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World of "Starcraft": To be announced soon...
Nazaros
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Yes. For the better or for worst.... Here's the article.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=153947&highlight=World+Starcraft
There is no smoke without fire.
What deserves to be done, deserves to be "well" done...
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Until I hear something official from blizzard, these threads about such rumours will be considered bs.
What deserves to be done, deserves to be "well" done...
And why would you announce that you're announcing a certain game? Doesn't that defeat the purpose? That's all just rumor mongering.
Oh look out! the train! *watches him jump aside into a mud pool on the ground* oh there was no train, my mistake... oh no, a train again! *repeats...*
First you use a stupid analogy and then you refer to me as a sad person? Put some more stats points into intelligence please.
The rumor floating around these days is that Blizzard is primed to announce a Starcraft MMO in a week and a half, as opposed to a new RTS. The reality is that you can't be rewarded like they have on a global scale and not have it deeply impact your business philosophy. Let's say they did make a new Starcraft game in the strategy vein - fifty-five dollars up front, with free online play and a forty dollar expansion six months hence. With this theoretical Starcraft MMO, you're looking at fifty-five dollars up front, with an additional one sixty-five in subs your first year, plus one-eighty each year thereafter and the inevitable expansion. What's more, these subscriptions (and in some cases, the expansions themselves) are money that goes directly to the company, as though ferried on the wings of angels.
I don't know that I believe it necessarily, the MMO thing I mean, it's just that the case for it looks so pretty on a spreadsheet. I sometimes read the words of incredulous young men in threads who claim that creating another MMO to compete with their existing proposition is "loudacrous," when it's actually the only thing they can do.
It may be difficult to imagine that the Massively Multiplayer RPG that was referenced on South Park will one day lose its cultural cache, but like inexorable winter that time is fast approaching and it must be prepared for. You may be certain that Vivendi Universal, the company that actually owns Blizzard, would like to continue seeing profits of this kind - and software you don't rent from them on a monthly basis ain't gonna cut it. I linked an interview with NCSoft's Richard Garriot once about the inevitability of "churn," a corrosive force that is simply endemic to the genre. Their approach to this dark energy is to create more games, each successive game being easier to create as a powerful suite of shared tools are put in place, so that when a player closes one account they just open up another account with the same company. That's why there's no "Station Pass" for NCSoft titles. They don't want you playing more than one. They want you moving with full focus from one game to the next, travelling from one end of their flashing lure to the other, paying the appropriate fees.
Picture a man who has crawled up a long tunnel, wet and ridged, to lie panting just outside its mouth in utter exhaustion. His strength regained, he sees a familiar door and steps within, only to tumble town another slick gullet into the same squeezing, subterranean belly. Loudicrous, indeed. For the businessman, this dark scenario is almost pornography.
(CW)TB out.
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I'd rather hear about the next WoW expansion then about another game I have to start all over in.... again....
Currently subscribed to 4 MMO's....then again I live in the basement...
That Guild Wars 2 login screen knocked up my wife. Must be the second coming!
I mean games like age of conan and sword of the new world offer innovation, what does blizzard have?
Lets check what we know:
As for the actual announcment Vivindei did say in an official press release that Starcraft and Diablo would be getting a MMO version.
Blizzard is announceing a new game in a week and a half.
Blizzard is announcing a new game at Blizzcon 2007
1st announcment is taking place in Korea
Starcraft is huge in Korea
You can come to you own conclusions based off that. But fact is a new Starcraft game will be announced.
Its not World of Warcraft that owns the MMO "industry" its Blizzard. The ones who created World of Warcraft. So why not chomp down on the idea? Its popular over every forum that has brought it up.... they have to have seen it, right?
Look at it this way.
You're CEO of Blizzard Entertainment. You've watched World of Warcraft demolish competition on the market, and have made grand success in its wake. However at the same time you are seeing a bit of a fall in numbers for World of Warcraft (how ever minor you may claim them to be, this always spells trouble for an MMO corporation.) and here you have another title of yours staring you dead in the face. It was shot dead with Starcraft Ghost.. and fans were upset... Starcraft made huge sales and is still widely popular in the asian countries.
Hmm, WoW = Excellent in Asia
Starcraft = Excellent in Asia.....
Starcraft Online = Outstanding in Asia.
They obviously have the funds to create such a game, their job site is calling for MMO developers. We have tons of magazines ranting over it.. there isn't much doubt to it being something other than starcraft.. And blizzard is loving the MMO world right now. They practically own it with WoW.. or at least did.
Now Blizzard is faced with the trials of several new games coming out that, together could threaten Blizzards subscription numbers with a blow... regardless of whether or not it will actually happen... corporations don't usually like to take that change.. and whats better than putting out a sibling for your raging product on the current market?
Makes all the sense in the world to me..
Now, there is always that chance it isn't true.. if it isn't.. i think Blizzard is going to miss out on something beneficial here.. but it is their corporation, and their call.
We shall see.
Everquest - 2000 - '02
Anarchy Online - '01-'02
Earth and Beyond - '02-'04
Star Wars Galaxies - '03-'06('07)
World of Warcraft - '04-'07
Age of Conan - '08 - shelved.
-Waiting on-
Star Trek Online
SW: The Old Republic
I don't think it would be bad to make a new MMO. Blizzard might be able to pull people in who quit WoW or people who aren't interested in the WoW fantasy genre. Everybody wouldn't leave WoW because some people just love that fantasy genre over futuristic. It would just get them more subscribers or at worst they wouldn't lose subscribers. Many games will be released soon that people are considering a threat to the behemoth known as Blizzard. They will lose some subscribers to those either way unless they do something to make people want to play their MMO. Why not make another MMO based off of one of their huge hits? I'm sure it would have a huge following (it already does and it's nothing but rumors) to counter the new MMO games coming out in the near future.
They need to make something new or they will lose alot of subscribers in the near future. They could just make another expansion but Burning Crusade is the reason many people quit WoW.
And yeah, I can see the reasoning behind World of Starcraft (although I'm not so sure about the name). I still think that Diablo would be better suited for an MMO than Starcraft. Starcraft is an awesome game, but I never really liked the 'world'. I don't think I would play a Starcraft MMO unless it proved to have better game play than any other MMO on the market.
What I want: a Starcraft MMO FPS ...ala Planetside, but this time instead of just fighting over continents, players would be fighting over worlds.
What I really want though: To shoot up a bunch of Zerglings, Rambo style.
Seriously though, I'd love for the Starcraft franchise to evolve into that. Player-factioned PvP in space with Developer controlled enemy forces(Zerg or something else?) fighting over exotic resources with an ongoing persistent storyline.
*crosses fingers*
Diablo MMO would be cool too, I guess.
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...and history repeats...
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Dude. You SO took the words out of my mouth.
But ehm......I say let Diablo be diablo for the moment. Its Starcraft's turn now, imho.
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But it's not just about the here and now...it's about 2 years down the line. WoW has basically peaked, and people will start to drift away. Now they can drift away to a non-Blizz game, or go to another Blizz game. It's about keeping and maintaining subs just as much as getting new ones.