Blizzard's New MMO Will "Blow People's Minds"
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While this is basically a place holder article while waiting for actual news to need being reported, it does open up some interesting discussions.
First, do you think that just because they said no STARCRAFT MMO that you can bank on that? Statements like that could be just ways of managing expectations and keeping the buzz machine from killing the baby in the cradle. It's very possible that they won't release a STARCRAFT MMO, but don't bet on it.
What would they do? Well, they have a fantasy game already so building another one of those would absolutely cannibalize their current MMO without opening new markets, so unless they believe that Fantasy is the only possible setting for a successful MMO they probably wont release another one of those until they see market indicators that WoW is failing.
The two exceptions would be form factor and incursion into new markets and platforms. In other words if the play style was significantly different from standard MMOs, perhaps more akin to Diablo instead of WoW, that would allow a MMO to spread to new platforms and reach new markets. Imagine being able to hit dungeons with friends on the 360 or your windows tablet? While this is probably not what Blizzard has in mind, it would take something that significant to make them risk fracturing support for their most successful property.
I guess the next most obvious would be space, and if they chose a space setting why wouldn't they pick STARCRAFT? They have crafted a rich universe with the latest RTS installment and creating another universe seems rather silly unless they want to add in a wealth of aliens and events that would not be compatible with their RTS.
But whatever it is, no doubt it'll be really really good.
First, do you think that just because they said no STARCRAFT MMO that you can bank on that? Statements like that could be just ways of managing expectations and keeping the buzz machine from killing the baby in the cradle. It's very possible that they won't release a STARCRAFT MMO, but don't bet on it.
What would they do? Well, they have a fantasy game already so building another one of those would absolutely cannibalize their current MMO without opening new markets, so unless they believe that Fantasy is the only possible setting for a successful MMO they probably wont release another one of those until they see market indicators that WoW is failing.
The two exceptions would be form factor and incursion into new markets and platforms. In other words if the play style was significantly different from standard MMOs, perhaps more akin to Diablo instead of WoW, that would allow a MMO to spread to new platforms and reach new markets. Imagine being able to hit dungeons with friends on the 360 or your windows tablet? While this is probably not what Blizzard has in mind, it would take something that significant to make them risk fracturing support for their most successful property.
I guess the next most obvious would be space, and if they chose a space setting why wouldn't they pick STARCRAFT? They have crafted a rich universe with the latest RTS installment and creating another universe seems rather silly unless they want to add in a wealth of aliens and events that would not be compatible with their RTS.
But whatever it is, no doubt it'll be really really good.
They have said that it's not going to be World of Starcraft, but doesn't that seem like a terrible waste of well-established and well-liked IP? An MMOFPS based on Starcraft seems like it would be a no-brainer smash hit if it were well done.
Steal the best parts of TF2 for PvP, add an open world solo-friendly story/leveling experience for casual WoWheads, and you've got another 12-million player hit on your hands. (Of course, more than half of those would also be WoW subscribers, but who cares - a sub is a sub.)
Steal the best parts of TF2 for PvP, add an open world solo-friendly story/leveling experience for casual WoWheads, and you've got another 12-million player hit on your hands. (Of course, more than half of those would also be WoW subscribers, but who cares - a sub is a sub.)
It's blizzard, they have a track record of awesome games. They have bragging rights until they release their first shovelware.Sovereignty said:
Uh they made wow to begin with, and said they'd be using what they know works and doesn't work with WoW to build TITAN.Worgen said:
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better mmos then wow have come along but none of them could stand up to the sheer amount of content that wow has and all the time it has had to fix bugs and so forth, any new mmo has to compete with it and blizzards is no exception unless they somehow link them which they said they wouldnt doJames Raynor said:
Woo, my first post I think. Time to display some Blizzard appreciation in a totally non-fanboy way!
I'm not a big fan of auto target mmorpgs myself, and chances are pretty high that this won't be one of them. I think there's a solid chance it's going to be a f2p game because of how much more profitable that model is for online games, and someone who's even paid attention in a high school economics class would understand why f2p works much better than subscription-based systems.
A great f2p action rpg would be great, especially if there was physics and such... but we already have Vindictus, and blizzard would have to work pretty hard to do better than that game all-around. I've never played an fps mmo, but if Blizzard made it, I'd certainly give it a shot. Whatever it's going to be, I'm sure it'll have rpg elements, but I seriously doubt it'll be another hotkey mmo.
I'm not a big fan of auto target mmorpgs myself, and chances are pretty high that this won't be one of them. I think there's a solid chance it's going to be a f2p game because of how much more profitable that model is for online games, and someone who's even paid attention in a high school economics class would understand why f2p works much better than subscription-based systems.
A great f2p action rpg would be great, especially if there was physics and such... but we already have Vindictus, and blizzard would have to work pretty hard to do better than that game all-around. I've never played an fps mmo, but if Blizzard made it, I'd certainly give it a shot. Whatever it's going to be, I'm sure it'll have rpg elements, but I seriously doubt it'll be another hotkey mmo.
Agree. I got bored with WoW after 2 days. Shortest ever time I spent on an MMO game.Mazty said:
Can we start and have front news reports with:
Nintendo says Mario will blow you away!
Nintendo says that Pokemon is addicting!
Microsoft says that Halo: 25 is amazing!
Activision says that Call of Duty: Yet Another Game is the best one yet.
Seriously. Is Blizzard saying THEIR new game is amazing really headliner news worthy? If it was Nintendo or Square or another dev saying it maybe so. But not the people who are making the game.
Nintendo says Mario will blow you away!
Nintendo says that Pokemon is addicting!
Microsoft says that Halo: 25 is amazing!
Activision says that Call of Duty: Yet Another Game is the best one yet.
Seriously. Is Blizzard saying THEIR new game is amazing really headliner news worthy? If it was Nintendo or Square or another dev saying it maybe so. But not the people who are making the game.
That'd be interesting. If they took it another step forward and started introducing third party games, kinda like SOE did, that could be really interesting. But however they do it, it is Blizz so anything they pump out may be worthwhile. I think this'll be their first test as Blizzivision. If the new IP lacks then I'm betting we'll know why.Yvl9921 said:
