Blizzard CEO Drops Hints About New MMO

[timeadept]

So they basically said a whole lot of nothing. I was hoping for something new about titan, i guess the fact that it WILL be a different game from WoW is SOMETHING. Not much though. I have some ideas about the problems that blizzard might address. Ones that are tied into core game play mechanics and WOULD need an entirely new game to be changed, i can only hope that Blizzard is thinking about the same ones I am though.

One thing that i suspect they'll change is the realm setup. Where you create a character in a certain realm and can never leave without paying 15$ and after that there are still more restrictions. It ultimately made it impossible to play with new friends because odds are that they're in a diff realm, in a good guild, and theres a 50/50 chance that they're the other faction and you'd have to do something even more drastic to play with them, or simply start a new character (and grind to 85 over the next few weeks).

oh yeah, i forgot the best part. This IS Blizzard we're talking about, the first ones to "Master" the game. If anyone is going to shake things up with something new, then i'm hopeful that Blizz can do it and do it right.

 

[Exort]

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

Titan is very common name in games... Also it is a codename and codenames are suppose to make no sense.
Then again, Blizzard said the new MMO is based on new IP, so it is not set in warcraft or Starcraft.

 

[Kyoufuu]

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.

You now need crowd control for normal dungeons.

 

[timeadept]

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

It is a codename. Also, Titan could mean a lot of things. Are you saying this new MMO could also be about an American football team?

OT: I don't like how it could coexist with WoW they should make it totally its own game, but Blizz is smart (and rich) so this could get interesting.

You realize what it means to co-exist right? Like exist together, that's kind of hard to do if you're competing with each other. In fact, unless you're equally matched, one will eventually force the other "bankrupt" (i really don't know what to call it if a company were to compete with it's self and "win").

If you're thinking co-exist as in the same game "universe" i think that is not what blizz is going for. There was so much nothing in this update that i doubt that by co-exist they were talking about the story at all.

Oh shit i forgot an important part! I think it's likely that this game will play significantly different from WoW. Because if it does, then both games can appeal to different audiences without fighting over a lot of the same people. I expect little overlap between the audiences of both games, Titan will possibly be more of an action game?

 

[imperialwar]

Well lets think about theis for a while.
A Sci Fi rpg - mmo
Well it would have elemtents of TF2 and WoW. Namely using their existing talent tree format.
I can only really think of two maybe three character types.
The Grunt, The Medic and maybe The Pilot.
Any thing outside of that is really just a talent specialization.
The Sniper,A grunt spec'd into aiming and stealth.
The Engineer, possibly a Pilot spec'd into building gadgets and machines. Again possibly covered by professions, but also talent thats allow you to use differnt machines.
The Heavy, again the Grunt spec'd into heavy weapons and armour.
But you see where im going here.
Infact i cant even think of any talent trees for the medic...
Anybody else got any thoughts along these lines, lets work this out. IF there was to be a sci fi rpg what could they do ?

 

[Exort]

Wake me when he says something intersting.

This

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.

They did not regret puting arena in the game. They said they regretted how they introduce the arena in he game. Big difference. Then people mis-quoted the thing. A blue post was even posted just to clear up the mess.

 

[Suicidal Zebra]

Will the new Blizzard MMO by based around HALO IP? More grist for the mill.

 

[Yvl9921]

Only way they can co-exist ifs if it's a shared subscription. Which sounds like a damn good idea to me.

 

[Yvl9921]

Will the new Blizzard MMO by based around HALO IP? More grist for the mill.

That's not legally possible. Bungie doesn't even own the Halo IP, and even if they did there's nothing pointing to them being in bed with each other to this extent.

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

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

It is a codename. Also, Titan could mean a lot of things. Are you saying this new MMO could also be about an American football team?

OT: I don't like how it could coexist with WoW they should make it totally its own game, but Blizz is smart (and rich) so this could get interesting.

You realize what it means to co-exist right? Like exist together, that's kind of hard to do if you're competing with each other. In fact, unless you're equally matched, one will eventually force the other "bankrupt" (i really don't know what to call it if a company were to compete with it's self and "win").

If you're thinking co-exist as in the same game "universe" i think that is not what blizz is going for. There was so much nothing in this update that i doubt that by co-exist they were talking about the story at all.

Oh shit i forgot an important part! I think it's likely that this game will play significantly different from WoW. Because if it does, then both games can appeal to different audiences without fighting over a lot of the same people. I expect little overlap between the audiences of both games, Titan will possibly be more of an action game?

Yea I read it as co-exist within the story. Woops my bad.

 

[Riobux]

Blizzard is making a second money machine, cool.

 

[Exort]

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

Blizzard already said it is a new IP. So, no Starcraft.

 

[LightOfDarkness]

Titan is the codename, not the final name. My guess is World of Starcraft.

