WoW Lead Designer Moves to Blizz's "Other" MMO

[God's Clown]

Psh everyone knows its gonna be a Lost Vikings MMO.

It won't be a Diablo MMO, because they are releasing Diablo III. It won't be a starcraft MMO, because they are releasing Starcraft II.

One must think it is an MMOrpg, because of whom the lead is on it. I doubt he'd make a MMOFPS(which if they did I hope it would be Starcraft Ghost MMO style.)

So one must assume it will either be another franchise from them, such as lost vikings, or they are making a new franchise all together. My bet is on the latter.

 

[Brett Alex]

It's WoW2.

WoW is the vast majority of Blizzard's income (probably over half of Activision's too). The only thing important enough to pull a top WoW dev position for is an expansion or sequel to That Which Prints Money.

They wouldn't even consider doing that until WoW starts to decline. Like majorly decline. Like drop below a million subscribers decline. If your money printing machine isn't broken, why fix it?

Great now Tigole can go fuck up and ruin another MMO. [http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/7638/thisiswhywowsucksms3.png]

Sakaguchi had already pretty much quit at Square by the time FFXI was released as I recall.

I don't think it matters. When you've entirely missed the irony about complaining about someone supposedly complaining, do you even need to pay attention to facts?

 

[SmugFrog]

I'm pretty certain that it's going to be called "Starcraft Universe". The potential scale and possibilities of a Space MMO in the Starcraft Universe are astonishing, just think about it for a while. Especially with Blizzards financial freedom. (WoW revenues, soon SC2, D3)

You know, I feel like it is inevitable and I wasn't really looking forward to it. As many Starcraft fans as there are, they would be stupid not to create this new area for people to pour money in. The more I think about it though - being able to travel to different worlds in an amazingly huge galaxy would be pretty awesome. It could really be a fun game because it's going to have be very different from WoW.

Anarchy Online was a damn fine futuristic MMORPG (once they worked out all the bugs) - this could really have a lot of potential as an MMO. Especially if it is as addictive as WoW is.

 

[oliveira8]

I'm pretty certain that it's going to be called "Starcraft Universe". The potential scale and possibilities of a Space MMO in the Starcraft Universe are astonishing, just think about it for a while. Especially with Blizzards financial freedom. (WoW revenues, soon SC2, D3)

You know, I feel like it is inevitable and I wasn't really looking forward to it. As many Starcraft fans as there are, they would be stupid not to create this new area for people to pour money in. The more I think about it though - being able to travel to different worlds in an amazingly huge galaxy would be pretty awesome. It could really be a fun game because it's going to have be very different from WoW.

Anarchy Online was a damn fine futuristic MMORPG (once they worked out all the bugs) - this could really have a lot of potential as an MMO. Especially if it is as addictive as WoW is.

Hope not...I dont want to go back to the MMO addition....How does it go? "WHen I thought I was out..They pull me back in!"

 

[Pigeon_Grenade]

Whatever this new project is, I have a feeling that when it's finally revealed, my reaction will be a disappointed, "...oh."

Whys that?

I'm hoping Blizzard has some crazy new formula in mind, but the rational side of me thinks it'll be more of the same MMORPG grind-fest.

i Agree its going to be Wow, with new paint, Especially since the Lead Designer of Wow is now on the Project, they are also going to choose 1 of the 2 other franchises that they have, so its either Diablo Or starcraft