH
Tobbe 12 years ago
World of warships is that not WOW? :)
Amanoh 12 years ago
WOW!!!!! Wargaming.net are "on a roll" I think that expression is used so....first WOT, later Word of warplanes, and now Word of warships, i would like to see those all together.

Play 2 win power!!!!
DougJunior 12 years ago
WoT, is Trash, World of Warplanes is Trash, and what you think they produce next??
He cant make other than Trash, show the Video or play the closed Beta from WOWp and you can see it.
And WoT is pay2win, or farme to win, you take what you want, but to many noobs have by to high tanks and cant can drive them.
The game have switch from a simulation to a low lvl arcade game.
Not even better development than WoW.
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ki11joyace 12 years ago
I can't wait for WoWS. Also, WoT no P2W. You can get gold rounds from clan wars, which is where gold rounds are mostly used. Premium tanks are not overpowered, they are matched with tanks their level, they just get a higher credit pay out per match. You can pay to get to higher tiers, but since tier 3 tanks are matched with other similar tiers, not high end tier 10s, getting a higher level does not equal power. I love this about Wargaming's games.
heroofrome 12 years ago
premium tanks are used to get money, not for clan wars
james 12 years ago
anyone notice its world of planes trailer?

and the website You can check out the official World of Warships site here http://na.worldofwarplanes.com/ for more information.

ROFL good article

the right website http://worldofwarships.com/ and trailer.
Curst 12 years ago
Allright, getting back to the original topic... How can we differentiate abbreviations World of Warships and World of Warplanes? Well, it's simple. World of Warplanes is being called WoWP by it's internal testers and alpha testers since the beginning of the project. And World of Warships = "WoWS". Easy as that...

I think they WANTED to make it's name similar to World of Warplanes. Or they may change name of World of Warplanes soon as well. You know, they wanted to call it World of Planes at first, but there was another game in development that had just that name. First it was "World of Planes", now it's "War Thunder: World of Planes".
Dubator 12 years ago
They should name it World of Pay2win...
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fogo31 12 years ago
WoB to me just sounds like dubstep.

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