 

[Suicidal Zebra]

Only way they can co-exist ifs if it's a shared subscription. Which sounds like a damn good idea to me.

Just stirring the pot .

Blizzard's Titan MMO being connected to a HALO MMO via Ensemble Studios is a rumour that's been going around the WoW-Sphere for a little while now, and HALO (or a game like HALO) would certainly fit a more PvP-centric MMO experience. It's fun conjecture that should be dispelled as soon as Titan is officially unveiled (probably at around Blizzcon 2013), but what would life be like without these little theories

 

[Frotality]

wait wait wait....coexist with WoW? so are they actually expecting people to pay for both MMOs at the same time?

i know some people certainly would, but that is really pushing it. sounds like an activision business plan if ever ive heard one.

 

[Yvl9921]

Only way they can co-exist ifs if it's a shared subscription. Which sounds like a damn good idea to me.

Just stirring the pot .

Blizzard's Titan MMO being connected to a HALO MMO via Ensemble Studios is a rumour that's been going around the WoW-Sphere for a little while now, and HALO (or a game like HALO) would certainly fit a more PvP-centric MMO experience. It's fun conjecture that should be dispelled as soon as Titan is officially unveiled (probably at around Blizzcon 2013), but what would life be like without these little theories

I'm disproving it right now. Acti-Blizzard does not have the rights to Halo nor is it even remotely imaginable that they could acquire said rights, and Bungie is working on their own project anyway since they don't have the Halo IP anymore.

 

[timeadept]

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

It is a codename. Also, Titan could mean a lot of things. Are you saying this new MMO could also be about an American football team?

OT: I don't like how it could coexist with WoW they should make it totally its own game, but Blizz is smart (and rich) so this could get interesting.

You realize what it means to co-exist right? Like exist together, that's kind of hard to do if you're competing with each other. In fact, unless you're equally matched, one will eventually force the other "bankrupt" (i really don't know what to call it if a company were to compete with it's self and "win").

If you're thinking co-exist as in the same game "universe" i think that is not what blizz is going for. There was so much nothing in this update that i doubt that by co-exist they were talking about the story at all.

Oh shit i forgot an important part! I think it's likely that this game will play significantly different from WoW. Because if it does, then both games can appeal to different audiences without fighting over a lot of the same people. I expect little overlap between the audiences of both games, Titan will possibly be more of an action game?

Yea I read it as co-exist within the story. Woops my bad.

that's cool, i do that often enough myself

 

[Klepa]

Some tiny ideological part in me wanted to read that as "We're making an MMO that's completely opposite to WoW, and will cater to a different audience entirely."

I want a modern Ultima Online, goddamn it.

 

[Littlee300]

Will the new Blizzard MMO by based around HALO IP? More grist for the mill.

That's not legally possible. Bungie doesn't even own the Halo IP, and even if they did there's nothing pointing to them being in bed with each other to this extent.

You sir have been trolled.
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World of Starcraft? Blizzard was getting mad at a game called "World of Starcraft", which is a starcraft 2 custom game. Maybe because they want the name free?

 

[VladG]

You know, I think we might just be witnessing the end of gaming here... . There will be Blizzard, and that's it. I honestly can barely cram any other game (in my otherwise very very lax schedule) other than World of Warcraft (and I mostly only play during raidhours 3 times a week) and Starcraft 2 (been playing since the very first day and have around 1000 games played). I just managed to finish Mass Effect 2. I'm still waiting on Dragon Age: Origins (I didn't even pick up the next one, not to mention DA2) and GTA4. And soon there will be Diablo 3, and judging by their track record, Blizzard is probably going to pull off another super-duper-best-seller. And then there's Titan. Blizz already has a monopoly on my gaming time, and I imagine there are many many others just like me. What will happen to all the other games and game devs once Blizzard has 4-5 active games out (active as in not upgrades from an older game - like SC1, Diablo1-2)? Will anyone be able to compete? I mean look what happened in this Holiday season (probably the hottest release period): Nothing came out except Cataclysm, because everyone knew it would kill the sales of any, ANY, other game out there. What will happen to the MMO market, where Blizzard'd WoW probably has more players than all the other MMOs together (counting "real"games here, stuff like EVE Online, Conan, the upcoming StarWars mmo, not stuff like Farmville, Darkthrone, etc)if they are going for a game that will not draw from the WoW fanbase, but create a new one altogether? (obviously lots of people will play both, but if they say they aren't going to overlap, I kinda believe them)

While Blizzard's dominance over my gaming time is not a bad thing at the moment (hey, I play their stuff more than anything else because it's better than pretty much everything else), there are still a few other games out there not made by Blizz that have enthralled me, delighted me and entertained me.

I might just be paranoid and rambling, but I don't want to lose other potentially excellent games just because Blizzard crushed all competition.