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Blizzards Titan MMO will co-exist with WoW, might integrate Facebook
ThomasN7
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Blizzard’s World of Warcraft is a billion dollar industry in and of its own self, but it’s a seven year old game at this point. At some point, people are going to lose interest, and when they do, Blizzard is going to need to have something new ready.
For Blizzard, that’s Titan. According to a leaked Blizzard document, that’s the name of their next-gen MMO and scheduled to be released sometime in 2013. So far, it sounds like a whole new franchise, but other than that, Blizzard has not been open about what users should expect.
That changed yesterday, when Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime gave the first tenuous tips about what Titan might be like… not from a plot, but from a gameplay perspective.
“Without giving away any details, we have some of our most experienced MMO developers, people who spent years working on the World of WarCraft team, working on this project,” Morhaime said. “We’re really trying to leverage all the lessons we learned through the years. Some of which we were able to address in World of WarCraft and others that maybe because of the design decisions we’ve made, you just can’t address. So we’re kind of taking a step back with all that knowledge to make something that’s completely new and fresh. We’re not trying to make a WoW sequel.”
He then confirmed that Titan and World of Warcraft would co-exist.
But this is all pretty vague. What about actual gameplay? Morhaime was tight-lipped, but one thing he did stress was that games are more fun when you’re playing against people you know, not strangers.
In other words, social gaming. If we’re reading his statements right, it sounds likely that Blizzard might be looking to capitalize upon social gaming in its next MMO through Facebook. It’s a smart move. Not only are games more fun when you know people playing it in real life, but knowing people in-game also makes it easier to convince people to subscribe. Integrating Facebook into Titan in one way or another would go a long way towards facilitating both.
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Blizzards next MMO will require you to drink the kool-aid if you want to cancel your account.
Anyway I am really interested on what this game will develop into. Keeping my eye on it.
Sent me an email if you want me to mail you some pizza rolls.
Another confirmation that their next MMO will be multi clustered server play combined through BattleNet.
You will be able to play with RL friends, the playing field will no longer be cut by single realms/levels/ etc ..
Friends that play together stay together.
I am very curious to see the game. though, I must be honest, I find myself developing an irrational dislike of all thigns blizzard over the past few years. I haveno explaination or excuse.
Between this Titan project and World of Darkness, guess which I find more appealing. And we know pretty much nothing about either project.
Btw OP, interesting attempt at making your post look "official".
Agree. OP, next time add quotation marks. When I read "That changed yesterday.." I thought "what? thats old news" but then realised you just copy/pasted the entire article..
Eat me!
Facebook integration? Leave it to Blizzard to take another step forward in dumbing down and genericizing the genre (if that turns out to be true). FB integration has been involved with the total decline and quality in so many things (see news sites that allow FB comments), I really don't want to see the leader of this genre start heading down that road!
I really hope that *insert game name here* will be the first game to ever live up to all of its pre-release promises, maintain a manageable hype level and have a clean release. Just don't expect me to hold my breath.
Hmm, to me that means 2 things. Social gaming with links to battle.net and facebook yes. But it also sounds a lot like a CORPG.
Wonder how massive the game will really be? Like Wow or GW? Or more open like EQ?
It sounds a little like it might be close to GW but drawing any conclusions on that vague comment is of course not that smart.
It will be interesting to see what Blizzard is cooking up and what they really mean with social gaming. It might be somewhat risky to focus too much on facebook, medias like it can be huge one day and gone the next like all the sites that came before FB.
The fact that it *might* intergrate facebook is a bad sign IMO.
Why use facebook anyway? The only people that use facebook are the one's looking for a mate anyhow.
Sorry but this facebook fad is absurdly over-rated. I know not one person that I game with that uses facebook.
Hehe, would be amusing to see Bliz put all their eggs in the FB basket just to see it eclipsed by the next-big-thing the way FB eclipsed Myspace.
Warhammer fanatic since '85.
