Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Quick Links
Will Blizzard EVER make a "World of Diablo" or otherwise a Diablo MMORPG?
EgaoNoGenki
Member Posts: 397
Having played Diablo but never any of the Warcraft line of games, will there ever be a Diablo MMO? Many millions of Diablo fans are probably wanting for one.
Diablo was a success like the Warcraft line of games so why doesn't Blizzard also make a Diablo MMO?
Warning: I could be on NoDoz caffeine pills so I hope I don't post anything outrageous!
Comments
Probably because Diablo is dead. They'd have to create a different name for it and all, thus not being a Diablo game at all.
Looking for something new.
They just started hiring for staff of Diablo 3, according to the "job openings" section of their website recently.
So saying Diablo is dead is far from the truth.
Besides, the Diablo series is one of the highest selling PC game series of all time. I highly doubt they'd just abandon it entirely.
But, I do highly doubt a "World of Diablo" will EVER see the light of day.
Really? is diablo 3 comming someday? "world of diablo" would still be a good idea.
i say no,the reson being WoW was an rts, you have many units, aill with diffent skill level and ablitys. that trans lates to an mmo faily well. all player char can be part of the army in some sence. they are not all uber but they all are decent. Now in diablo there is a problem with this. In Diablo you are the one to the 8 Uber chars, even the mercs are crap compaired to you.
the franches IMHO would not be able to stand the whole every one's a BA (bad @$$) witch is what happens in an mmo but if i saw it and had the money, speed, and internet connection i would probbly give world of diablo a shot 
I would say no because the Diablo universe is pretty generic for a Blizzard game. When they've got the choice between that or the Warcraft Universe it seems to be a pretty easy decision to make what would be a more interesting game. Plus I'm pretty sure Blizzard doesn't want to even think of another MMORPG for a long time (and if they do, hopefully it will be something very interesting such as the Starcraft universe). Probably your best bet right now would be to try Guild Wars.
Currently:
Playing: WOW & GW
It wont be for years until they worry about another MMORPG. They have enough to deal with right now. But I do think a Starcraft MMORPG might turn out pretty well but there isnt much of a point to worry about it right now.
Currently:
Playing: WOW & GW
Besides, the Diablo series is one of the highest selling PC game series of all time. I highly doubt they'd just abandon it entirely.
A game in which you kill yellow skeletons so you can move to the next area where you get to kill pink skeletons and later on face a big blue skeleton that fires fireballs from it's ass is one of the highest selling PC games of all time....
People are hopeless.
Actually, there's no fact to back up the whole 'Diablo 3' thing. If you look on their job listings, they're merely hiring people to work with the team that 'worked on Diablo 1 and 2.'
While that could be seen as a big hint, it's really just speculation.
interesting
Diablo has no ground-breaking story really, not much races, basically all human and the world of it isn't that groundbreaking either.
You must be stupid or something.
Warcraft is just a generic Tolkien rip off with tinker and gnomes. Only thing that seperates Warcraft from the flok is Samewise and Metzens brilliant art design. Don't type, if you don't have anything useful to say, troll!
Diablo 2 is a hugh succes. At least it took an interesting take on hell vs heaven. Im getting sick of orcs, elfs and dwarfs and all that.
The hole anti christ and mood in Diablo was much darker.
Diablo 2 has sold over 18 million copies today. Thats 10 millions more than starcraft and about 5-6 more than all Warcraft games put together.
Diablo 2 is still a hugh succes among the people who refuse to play a monthly fee, aswell as does who like fast paced real time combat.
Arguable you can say that WoW is not a much more complicated game than Diablo. Both have allot in common, in their gameplay mechanic structure.
And if you think about it.. WoW still does not give you things that Diablo does not.
You go out and kill stuff and do Quests... Thats pretty much the basic guideline from both games.
But hardly that can be considered "RPG's".
And as a note, I think the Diablos novels are much more sold than the Warcraft ones.
