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Titan: Mysterious MMO of Mystery
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According to this chart of supposed leak Blizzard launch windows:
Titan, Blizzard's next MMO of a completely new property, will be released by the end of 2013.
This leaves plenty of room for speculation, leaks, and announcements. What do you think Titan will turn out to be?
Titan, Blizzard's next MMO of a completely new property, will be released by the end of 2013.
This leaves plenty of room for speculation, leaks, and announcements. What do you think Titan will turn out to be?
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Or it might be more of the same and be successful on name alone.
What will be interesting is if they go with a subscription again or try their hand at F2P finally; that will depend greatly on both brand power and, most importantly, on whether they make a game that people enjoy enough and for long enough that they can justify a subscription.
Heart of the Swarm was released a year ago, along with "Pheonix".
The WoW TCG had nothing of note happen until halfway through this year, and we're all enjoying the WoW film.
Also, I don't think anything will be "competing" with Elder Scrolls Online, because I don't think that's going to be a very "competitive" game.
Anyway though we really don't know anything about Titan. Not a single bit of information that's remotely confirmed has come out, so anything we can discuss is hearsay. What this mostly will be is people guessing what Titan would be based on what MMOs are right now. Which is fine but I mean, let's face it - have recent MMOs been released based on what MMOs are right now? :P
(Also here's my guess: Titan is abandonware)
That probably won't be a serious competitor. What we've seen so far of ESO is that it's solid, but still just more of the same, and certainly not the traditional Elder Scrolls experience. Riding on the name alone here won't work as well as Titan's ability to ride on WoW's tail and make something new in the process.
Titan's competition will stem from games coming later down the pipe, ones we won't see for a couple years yet (World of Darkness, Pathfinder Online, Everquest 3), some of which might not even be traditional MMOs in the sub/F2P financial model (Star Citizen), and some games that aren't even a glimmer in the eye of a dev yet (a new Superhero MMO, more MMOFPSes like Planetside 2, more modern day MMOs like The Secret World and APB, and more RPG focused ones like SW:TOR).
It will be announced at Blizzcon.
Hint: It is coded 'TITAN' because of inspiration from Titan A.E. The game is going to be marketed as a 'single universe MMO without realms.'
Holy shit. If this is true...
it's also seems pretty improbable that such a game would be announced at blizzcon, less than two months before its release.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
And now we play the waiting game.
*edit* Let me clarify.
Releasing tons of information on a product before it is ready or released is old-hat marketing. Products sell more when they are announced shortly before their launch window. This allows the 'hype train' to still be running on full. Apple does this with nearly every product and it works wonderfully for them. Blizzard has a built-in audience of over 11 million or more at their fingertips. It won't take much for them to sell their new MMO to the people in short order.
I mean... Do we really know anything new?
Nope!
Whatever it is, if it really is knock your socks off material I might be able to forgive Blizzard for some of the decisions they've made in regards to WoW's development over time and that whole D3 being lackluster thing. But that's just personal preference; they could sell us a pile of feces and a million fanboys would line up to defend it to the death like it was the bloody king of Fecesland.
I fully expect it to be another finely crafted, polished, perhaps a little dry, experience; whatever it ends up being, at the very least. And for it to sell a fuckton of copies. Perhaps the game is so much of a departure for Blizzard in the IP and design departments that they want to develop it in a vacuum with only public precedent and their own experience to go on rather then years of fans hyping and complaining and the like.
Some time ago Blizzard was hiring a physics programmer for a next gen MMO. That's all I got to add. If Titan is a Sci-Fi game then it may have some kind of action element corresponding to structural destruction that would necessitate some physics systems.
Also, Blizzard was working in some capacity on incarnations of Diablo 3 ("Project Hydra") in secret for like 8 years before they actually announced it, so this is not exactly unprecedented for them to be quiet about big projects. I highly doubt Titan is "vaporware", especially if the rumors that all their big gun team leads from the original WoW staff having been gradually moved onto Titan are true. It seems very possible it's their biggest project right now
You and me brother, we're of the same mind.
If Wikipedia is to be believed then one of the Blizzard Devs mentioned in Gamasutra March 2011 that Titan was in fact playable.
Ah, specifically this quote:
It's not that they're being quiet about it for so long. It's that it's suppose to be released within the year and there's been zero information on it so close to proposed released date. Diablo 3 was announced what... 2008? And released 2012.
I want to make a joke about combining Titan with COD or Guitar Hero and shady business practices but lack of any info on titan prevents me.
Indeed. See: Starcraft.
And modern day MMOs like Secret World. Or anything that mixes some of these styles.
A thread is so premature it's not even funny.