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Blizzard, The Burning Crusade and the future…
elionbel
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North American and EU numbers are out for first day sales of TBC and it’s a whopping 2.4 million copies sold (This does not include any of the Asian markets) Needless to say the developers and owners of Blizzard and Vivendi are sitting back and lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills (You can read more about this here.)
There is also rumor on the horizon that the next release by Blizzard will be another MMO format game, some of the hints are that it might be based in the Diablo or Starcraft universe (leaning more towards Starcraft). Blizzard VP of Development dropped some verbal hints at the EU launch party:
“We’d like to say to our fans of Diablo and Starcraft that we haven’t forgotten we have these franchises,†he said. “We cannot wait to be here in a few years, or however long it will be. It won’t be a decade, and we’ll be celebrating the launch of [the next] Starcraft together.†— Source: Gamespot
A Starcraft MMO offers some interesting possibilities and would change the setting to a more sci-fi oriented universe instead of rolling out another fantasy based MMO with Diablo, though it wouldn’t put it past them to eventually offer both.
There is also rumor on the horizon that the next release by Blizzard will be another MMO format game, some of the hints are that it might be based in the Diablo or Starcraft universe (leaning more towards Starcraft). Blizzard VP of Development dropped some verbal hints at the EU launch party:
“We’d like to say to our fans of Diablo and Starcraft that we haven’t forgotten we have these franchises,†he said. “We cannot wait to be here in a few years, or however long it will be. It won’t be a decade, and we’ll be celebrating the launch of [the next] Starcraft together.†— Source: Gamespot
A Starcraft MMO offers some interesting possibilities and would change the setting to a more sci-fi oriented universe instead of rolling out another fantasy based MMO with Diablo, though it wouldn’t put it past them to eventually offer both.
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Whatever, I'll buy them both. I'll buy them all. Blizzard owns my soul.
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No matter how cool the idea is, the player base will tear it to shreds and make it look like utter shut. That and if possible 95% of players would be Dark Templar and the other 80% would be Ghost. Yes, they would defy logic.
Nothing sucks more than MMOs like Anarchy Online that add these cool-sounding guns, but then give them a 30-foot range and give them all the hitting power of throwing a rusty spoon.
A Starcraft MMO ought to be a 3rd person shooter, now that I think about it; something like MMO Mercenaries with Star Craft lore/races/etc.
KOREA AND CHINA ORGASM IN UNISON! MORE AT 12!
I think we should wait and see how Tabula Rasa plays out before saying whether shooter MMO's can work.
[spoiler:d82abba0d3]I hope Tabula Rasa is good. I hope it hard[/spoiler:d82abba0d3]
Plus the news was also about the 2+ million copies sold on Day #1.
Is it easy to shit on everything from an ivory tower?
It's easier to aim, but I wouldn't say the whole enterprise is easy per se.
They should stick to single player games with Battle.net support, MMOs are not their forte.
Anyone else remember seeing anything like this?
Yeah right. They'll continue playing the old game after spending months in forums protesting all the changes Blizzard made to the game, claiming it is horribly unbalanced and too "noob friendly".
Also, they had to upgrade their 200 megahertz PC to play it.
OP has me baffled. Joined today, but isn't a spammer? I don't know how to react.
I mean, really, what is the point here? That they have properties that will receive sequels? That single player content is probably pretty much dead from Blizzard as MMOs are making them so much more money? That Blizzard likes money?
Huh.
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True. It may be a good bet that Blizz will go MMO only. Hopefully not, though, 'cause I like money, too.
Did you perchance notice the lack of peons as playable characters in World of Warcraft?
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Ok, now I opened the next topic of how noobish I am for never noticing that~
...please be gentle...
::twitch::
Then maybe I'm not thinking of a Starcraft MMO in the right light. Maybe I'm thinking of it as a strategy game, with a different person playing a different unit.
And maybe I need to start thinking of something a lot cooler.
/end discussion
Shadowbane was pretty awesome.
I'd be all over this like something that's all over things.
Yeah, that's why roughly half the 223 WoW servers are PvP.
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There would be far more chatter going on in the gaming industry if they were working on a Starcraft title. Everything I am hearing points to Diablo.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
A MMO, maybe not so much...
WoW is a pretty loots game. That's great - but a PvP game it is not.
I was merely refuting your assertion that WoW is for "PvE nuts", because it's a completely bullshit thing to say. I wasn't trying to rank it amongst other games.
If it's for "PvE nuts", then why does half the subscribing population play on a PvP server?
People who enjoy PvP might be drawn to other PvP games if they were of the same quality and polish - a spot that a game like, say, a StarCraft MMO would fulfill.
t Zek: Basically, yes.
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