Blizzard's New MMOG Will Be "Significantly Different" From WoW

[Mcupobob]

leave it too blizzard who has more money than god to make another mmo, well i probly do the same though.

 

[Xbowhyena]

I like how Blizzard's conceit seems to be that they're totally capable of creating a WoW-killer, despite the fact that no company has yet managed to achieve that lofty goal. Frankly, I wouldn't bet that Blizzard is capable of making a WoW-killer, even if they are the guys who made WoW to begin with. I think it's too big even for them to defeat, unless they slowly phase out WoW in favor of this new MMO.

The thing is they're not trying to make a WoW killer, they're just making a new MMOG.

I know that, I read this article before I posted, which I can't say you did for my comment before you made your post. See, the whole point of this article is that Blizzard is explaining that they are trying their damnedest to not make a WoW-killer, which means they're assuming that if they do their job wrong, they could potentially make one. Which assumes they have the power to make a WoW-killer, which is what I'm disputing here (I'm saying they couldn't make one if they tried, much less if they didn't try). Which is the whole crux of the irony in my statement.

Frankly, I think you could've saved both me and you some time if you'd looked up "conceit" in the dictionary.

Re read the article. Blizzard never said that they could make a WoW killer, the guy who wrote the article ASKED if it would "Cannibalize the WoW player base" They said they were working on a completely different type of MMOG. Where in that entire document does Blizzard say that they could kill their own game? Also, because of course they made World of Warcraft, I think they have the best chance of making a better MMOG.

 

[Molten Discharge]

If they do lose WoW players it's only to another of their games
makes no real difference, really. just more moola0h for them.

Problem is WHAT IF the new MMO destroys the WoW user-base. If you like WoW but hate the new game there'll be no-one to play with on the WoW servers.

 

[[zonking great]]

Yeah, you know how it will be significantly different? BECAUSE IT WILL BE SET IN FUCKING SPACE. It is hilariously obvious that their next muhmorpugah will be Starcraft. And that is all I have time for today. Tune in next time when I proceed to bomb the crap out of Farmer Blizzard with their Franchise Cows.

 

[FiveSpeedf150]

I like how Blizzard's conceit seems to be that they're totally capable of creating a WoW-killer, despite the fact that no company has yet managed to achieve that lofty goal. Frankly, I wouldn't bet that Blizzard is capable of making a WoW-killer, even if they are the guys who made WoW to begin with. I think it's too big even for them to defeat, unless they slowly phase out WoW in favor of this new MMO.

The thing is they're not trying to make a WoW killer, they're just making a new MMOG.

Lets not look at it so much as a wow-killer, but a successor. How long with WoW keep expanding? Level 90? 100? At what point do people start to back off and say enough is enough? I think WoW is running out of ideas fast as it is.

I don't think this game will aim to yank players out of WoW right away, but slowly absorb those players that WoW bleeds off... until this new one becomes blizz's dominant cash cow.

I think that if blizz manages to blend what is good about WoW with what is good about EVE, while leaving the crappy parts of both out (what is shit and what isn't is up for debate, I know) they'll have a winner, especially if it's a "World of Starcraft" as has already been predicted here.

 

[ace_of_something]

Please be a Lost Vikings based MMO. I don't know how it'd work but I deamnd it.

 

[Spiterider]

The ultimate solution: Grinding in one game gives benefits to the other game.

That way, you can waste time in one game to get benefits in the other one, allowing you to effectively play two games at once.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

well if you haven't noticed blizzard is now forcing the battle.net login, in order to make you be able to log in across all blizzard content. makes sense that this new mmo may have an affiliation. also we all know blizzards track record, diablo, starcraft, warcraft. thats there whole game world, admittedly they do have a couple games unaffiliated with those, but i dont remember them. besides they are currently developing three games. Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, WoW cataclysm, so it will be some time before we here of it, but in my opinion, warcraft went through 3 strategy games before becoming a mmo, so either diablo will come as an mmo next or since it is not a strategy game, starcraft will get it after the 3rd game, lol. or they will just make starcraft a mmo cuz we all know we'd prefer it, besides it'd be an fps too, and a lot of worlds and maps considering space travel. of course then you have race chose to have planets as well, it would be freakin awesome but huge i would hope the server cap would be set much higher, say...... 20,000 a realm, if not more, to allow for maybe a 3 planet area and lots of world pvp with true battles. the ability to have ships and even high lvls recruiting low lvls to run carriers or battle cruisers so on and so forth. dude, i hopw its starcraft if they go that big. of course to make worlds like that and npc's and quest trees, and so forth would be alot of work, so if thats it, dont get to excited till about late 2010 to even know about it, and expect release around november 2011, unless they pushback to march 2012.

 

[Direwolf750]

It doesn't matter so much that they feel different, and I'm sure that some people will still play both, but when you make 2 MMO pay-to-play games, you are going to have people make a choice about which one they are going to play. It's just not going to work out.