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11-09-2007
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From:Cursegaming
Earlier today, the Blizzard Entertainment website updated its Job section to include mention of a, "Top Secret MMO."
As soon as fan sites saw the hints, the speculation mill churned up and some obvious and not so obvious ideas of what the next MMO out of Blizzard may be.
Starcraft MMO
We may be witnessing the first stages of a new Starcraft MMO based on the previous approach Blizzard took with World of Warcraft. Blizzard used Warcraft III and the expansion to tidy up the lore and certain plot lines so that the game could be adapted to fit an MMO environment and this could be what they are doing with the single player Starcraft II campaign. Rob Pardo revelealed back in August that Blizzard planned to return to the shelved Starcraft: Ghost so this could be a sign that we may get a console-based MMO.
Diablo MMO
At the end of Lords of Destruction, the award winning expansion to Diablo II, the gates of Hell were left wide open for demons to walk the Earth and so a Heaven vs. Hell no-holds-barred fight to the death isn't too far fetched an idea, surely? Diablo has been a franchise that has been untouched for almost as long as Starcraft was before the announcement of Starcraft II so we may see a Diablo relaunch in the MMO genre.
A Brand New Franchise
Some of you may remember that a couple of years ago, Blizzard hinted at a brand new IP to go along side their current titles. It is possible the new MMO may have nothing to do with Starcraft or Diablo and Mr. Metzen may be hard at work right now creating the base for another award-winning franchise to add to Blizzards diversity. Perhaps a new IP that is specifically designed for the MMO genre and not adapted from an existing genre is what Blizzard are planning?
Whatever it is, we should know by now that they are very careful with the way they handle publicity so the fact that these hints occurred on Hallowe'en may be full of purpose. After all, some of us have suspected that they have been working on a new MMO for a while so why did the Irvine-based game gods wait until now to start dropping the teasers?
We'll just have to wait and see...
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11-09-2007
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does IP = internet protocol or? |
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Originally Posted by WoWLegend does IP = internet protocol or? | Lol. |
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Im not sure. |
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Yeah it does, but what i think he means is another section, like probably Starcraft,Warcraft,Diablo,WoW etc are situated seperately so have different ips?
Anyway thats at least what i think. Would b awesome for a new game! |
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A Diablo MMO would be the same as WoW imo. I don't think that it would be SC because with Tabula Rasa coming out it would be to much competition between two similar games. I think it will be a completely new franchise, but those are jsut my thoughts.
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hmm i wonder.. they havnt really released an solely "Ancient" mmo theme. Like ancient history with ancient powers, egyptians etc.. could be alot available there. |
11-10-2007
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I dont think blizz would make a new mmo, wow would be really hard to replace, mind you I got to give it to blizz they are money hungry! |
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Well I think I did read somewhere that Blizzards would focus mainly on the MMO market, so I don't think it's that unlikely that their next game is a MMO.
And it's not like WoW is unreplacable. There is always stuff that can be upgraded, and as stated in the OP, they have alot of stuff to work with, all with a solid player fan base.
They have also learned alot from making WoW and I think all that knowledge will make the next MMO even better from the start. Even though WoW is hard to replace I don't think it's impossible, I mean, it's Blizzard  . |
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So ughh... is blizzard thinking about making some kind of new game. Cause thats what im thinking from reading this fourm. |
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I don't think blizzard would make a Starcraft MMO, seeing as it would be to much competition between that and SC2 and I bet that 2/3 of WoW players go play the SC MMO instead.
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Looks like they're picking up a lot of new people for this "Next-Gen MMO"  |
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MABY.... they are gearing up for the expansion in which they improve the overall graphics quality of WoW?? It was stated that they plan to upgrade the graphics completely in an upcoming expansion (not WotLK) so perhaps... the "nex-gen" jobs they are searching for relate to this?
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Originally Posted by gothian  MABY.... they are gearing up for the expansion in which they improve the overall graphics quality of WoW?? It was stated that they plan to upgrade the graphics completely in an upcoming expansion (not WotLK) so perhaps... the "nex-gen" jobs they are searching for relate to this? | In that case it would have a world of warcraft logo beside the job listing. |
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Originally Posted by yazid129 In that case it would have a world of warcraft logo beside the job listing. | Ya got a point, but time will tell.
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