Blizzard CEO Drops Hints About New MMO

[uppitycracker]

so basically, he didn't drop a single hint at all... because, well, most of what he described there is the goal of any MMO.

 

[Richard Allen]

Ehhhhh I'm not that excited. I've been done with WoW for awhile. It was in it's prime during BC, when you needed crowd control for heroics. It was just all around more fun.

If you played the current expansion you would know that if your are in heroics at the appropriate gear level cc is mandatory. Even after out gearing many pulls still require cc.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

Ehhhhh I'm not that excited. I've been done with WoW for awhile. It was in it's prime during BC, when you needed crowd control for heroics. It was just all around more fun.

If you played the current expansion you would know that if your are in heroics at the appropriate gear level cc is mandatory. Even after out gearing many pulls still require cc.

Well that's pretty cool actually. I'm not going to pick the game back up though. I don't have the interest anymore, and I got hacked :/ But it's nice to see Blizz making a concerted effort to bring back the hardcore-ness that a lot of people missed from WOTLK.

 

[michael87cn]

Imagine if they made a free-to-play game running off microtransactions, it might make so much money that Kotick chokes to death on it all and the world would be saved from Activision.

I figured that they might try to make a console based MMO, that way they are eating in to the WoW target audience less. And with Activision having an unhealthy ability to publish games on such media and having enough cash to throw at Blizzard to make it happen, surely it isn't such a crazy idea?

Blizzard is pretty much afraid of consoles. They have no experience with them, and they are pretty vocal about their "PC only" philosophy. The chances of them developing their next MMO for consoles is about as equal as Half Life Episode 3 being made solely for the Wii. It just wouldn't make sense.

THOUGH, I personally would love 'Titan' to be for the Xbox 360 as, I can't afford a modern day gaming PC. (I'm still using my EverQuest PC I bought 8 years ago).

 

[damse]

anc[is]Aren't the Titans basically gods in Warcraft? So saying this isn't WoW2 is probably total BS

Titans were ancient greek pre-gods so can mean anything and nothing related to wow.

 

[Marowit]

"For me, playing with people that you know always deepens the engagement and connection,"

That's what she said...

Seriously though, if they focus too much on the social-networking aspect and try to make it into some stupid facebook/twitter abomination I'll throw my computer monitor.

 

[Vakz]

Of course, I'm only guessing, but the line "The new game will focus on social features like guilds and friends lists, but also competitive PvP." does sound to me that they are going to make it somewhat casual.

 

[michael87cn]

Of course, I'm only guessing, but the line "The new game will focus on social features like guilds and friends lists, but also competitive PvP." does sound to me that they are going to make it somewhat casual.

The thing that I find funny is, they regretted putting arenas into WoW, and they hated having to balance all of the class skills/talents/professions around Pve AND PvP. My thinking is, this might be a PvP only MMORPG. That way, the WoW players can continue to kill dragons all day, and they can really try to steal the market with a "Halo/CoD/Gears of War" of MMOs.

 

[The Hive Mind]

I figured that they might try to make a console based MMO, that way they are eating in to the WoW target audience less. And with Activision having an unhealthy ability to publish games on such media and having enough cash to throw at Blizzard to make it happen, surely it isn't such a crazy idea?

This. The console MMORPG market is virtually untapped and is a vast source of potential income for Blizzard. Seems mad they haven't given it a go.

 

[GoGo_Boy]

As usual, a WoW thread and the negativity is beyond 9000.

Also, where's the hint. There is no hint -.-

 

[WOPR]

Who knows, they could do a new kind of MMO. As Daniel Floyd (Extra Credits) said, MMO =/= MMORPG. Who knows, this could be something like a MMOFPS or something o:

being that they said social it's probably something like an MMO-???

I don't know

Whatever Playstation Home is

 

[WOPR]

I figured that they might try to make a console based MMO, that way they are eating in to the WoW target audience less. And with Activision having an unhealthy ability to publish games on such media and having enough cash to throw at Blizzard to make it happen, surely it isn't such a crazy idea?

This. The console MMORPG market is virtually untapped and is a vast source of potential income for Blizzard. Seems mad they haven't given it a go.

Phantasy Star?

...hey just out of curiosity, what was the first MMORPG with a monthly fee in order to play it?

 

[Fearzone]

Wake me when he says something intersting.

 

[WOPR]

What? oh, haha, no offense taken from my end, no worries there. With the initial difficulty of Cataclysm I saw my fair share of whining and the old player base wondering what the big deal was so I'm pretty aware that I got spoiled with Wrath.

OT again: I would LOVE it to be steampunk, that would certainly be an original IP from Blizz. Anything fantasy of theirs will always be considered WoW/Diablo-ish and anything in space will be "Universe of Starcraft."

Yeah but with their "WoW" acronym it's probably going to be "System of StarCraft"

but due to being social most of your days will be spent kicking back in the barracks drinking beer watching TV or in my case shooting tv's (sc2 reference...)

this idea scares me, I wonder if they're going to charge monthly fees for this project too

I also wonder if anyone will be insane enough to subscribe and play BOTH regularly

 

[Danpascooch]

Wow! So much great information here!

1.) There will be guilds
2.) There will be friends lists
3.) There will be PVP
4.) When it comes out you don't want us to stop buying WoW, but rather pay for both.

That's really awesome, now is there anything that everyone didn't already know that you want to tell us?

 

[Danpascooch]

What? oh, haha, no offense taken from my end, no worries there. With the initial difficulty of Cataclysm I saw my fair share of whining and the old player base wondering what the big deal was so I'm pretty aware that I got spoiled with Wrath.

OT again: I would LOVE it to be steampunk, that would certainly be an original IP from Blizz. Anything fantasy of theirs will always be considered WoW/Diablo-ish and anything in space will be "Universe of Starcraft."

Yeah but with their "WoW" acronym it's probably going to be "System of StarCraft"

but due to being social most of your days will be spent kicking back in the barracks drinking beer watching TV or in my case shooting tv's (sc2 reference...)

this idea scares me, I wonder if they're going to charge monthly fees for this project too

I also wonder if anyone will be insane enough to subscribe and play BOTH regularly

Yes, yes they will

 

[Danpascooch]

"For me, playing with people that you know always deepens the engagement and connection," he said.

And, of course, the revenue.

I'd just like it if they'd stray away from the whole competitive PvP, levelbound areas, that change once an expansion and for Blizzard to catch up to the fact that character customization is now accepted as standard. (apart from in their games)

Titan: Well, let me guess - It's based around one of Saturn's Moons and it's a Oregon Trail space adventure; or they're going to totally rip off Titan Quest.

Either way; they're gonna have to break some new ground if they want it to be anything like as popular as WoW, and I'll be amazed if they try that.

Bets on Titan being WoW in Space are now on.

It could mean mythological Titans.

But I'm with you, I bet it's space, they wouldn't retread covered ground would they?

 

[knhirt]

I find the idea of a new Blizzard MMO quite intriguing, because I would like to play something that my friends also play, but I don't really like the idea of starting anew on WoW. Why? Well, I'd have to buy the original game plus all the expansions. That's a chunk of change that I don't really have access to at the moment, so tough luck for me. With a new game, I'd only have to invest in that one thing (plus monthly charges, but I'm fine with that).

Additionally, I trust that Blizzard will stick with their Mac-friendly approach and allow me to play their game no matter which of my partitions I'm running.