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  • AmalaricAmalaric Member Posts: 480
    Originally posted by Korusus

    SC: II looks like it may be close to being finished.  Blizzard is a large enough company to work on multiple projects.  I wouldn't be surprised if they were working on a Starcraft MMO to follow on the heels of SC: II.  Just like WoW and WC: III.  So while the OP was wrong about what was announced on the 19th, that doesn't mean he was wrong about Blizzard working on a SC MMO.



    It's a marketer's wetdream.



    Let it go, it's just a pipe dream.

    The next Blizzard announcement will be Lost Vikings 3 and no, it won't be a MMO.

    (ok, I might be trolling here but just a little) 

  • KorususKorusus Member UncommonPosts: 831
    Originally posted by Amalaric

    Originally posted by Korusus

    SC: II looks like it may be close to being finished.  Blizzard is a large enough company to work on multiple projects.  I wouldn't be surprised if they were working on a Starcraft MMO to follow on the heels of SC: II.  Just like WoW and WC: III.  So while the OP was wrong about what was announced on the 19th, that doesn't mean he was wrong about Blizzard working on a SC MMO.



    It's a marketer's wetdream.



    Let it go, it's just a pipe dream.

    The next Blizzard announcement will be Lost Vikings 3 and no, it won't be a MMO.

    (ok, I might be trolling here but just a little) 



    Hey, the Lost Vikings rock! 



    That would definitley be a WoW killer.  In fact, I'm going to start hyping it as a WoW killer... /em goes to troll WoW forums.

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  • elvenangelelvenangel Member Posts: 2,205
    Originally posted by Shastra

    I don't know why people think its a rumor. Its for real. On may 19th they will reveal STARCRAFT MMO. And before you say i am just yip yapping i know its true, because i know an employee from Blizzard and he told me that they have been working on Starcraft Mmo for last 4 years and the concept for it was developed even before WOW and that WOW was never the first choice of Blizzard.
    You're eithe rkicking yourself right now and crying...or just crying with joy they're doing a Starcraft 2 even if its not an MMO.  I'm glad its not an MMO personally...WoW was crappy enough its their regular games that rule way more.  *cheers for starcraft 2*

    Please Refer to Doom Cat with all conspiracies & evil corporation complaints. He'll give you the simple explination of..WE"RE ALL DOOMED!

  • StanlyManlyStanlyManly Member Posts: 181
    Phew, its not an MMO.  I guess I can plan other things for the next 3 years of my life then.

    Equal opportunity troll.

  • LifePositiveLifePositive Member UncommonPosts: 130

    There has never been a time in the history of Blizzard Entertainment that they have worked on only a single game. Always two, at least. They have been hiring for both RTS and MMO developers and announced their interest in creating a next-gen MMO in a completely different style then World of Warcraft...



    Starcraft 2, an RTS, has been announced... And there was much rejoicing. It's been in development since 2003.



    Their MMO is in the works. I promise you this. I don't need a friend/family/psychic-mind-leech in Blizzard to tell you this.



    There is nothing wrong with competing with yourself. Look at NCsoft, look at SOE, look at Funcom; all of them work on several MMOs at once and run them concurrently. A lot of people pay for more then one MMO and many pay for more then one account. Not only does running two P2P games at once guarantee you a greater market share, but it often doubles your income from much of your existing player base. Blizzard WILL make another juggernaut that will once again shake the very foundations of the industry... Love them or hate them, they own this genre.

    And you know what? They earned it.

    “How do you kill that which has no life?”

  • GameloadingGameloading Member UncommonPosts: 14,182
    Still, I don't remember Blizzard ever working on 2 games at the same time from the same franchise.
  • zaykodroidzaykodroid Member Posts: 220
    Originally posted by Sawtooth

    They could be working on it in without telling anyone. Starcraft 2 has apparently been in development since Frozen Throne, that means they've been doing it without telling while working on WoW and Burning Crusade.



    I know this because I work for Blizzard. I get all the inside information. Next comes a Starcraft MMORPG, then a Lost Vikings MMORPG ftw, then a new Blackthorn game. Now, I'm not a programer or anything technical over here at Blizzard. I don't work with the computers or anything, I just get to see the stuff as I do my job. I'm what you call a fluffer, you see in my line of work we....
    ok, Do you know anybody from Bioware?
  • LifePositiveLifePositive Member UncommonPosts: 130
    Originally posted by Gameloading

    Still, I don't remember Blizzard ever working on 2 games at the same time from the same franchise.
    Huh? World of Warcraft was announced September 2, 2001 and released November 23, 2004.



    Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos was released July 3, 2002 and The Frozen Throne was released July 1, 2003.



    World of Warcraft was developed simultaneously alongside both Warcraft 3 and it's expansion pack, especially considering that WoW was in development long before it was announced. Kinda hard to miss that... Ghost was in development along the way, too. It was announced September 20, 2002, work on Starcraft 2 began in 2003 immediately after the release of The Frozen Throne which means for a while the two games were developed side-by-side as well. Or, at the very least, Ghost was nixed to put more effort behind Starcraft 2.



    While I doubt their MMO is going to be a Starcraft game, it is not at all beyond the realm of possibility. I would suspect that Diablo is more likely, except that most of the original developers quit to work on Hellgate: London. Something new?

    “How do you kill that which has no life?”

  • bahamut1bahamut1 Member Posts: 614
    Originally posted by Manveru





    While I doubt their MMO is going to be a Starcraft game, it is not at all beyond the realm of possibility. I would suspect that Diablo is more likely, except that most of the original developers quit to work on Hellgate: London. Something new?
    While I don't doubt they may be working on some type of a MMO, they certainly won't release one until the judge makes a decision. WoW was a big success and I have no doubt they will take advantage of that market, but it also opened a whole can of worms, and Blizzard/Vivendi isn't going to go into another MMO blind again. They are definitely going to get some legal decisions and the law on their side before doing this again.

    "Granted thinking for yourself could be considered a timesink of shorter or longer duration depending on how smart..or how dumb you are."

  • ElgarethElgareth Member Posts: 588
    Originally posted by Shastra

    I don't know why people think its a rumor. Its for real. On may 19th they will reveal STARCRAFT MMO. And before you say i am just yip yapping i know its true, because i know an employee from Blizzard and he told me that they have been working on Starcraft Mmo for last 4 years and the concept for it was developed even before WOW and that WOW was never the first choice of Blizzard.
    Wow, you are SO RIGHT!

    Oh wait, no, you aren't.

    Starcraft 2 is a RTS.



    Sorry, you lost my respect ^_^
  • howiegoohowiegoo Member Posts: 10
    I hope they are working on a StarCraft MMO! This wouldn't be the first time Blizzard kept a game under wraps while it was being developed. One can only hope.
  • flame-manflame-man Member Posts: 58
    dude go to www.worldofwarcraft.com and click starcraft 2 the screen shots show that it is rts not mmo

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