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Has Blizzard a secret MMO
zimboy69
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Ive been thinking about this for a while
A few reasons why they wouldnt tell anyone about this, according to there figure have in the region 10 million players all paying $10 thats a $100 million a month.
In any terms thats a lot of money even if they are only earning half this it still a large amount of money so why would they rock the boat.
I started wondering what they would do when a killer mmo comes out or even a collection of mmo come out and blizzard starts to lose millions of players a month
i dont know who or what game will kill wow or even reduce there numbers but due to the fact graphics have moved on and new game ideas are comming out all the time. The end of wow being at these numbers might take 1-10 more years but at some point it will reduce
They have been lucky that either all new mmos that have been released unfinished and released with very little content or they are trying to be wow clone
I really am wondering if during the past 4-5 years they have been making a new mmo
It would be more crazy if they havent been making one
lets be fair most good mmos take at least 2-4 years to make so if that killer comes out are they going to just going to say oh well we now need to make a new one
think about it this way if you was blizzard wouldnt you be making a new mmo for the time your super mmo dies a 100+ million a month is a lot of money to lose
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They've told us they are.
Blizzard's next MMO or Next-Gen MMO as referred by Blizzard has been in the shadow for years, the first evidence of its existence was a job ad listing in Blizzard's site mid of 2007. Since then, through official sources here is what we know about Blizzard's top secret MMO:
It's not going to be a WoW expansion.
It will be based on a brand new IP (new story & lore).
Several people of the WoW team have joined Next Gen MMO's team.
This MMO targets to a broader audience than WoW.
Clues from job ads indicate that it will be a Science Fiction/Sci Fi MMO. In the past Kaplan, who revealed he is involved in the project, was asked if the game's genre would be science fiction, post-apocalyptic, or historical, and while laughing he responded: "all of those combined!"" [1]
Check out everything known about Blizzard's new MMO in detail.
http://www.blizzardnewmmo.com/
It's not a secret when most gamers know that Blizzard is working on a new MMO.
If it's not broken, you are not innovating.
I sure hope they have a different type of MMO in queue maybe a good MMORTS based on starcraft
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The name of the game is still a secret. This is so intriguing. Blizzard has just launched SC 2 and still haven't released Diablo 3, and now they're having a new MMO.
Don't get too bent out of shape about it. It'll probably be a year or two before we even start getting details about it, and three or four years before it's released.
the thing that bothers me is the part where they say they are aiming for a broader audience than wow.
so a game that already had the older playerbase, that then dumbed down the game to get the younger players.....are now going for aliens?
serioously. the only way they can go after a larger player base is if it is a facebook type game.
god I hope it isnt that.
or, gasp, they'll release it on PC and consoles....you know that will suck
How the deal with their games in cuurent times (milking it) is that not an indication to stay away from anything they might make?
I suspect that if that game comes that will take away a large playerbase that playerbase will be gone forever, they might not want to go back to the Blizzard they know now.
World of Starcraft what else game can they make into an mmo?
If I recall correctly, they already stated they will never do a WoS.
NEWS FLASH! PAYING THE SUB IN F2P = NO DIFFERENCE THAN P2P GAMES!
Why the hell can't the whiners comprehend this?
Diablo 3 and Blizzard's next MMO are 2 of the most anticipated things of Blizzcon .. Hopefully it will be a Sci-Fi MMO..
Hmmm yeah theres D3 I guess it qualifies as an MMO now but I wish they would develop/revisit the Blackthorne francise
Only one thing is for sure. Whether it's a new mmo or not, it's gonna be a great game!
Pretty sure its been confirmed its a sci fi mmo
LOL! lost vikings online
maybe i wasnt clear
but if you was bliz wouldnt you have your mmo ready by now incase the new killer mmo comes out
they have had at least a few years to develope it already there not short of money
lets say killer mmo is release just before xmas what they going to do just sit around and wait for 2 years and play catch up
i seriously have a feeling not only do they have a mmo but its probably ready for release
but it also means they can keep developing it in peace and without any hassle from gamers
i also think if a killer mmo is release there would be roughly 6 months from the killer mmo to the release of bliz new mmo
3 months to see player figures drop then 3 months hype for the new mmo
Maybe a World Of Starcraft, would catch my eye, as it is Sci-Fi. you start out as either a james raynor's revolutionnaire or as a dominion soldier, both of em fighting the zerg and occasionally engaging on humanvshuman battles. You start out as a stupid civilian with a pistol and catridges of 7 bullets each (TPS type game). Your mission is to go through your colony (formerly controled either by dominion or revolution according to your choices), which was attacked by a big zerg force (this would be the tutorial of course) and get to a place at the other side of the colony's city you live in which is helped by the human side you chose at your character creation to ask for evacuation, along hte way you're given either tips from a radio you found on the streets, or by some sort of installed broadcasting voice in the city for emergencies. when you get to the safeplace you are given a bulletproof vest and the choice of grabbing either a shotgun or a upgraded pistol, after grabbing the armor and weapons the captain tells you he'll send a squad to a nearby bunker to extract some important papers, and asks if you want to help, you can either choose to help, or leave, if you choose to help he'll give you some money and some gloves.
When you finish the initial part of the tutorial, the armored bus that was getting you to the space port is disabled and you get to be in charge with the help of 2 other soldiers of getting the civilians on foot to the space port, this part supposedly teaches you how to scort people, a function needed in some future quests. When you get to the space port, you end the tutorial and are given the choice to be transported to 2 planets, 1 where the fight is against revolution or other where the fight is against zerg.
Of course this is just a stupid opinion of me and it won't be like this nad sounds like a crazy post. Anyways i'm prepared for flaming
DuckRoll
I'd be down to actually BE a zerg.
Make a 3 faction system like DAoC, throw Zerg, Protoss and Terrans in and I'd be down.
Seriously, you guys are still on about a Starcraft MMO? Blizz has stated that it is a new IP. I've even posted that in this thread.
I didn't say the mmo was going to be about starcraft, i jsut said it would be nice
@ Cooldog: yeah i was going to put that you would be able to play as zerg at the end of the post buti forgot
the tut would be like chasing down dominion soldiers or having to sabotage a human colony
DuckRoll
For 10+ years Blizzard has never made anything from scratch. They have always copied ideas from Games Workshop and everyone else to make their millions. When I actually see something new, which isn't a copy from someone else then I'll believe it. Seeing is believing with Blizzard.
"i seriously have a feeling not only do they have a mmo but its probably ready for release"
you're obviously crazy.. seeing as they announced diablo 3 and that is no where near ready
Actually it would be a good move, having it ready standing by, they'd just have to do a few betas and that would take like 5 months max i tihnk. Nice move it would be, in case of an emergency o.o
DuckRoll
I dont thinks they have another MMO asides from Diablo 3 maybe after but we do sure have lots of fun ideas ^_^