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StarCraft MMORPG to be announced May 19th?
Realm-Reaper
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Is this true?...I just saw it on the SWG forums. It said Blizzard was set to make to announcment.
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No they said their next mmorpg wont be like WOW and will be innovative and there will be a new Starcraft game. They went to Korea to announce a new game and i think it'll obviously be :
Starcraft 2 - Why would they go to Korea to announce anything else?
I think this is great news for those of us who love SCI-FI and hate Fantasy.
It will be interesting to see if they can eat the cake and have it too.
Starcraft the RTS was a huge success. They might want to keep the RTS player base.
And wouldn't just remaking WoW with a Starcraft setting steal players from WoW?
I just hope they go sand box on us!!!!
It would be good if you can make your own spaceship and control it and invite people on it, just like Jump to Lightspeed in SWG
What do ya think?
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regardless...it is on the way...lol
They are announcing two new games as from what I have heard.
One will be a new "normal" game.
Second one will be a new mmorpg.
I might be wrong but thats what I have heard.
I heard the same...not sure what normal means...console?
I heard the same...not sure what normal means...console?
Means singleplayer. Also, people are only speculating about the mmorpg being based on starcraft thus I wouldn't hold my breath on it, although it would certainly be interesting.-Currently looking forward to FFXIV
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According to CVG, Blizzard will reveal a World StarCraft-style massively multiplayer online title in Korea next month at the Blizzard World Invitational. While many fans of the original StarCraft were probably expecting a proper real-time strategy game to be unveiled, if CVG's "well placed US sources" are to be believed, they're out of luck.
Blizzard previously confirmed that they are indeed announcing a new product in Korea this month and listed open positions for work on an "next-gen MMO."
With the announcement exactly two weeks away from today, we won't have long to wait to see if dreams of an RTS sequel to StarCraft have been dashed. The only thing keeping the fanboy tears from shooting out of my ducts with the force of a hydrant is the delusional hope that Blizzard will be announcing two products next month, one being an RTS. See, I'm not an MMO kind of guy.From Computer and Videogames
The long-rumoured new instalment of Blizzard's massive StarCraft series is set to be unveiled later this month - and it's another massively-multiplayer online game in the style of World of Warcraft, CVG can reveal.
Well placed US sources have revealed to us that the StarCraft MMO will be unveiled at an upcoming Blizzard event on May 19 in South Korea - the epicentre of the sci-fi RTS series' rabid fandom.
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http://mmorpg.qj.net/All-Blizzard-Franchises-will-Become-MMOGs-/pg/49/aid/55958
Not gunna happen..
if your to lazy to click the link
"Recently, Vivendi gave a presentation to Wall Street. A lot of things were mentioned, but this announcement was a standout: "All Blizzard franchises will become MMOGs." And when they said all, they meant ALL! Along with the bold announcement, they also claim that they now have a model to come up with MMOGs in 3 years, and that they are also backed up by a $50 Million budget.
They would be presenting two types of MMOG markets aimed for everyone from the busy executive to the hardcore gamers. The first is the long session games (more than two hours per session) and short session games (less than two hour sessions.) They will also be rolling out a bunch of short session games under the Sierra Online brand. An example is FreeStyle, a pick-up basketball online game scheduled for 2007 release. No details on pricing model for the short session games were announced though.
The "more games and less gamers per game" scenario is something that seems to not be a threat to the company, well if stockbrokers knew more about gaming, then maybe they would have booed the idea right at that moment (ha, ha)!
Blizzard quickly denied the rumors by saying "that rumor is not true in regard to Blizzard...We (Blizzard) believe that the rumor circulating about this subject is based on a misinterpretation of information provided to industry analysts." They also denied that they are developing any MMOGs as of the moment by saying loud and clear that they " do not currently have any MMO development plans beyond the upcoming expansion for World of Warcraft, and furthermore, we don't have any intentions to focus on only one genre or platform with our future games." Nice move indeed!"
That article was posted almost a year ago.
But the current announcement does seem to indicate that they will be announcing a new game in Korea. Whether it is rts or mmopg or Starcraft or not will be seen on May 19th. I live in Korea and I can tell you they are rabid Starcraft fanatics. They have had a television channel devoted to it. All it shows is Starcraft games on it being played by professional players. So if I were a bettting man I would say it is indeed something Starcraft.
So many players have been asking for a sequel that I can't imagine at least one of the games to be announced won't be Starcraft.
My fanboy hysteria aside.. I hope it isn't true but I bet they introduce StarCraft II RTS and Diablo MMO. You might say that diablo would overlap with WOW too much but the themes are vastly different between the two stories and Diablo is a lot lot darker and more adult than warcraft so I don't think it'd be too much of a stretch. I hope my pessimistic views are wrong.
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That leaves enough time for WoW to grow old and when they release Diablo, they can make it complex or not, whatever they want.
'Course it's all speculation.
I would think RTS, though I could be wrong
Just don't be surprised if they suddenly mindscrew us all and revive the Ghost Project. If they did, I would probably break all my Blizzard games in half
That being the case it will be a while before a retail version hits the shelves.