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My take on "StarCraft online"
ValiumSummer
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With World of Warcraft online doing so well, there really isn't a huge incentive for blizzard to develop a new mmorpg in my opinion. I suspect they might feel like a large portion of WoW players would leave WoW to play Starcraft online. Its similar to a walmart deciding not to build two stores in the same town. With 5 million plus+ subscribed now, could they lure another 5 million without cannibalizing thier own subscription base?
Perhaps they are keeping starcraft as the "ace in the hole" for when WoW eventually fades in popularity.
I think I would really enjoy such a game.
I imagine it set in both space and on land.
I would love to play a protoss character!
"My life for Aiur!"
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In short: no.
Very likely, yes. But Blizzard is not known for being agile. If they ever do release Starcraft Online, or Diablo Online, it will probably be later than they should.
Register your wow account with starcraft online. Wow players with a 4 month or older subscription can get a discounted price on starcraft online purchase 20% and can get both games for 20$ a month subscription.
if we lived for another 10 years.
but seriously if blizzard made StarCraft MMO i'll ask Hizbollah to nuke blizzard.
enough is enough.
Blizzard's original WoW devs created a create world with an excellent UI and gameplay feel, but they ruined WOW and turned it into another Everquest clone. Fact is at level 60 WoW does nothing new, it's just one big raid grind with hopeless unfun PVP. They ruined the potential of PVP in WoW. For everything Blizzard has done, they have shown that they have no direction in MMOGs and are not the old blizzard. The success of WoW is much less than it could have been. Yes, I know the numbers.. but I also know the masses who quit because of WoW's hopeless grind end-game. They hired the wrong people to create the end-game design, plain and simple they hired old Everquest junkies.. these junkies made the game involve repeating the same raid over and over, destroying smaller guilds in favor of zerg guilds, and turned PVP into a pure contest of who has better gear. Gear affects PVP in every game, but in WoW they went well over that.. top tier epic gear can easily 1 or 2 shot people in blue gear, that is in essense gray ganking, dumb battles, no skill.. no tactics, no fun. Combine that with the grind battlegrounds, no persistance, only instance.. fight it, it resets, fight it, it resets, wait .. fight.. reset, over and over, mindless and hopeless.
What a dull game. I wouldn't expect Starcraft online to be any different.. a great development, turned into a hopeless boring grind at max level with the most crappy PVP ever to meet MMORPGs.
Sorry to WoW fanboys, I speak my mind and the truth.
Try looking for a document that even mentions it on blizzards web site.
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That is my point Grim. I bet that blizzard is afraid to even mention Starcraft as an mmog. They have WoW running on all cylinders right now. They have dominated the mmorpg market. They have a subsciption base that I have read approaches 6 million. If they created another mmorpg now, I suspect they feel they would be stealing from thier own subscription base. Last thing they want to do is give prospective WoW players a reason to "hold off" on playing or existing WoW players another reason to quit.
I also suspect that perhaps a couple years down the road when WOW is getting long in tooth, Blizzard might whip out the "Starcraft Online" card. But it only makes sense that Blizzard would keep any developement of such a game a big secret.
Starcraft was and still is a HUGE success in the RTS genre, ranking 1 in all time sales @ 9 million copies (for rts games). Starcraft ranks 3rd behind only the Sims and Myst in all time sales numbers. It doesn't take a marketing genius to see the potential there. To say that "Starcraft" is dead and leave it at that is being a bit niave in my opinion.
The point of my post was to express my feelings on why starcraft won't be comming out anytime soon and why. I would bet however that it will someday become an mmorpg. It has to. It's just too popular.
I predict a Q4 2010 release of "Starcraft Online"
Hmmm, http://www.onlinewelten.com/ are today (Aug 26th 2006) are reporting that Blizzard are indeed working on a Starcraft Online MMO.
[Original German]
"Aus geheimer Quelle konnten wir erfahren, dass Blizzard ein
weiteres MMOG plant. Für alle Fans von Starcraft fällt heute wohl
Weihnachten und Ostern auf einen Tag, denn dieses neue MMOG wird Starcraft Online sein.
Zwar können wir keine Informationen liefern, welche Features
das Spiel beinhalten wird, dennoch ist die Entwicklung an sich schon
eine wahre Sensation."
[and the Google translation]
"From secret source we could experience that Blizzard a further MMOG plans. For all fans of Starcraft Christmas and Easter today probably fall on one day, because this new MMOG will be Starcraft on-line one. We cannot supply information, which features the play will contain, yet actually already are the development a true sensation."
(Maybe some of our German speaking friends could translate this a little more accurately for us).
Here is the link http://mmog.onlinewelten.com/index.php?area=94&p=news&newsid=7499#contentbox
Anyone heard anything similar?
"Secret sources" sure sounds dodgy, and so i'm not likely to trust something like this. But I thought I'd chuck it out there anyway so the speculation mill still has something to work with
P.S. - No such announcement on Blizzard site at this time.
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Blizzard denied this. They did cancel Starcraft Ghost, which wasn't an MMO. They have been
working on Diablo 3 for years and from what I've read can't seem to get it right. I would expect to
see D3 release sometime late next year.
How long can WoW survive? 5-6 years? I would imagine by 2010, WoW will be dated and Blizzard will release a new MMO. I don't really see them releasing a new MMO until WoW has matured and it's subscription base has started to decline.