Blizzard's next MMO 'won't be another WoW' - exec

[DigiQ8]

"When we announce our next MMORPG it's not going to be another WoW - we're not a company that tends to tread the same ground," said Bassat, speaking to film magazine Empire around the time of Burning Crusade's launch. "It'll be something innovative and new that really brings entertainment to another level."

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=72082

 

[CptStern]

it'll be a table tennis game!!! .....oh wait


so this is really a non issue because it doesnt seem like they have any plans besides "it wont be wow2" ...I mean really unless there's a new ip it's not hard to figure out which franchise they'd MMO-ify ..wont be diablo cuz it's too close to Wow ...starcraft MMO: it's a natural cuz koreans love starcraft and MMO's

 

[Zips]

So that essentially means no World of Starcraft.

 

[Qonfused]

Them saying that a new MMO will bring entertainment to another level means they're saying WoW is boring. Amirite?

 

[jondy]

Hehe, not until they get bored of earning ****loads of cash

 

[Leviticus]

Not a company that treads the same ground? They have no qualms about treading other people's ground, apparently. WoW is a well made game and all, but innovative it is not. Not even by Blizzard standards is it innovative.

I hope Blizzard stays away from the MMORPG genre for a long time after WoW. They won't give it the nudge it needs away from where it is. Big, huge, money sucking games like WoW that don't really deliver anything fresh to the genre hold it back if anything.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

Wow it will be interesting to see if Blizzard can pull off another hit game.

It will also be interesting seeing Blizzard compete with itself

 

[Absinthe]

StarCraft MMO... I'd switch from WoW in a heartbeat.

 

[Seagull]

PvP starcraft mmorpg taking over enemy player worlds with battlecruisers with infantry combat, vehicles, the works

 

[Steel.Inferno]

That really does sound like Starcraft, unless it's a new IP.

 

[Cerpin]

If now WoS, maybe World of...hmm..Diablo?

 

[Mutley]

I really can't see the point in a WoW2, people are going to be playing WoW for another 5 years at least.

 

[Lucid]

If now WoS, maybe World of...hmm..Diablo?

World of Diablo wouldn't work out, since it'd definitely be like every other MMORPG out there.

A Starcraft MMO would be logical.
It'd play out like AvP2, on much more massive scale.

 

[15357]

Starcraft... MMO?


*gets out torch and pitchfork*

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Which games company was going to work alongside James Cameron to create a MMO to coincide with a movie J Cameron was going to make?

 

[Cerpin]

Probably those dudes who are making like 20 MMO's right now. Turbine, or was it the Korean guys?

 

[CyberPitz]

Starcraft... MMO?


*gets out torch and pitchfork*

Agreed...Starcraft MUST be an RTS...FOR LIFE!

 

[Sparta]

What if its a MMORTS?

Like the commander mode from BF2 combined with WoW?

That'd be new. And difficult to pull off.

Not gonna happen.

 

[Danimal]

...Never.

 

[CptStern]

they should make a ww2 game







/me runs

 

[PvtRyan]

Starcraft 2 as an MMORTS? RTS in a continuous universe, players have their own empires etc. Wouldn't surprise me.

 

[CptStern]

but it wouldnt work on a large scale ..2-3 players max meaning instances = not really a MMO ...unless it wasnt a single person but rather a guild that controlled your "side" ..each player controlling an individual unit ..kinda like Savage 2

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

they should make a ww2 game







/me runs

I'd like to see an absurdist WWII type game, cartoonish possibly cell shaded, I love Maus and other graphic novels / propaganda that exaggerates historical events. Often times I'm more able to suspend belief and become immersed if characters appear whimsical and beyond rational conceptualization. Of course this is hardly marketable to the masses of middle-aged males that make up the target audience for Blizzard games.

Anyways sorry for the hijack, *additional comment about next installment in Starcraft franchise*

Starcraft 2 as an MMORTS? RTS in a continuous universe, players have their own empires etc. Wouldn't surprise me.

Incredibly ambitious project if they were to take it on, no one has really been successful at this on a large scale. I think Blizzard has typically been the type to perfect a genre, not create new ones entirely.

 

[Dalamari]

Starcraft MMOFPS please, with non-cartoon graphics

 

[Deadline]

I really can't see the point in a WoW2, people are going to be playing WoW for another 5 years at least.

All they have to do is add another expansion that does a Graphics overhaul or something, that would keep my playing for a long time (as I am a very casual player ATM).

 

[Baal]

WoW won't stop being popular until Blizzard stops updating it. Once Blizzard does, it'll still take I'd say at least two or three years after that final "big update" patch for subscriptions to really significantly decline.

WoW does have a lot less staying power I believe than most other games in the genre, without updates it's nothing.

 

[Cerpin]

One Faction For Each Player Omgz

 

[Ennui]

gritty starcraft mmofps.

please.

i'd ****ing give my life to that game.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

They can't make Starcraft an MMO. The story to Starcraft was so ****ing awesome (better than Warcrafts) adn they cna't change they method of telling it (AKA RTS) nor can they trash it for gameplay (ALA WoW)

 

[CyberPitz]

gritty starcraft mmofps.

please.

i'd ****ing give my life to that game.

Me to.

 

[TheMastahC]

if anything it should be Universe of Starcraft.

But I would rather have a new RTS Starcraft or a non-pay-to-play Diablo 3

 

[Ennui]

well as long as we get SOMETHING starcraft related soon i dont really care if its MMO or not

 

[Fliko]

Starcraft MMOFPS I bet

 

[15357]

gritty starcraft mmofps.

please.

i'd ****ing give my life to that game.

Yeah. No Ghost cell-shaded shit, but the original cinematic type ones. Bliss.