Will Blizzard do a Diablo 3? WHy the hell should they? If they made a great online RPG which would be free they would be stealing money from themselfs.
The best thing Blizzard can do is to make as much money as possible.
In the last two months Blizzard has made over 30 Million dollars based alone on monthly fee. With a userbase with over 1,5 million players, who pays a 15 bucks monthly fee, it simply means that Blizzard is rich.
10% of the total income from games a year(roughly 10 billion), is from MMORPGs. Thats pretty crazy. In the end it is a hugh scam that we pay, monthly.. no way that the content and GM staff costs 30 million dollars a month, lol.
Point is - If they make Diablo 3 it probably wont be online!
It might be Warcraft 4 or starcrat 2. It has also been said that they might pick up Starcraft: Ghost and finish the game itself, or it might have been canceled similiar to Warcraft Adventures, did back in the day.
Remember that many of the original Blizzard people have left Blizz! Its not the same company as it was 5-6 Years ago. Still, it is a company based around allot of talented people. Or that depends if you think their abillity to fix bugs, talk to their community, add content and so on, so far, has been "talented".
It's just that, with Warcraft, I never knew they could do so much with a game that used to be a RTS.
Diablo always took place in a dark world. Would they be able to add as much content and variety of maps in World of Diablo like they did in World of Warcraft?
Not to mention the races. We always played humans, there was no other race. If they wanted to add more races, they'd just be doing what they are already doing in WoW. So to create a game with more races, considering in Diablo 1 & 2 we were always killing other NPC races, they'd have to do something where those "evil" characters suddenly formed an alliance with the humans. Or better yet, there's only 2 sides... the good, which are only humans, and the good which would have dark elves, trolls and the like.
Then you'd have people and reviews complaining World of Diablo lacks races compared to the common fantasy MMORPG.
You know what I think Blizzard should do? Make World of Diablo a World of Warcraft expansion! With all the classes that were in Diablo but weren't in WoW, like the NECROMANCER! I mean come on, where's the Necromancer class in WoW?? Then you'd have a new dimension (the dark gothic world of Diablo) you can visit with your WoW character and guess who's the big Level 300 elite boss at the end? You guessed it... Diablo himself! And maybe his brothers... even if they were killed... it'd be fun to kill'em again with the World of Warcraft 3D engine!
I mean think of the storyline! Somehow the world of Warcraft and the world where Diablo takes place colide, a portal has been opened, and the humans of the world of Diablo need the aid of the people in Azeroth to destroy Diablo, again, once and for all. But it doesn't stop there, Diablo himself sees the evil in Azeroth, thus he asks for the aid of the Horde! Oh yeah!
Okay so that would be so extreme... but hey, this is Blizzard we're talking about here! If Nintendo can make a fighting game called Smash Brothers, or Capcon, Marvel and SNK can make make all their fighters battle it out, or SquareSoft can take all their characters and mix'em up with Disney... why can't Blizzard mix their two most popular games ever made into 1 world?
As long as they don't make something like: "World of Warcraft : The portal to Starcraft Expansion" ... now THAT would just make no sense.
___________ ___ __ _ _ _
Stealth - Ambush - Hemorrhage - Sinister Strike x2 - Cold Blood - Eviscerate - Vanish - Preparation - Cold Blood - Ambush - ... you're dead! :P
They already have enough problems with WoW so i don't see a Diablo MMO. Besides The Warcraft universe is much more...epic.
God, I certainly don't hope so. It costs enough resources to run even once MMORPG, let alone too. Let Blizzard get the hang of this one before adding another to the mix. Besides, the Warcraft universe is much more in-depth and fun to base an MMORPG on.
Probably because Diablo is dead. They'd have to create a different name for it and all, thus not being a Diablo game at all.
Now now, so many times evil has died and returned, he was really just taking a nap after getting his ass kicked. Diablo will be back again.
- Scaris
"What happened to you, Star Wars Galaxies? You used to look like Leia. Not quite gold bikini Leia (more like bad-British-accent-and-cinnamon-bun-hair Leia), but still Leia nonetheless. Now you look like Chewbacca." - Computer Gaming World
this topic might had a sense BEFORE WoW got announced.
