Blizzard Says New MMO Will be Its “Next Big Thing” After Diablo III, Believes It Will “Eclipse” WoW
Blizzard Says New MMO Will be Its “Next Big Thing” After Diablo III, Believes It Will “Eclipse” WoW
Posted 03/09/2011 at 7:00pm
| by Nathan Grayson
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After raking in more money than many small nations from a single game – not to mention getting to meet Mr. T – most people would become complacent. Not Blizzard, though. The PC behemoth's officially going full-steam ahead with its next massively multiplayer megaton, and it's certainly not being shy about its pie-in-the-sky plan: to “eclipse” World of Warcraft.
“I believe [it's] the most ambitious thing we’ve ever attempted,” Blizzard COO Paul Sams told Gamasutra. “And I feel like we have set our company up to succeed on that. We have some of our most talented and most experienced developers on that team. Many of the people that built World of Warcraft are full time on that other team.”
“As it relates to that other [MMO], we think that it’s going to be very impactful in our industry and, we hope, very impactful to the world. We think that that will be, after Diablo III, the next big thing from us. The thing that we hope will happen is that it will not stop World of Warcraft but we believe will eclipse it.”
Bear in mind that “next” in Blizzard Standard Time could still be quite a ways off – especially since the MMO, codenamed “Titan,” isn't even slated for a reveal until 2012. Not that we're complaining, mind you; it just means we have more time to accomplish all our hopes and dreams before we're inevitably sucked into an addiction that devours the rest of our lives.
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aarcane
May 16, 2011 at 3:33pm
Maybe it'll be WoD, a Diablo based MMO with all the classes from all three games, plus new ones. Maybe it'll just be WoS, which would suck as hard as starcraft.
Carpnter
March 10, 2011 at 9:42am
It will be full of endless grinds like they currently have for Archaeology.
chipmunkofdoom2
March 10, 2011 at 5:40am
Well, let's hope Blizzard thinks they can make a lot of money off this new game.. if not, it'll be another 10+ year release (SCII).
bpstone
March 09, 2011 at 11:24pm
WoW had some good elements to it; however my idea of fun was not grinding for hours or even days bored to-death. The quests were often dumb having no real point to them. Retrieving dirt or running around to find someone is not my idea of fun nor should doing that earn experience (XP). Experience should only be earned in hard battles. Interacting with people was about the only thing enjoyable while playing the game. Unless Blizzard creates something vastly different in a more mature environment, then I'm not going to bother with them anymore. It always felt like a drunk kiddie world with no sense of what was happening. lol As of now I have no interest in playing WoW or anything like it.
aarcane
March 09, 2011 at 7:52pm
it'll suck, just like wow did. another boring questfest..
(Edit: First first for me, yaay!)
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