I would doubt it NOT being on facebook at this point.
Not sure what the negative reaction is about.
Some games are more enjoyable (esp if it is an MMO) if you play with friends. To acknowledge that and go from there seems like a good game design.
Gdemami -
Informing people about your thoughts and impressions is not a review, it's a blog.
The negative reaction isn't about the statement, but the conclusions (specifically FB integration) drawn from said statement.
I really hope that *insert game name here* will be the first game to ever live up to all of its pre-release promises, maintain a manageable hype level and have a clean release. Just don't expect me to hold my breath.
Where will I buy my gold from then? /chuckle
When 99% of your players don't want RealID, pushing facebook and "social gaming" down people's troath is the next logical step?
I will have what you are having please ^^.
Facebook is the number one most visited website in the world.
All Blizzard (or its mother company whatevs) has is major € / $ on their minds.
So why wouldn't they?
Haha, yeah.
Geez, another Facebook trash. Facebook meets Blizzard, sounds like a sure formula for me to stay away. =P
People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert
Whatever type of game this is you can be sure Blizzard will do the popular thing and dumb it down for the masses as always. It is the Blizzard way not to innovate and do the popular things because they sell better.
Also, yes this is nothing mroe than a piece of information I found on the internet that i am sharing. If I did not copy/paste the facts the Blizzard fanboys would start yelling troll and say I'm making thigns up. Damned if you do and damned if you don't!
Its al a complot and conspiracy to controll your social life so everything will besoon connected to facebook twitter and other social networks if you wanne do something you have to be a part of there social network or no playing games or going to news sites game forums or whatever they will controll you if you like it or not other solution is leave internet and your smartphone and live like we did 15 years ago hehe.
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009.....
In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
I guess I'm part of that mere 1% that likes RealID.
Or prehaps you made that statistic up your ass.
That's why your name is "Sanity888" instead of your real name?
That argument makes no sense. By that case of logic, World of Warcraft would also have to remove unique character names as well. I prefer having a forum-based name as well as my real name, got a problem with that? In WoW I'm, "Etylly" (based on my name), a level 30 Goblin rogue on the Emerald Dream server. I would never name myself Ethan in a MMORPG because then I wouldn't be role-playing. Sure, these are forums and we are not role-playing here, but I prefer to have a forum-based name as well as my real name.
But hell, I'm not ashamed of it.
My real life name is Ethan Tyler Reilly. (I'm changing it to O'Reilly eventually, that was the original family name before we moved to America)
Here is my Facebook: Clicky
Here is my Twitter: Clicky
Here is my YouTube: Clicky
Here is my Formspring: Clicky
I don't see the problem with having any of these. I would really enjoy it if Blizzard added Facebook features (I made a thread about this once) to allow me to make friends around where I live, instead of playing with strangers. (I don't really have any real-life friends so these things don't help me very much - for now).
Great for you, maybe you are a saint who has never done anything wrong. I am not and if I want a job somewhere I don't want my boss to get 10 pages of info about my personal life.
What does this have to do with the functionality of a MMO? Blizzard added an optional feature. You don't have to use it if you don't want to.
Secondly, I am not a saint either. I am terrible at making YouTube videos. I may look decent but I stutter a lot and do a lot of uhm and ah-in in my videos. But I am not very eloquent in real life either so I prefer to show who I truly am. Besides, you control what people see, if you don't want to put in some personal details of your life you don't have to. Or what, are you ashamed of your name or something? Doesn't make sense. As long as you have the control over your information, I don't see the problem in joining these sites. They are a great way too make online relationships (and I do not necessarily mean romantic ones).
Why am I not suprised that Blizzard no longer gets that mmos are meant to be 'social gaming' anyway.
Holy shit you will be able to play with your facebook friends? Cool then we will all be able to ignore the fuck out of the rest of the games players, fantastic.
Titan, 12 million players...ignore them all!!!
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