But now i do not see it feasible that Blizzard produce and support 2 Fantasy MMorpgs, even if Diablo is markedly more dark and gothic than Warcraft. Fantasy is Fantasy. (and the Undercity/Undead section of the Warcraft world is quite creepy and dark by its own.
What they could do is World of Starcraft of course
a Sci-Fi mmorpg would be very nice as there is a distinctive lack of this (probably because Sci-Fi remove lots of boundaries and to make such a game as it should be, it involve a loads of different aspects... that ususally are ignored. EVE and E&B for exampel focused on Ship game, but you were (are for EVE) left with the question "why i cannot explore the planets??", AO focus on the Cyber aspect, but you ask yourself why vehicles are not more common and useful and where the heck is the rest of the universe? SWG is the only one having two aspects together plus vehicles.. but that is like 1 Mmorpg in a sea).
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"
I always love posts like this. Let me respond.
This gives you away. You feel personally offended, because someone attacked your favorite game. Unfortunately, this leaves you wide open to spread misinformation, as I will illustrate.
First off, what's wrong with that, really? If a game featured humans and shotguns, would that be a rip-off from real life? Personally, I don't ever get sick of elves and dwarves, but that's just me.
Opinions differ. Apart from this, although there are lots of things that seperate the world of Warcraft from other fictional universes, it's not terribly original. Still, it's lots of fun and a enjoyable fair with a reasonably in-depth history.
Pot calling the kettle black.
Highly doubtful. Very successful games sell over a million games and that means it's a SMASH HIT. I have a very hard time believing Diablo 2 including all expansion packs ever surpassed 10 million. That said, it's still a mammoth amount of units sold, far more than World of Warcraft. Of course, MMORPG's are among the least popular games and within the MMORPG genre, WoW broke all records.
Not quite true. For one, WoW provides a large persistent world, unlike Diablo 2. WoW offers quests that aren't instanced, massive PvP battles, 3D graphics, raid content and many other things. Also, as WoW is a MMORPG, customers can expect new content and features. Before you start complaining about Blizzard breaking promises on this, let's just wait and see until the game sorts itself out as is usual for an MMORPG when it launches. Fact remains, MMORPG's are a very different beast than non-massive online games.
It's just one aspect of WoW, as I explained above. For Diablo, it's pretty much all there is to it. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing.
Let's start out with what you consider an RPG. There are much more complex games out there, but still I would personally still count WoW among RPG's. Diablo is not; it's a hack and slash game, which are fun too.
I don't have any hard figures on that, but more power to the Diablo series I guess. I've read a few Warcraft books and they were alright. Not great, but still fun.
I agree with you on this. Still, a small part of a company's decisions should come from simple love of gaming, in my opinion. If it's bad for business, though, they wouldn't do it and they shouldn't.
Incredibly naive, that. I've been waiting for this comment.
I've seen so many of them and they make me smile. You have no idea what it costs to run an MMORPG. Blizzard may or may not have their return investment back, but World of Warcraft has not made them significantly richer than they already were so far. In the coming months, it probably will.
You're forgetting much of the costs of servers, (expensive) administrators, hosting, support, bandwidth. You're also underestimating on-going development cost and initial investment cost. These games burn huge amoutns of resources and you should look behind the scenes some time to get an appreciation for what MMORPG companies are pulling off.
Actually, most of the important people are still around. That means that the ones still leading the company right now are the founders of Blizzard, creative director Chris Metzen who designed the Warcraft universe is still around, Paul Sams is there and the employees with the shortest amount of years at Blizzard still have about 7/8 years. So essentially your comment is way off mark.
You belong to a vast group of whiners that only see the bad things when they break without acknowledging it when they are fixed. Blizzard acknowledges their problems and claim to be working hard to fix it. Let's wait if Blizzard lives up to its reputation before making accusations.