World of Warcraft

Originally posted by Azrile

You must be having fits thinking about Bioware (another great company) using Star Wars for it's new MMORPG.   Talk about milking.. not only are they using an old IP, they are using one that already has a MMORPG.

If Blizzard launches  Universe of Starcraft, it will surpass even WOW.

I agree.

When Blizzard will launch a new MMO, probably in 2011, it will take 5 million western subscriptions in its first week or so.

Everyone will be on it. I also hope for a science fiction theme. But as Star Trek is already taken I hope for a complete new universe.

SC in my opinion is not good enough for an MMORPG. People want to play humanoid races in MMORPG's.

But imagine: a space opera with each 3/6 months new planets and world to discover.... Wow.

And I'll bet you they will include Wow in the same subscription package ! So they'll have the complete fantasy and SF MMORPG market.

But still 3 more years and I hope the next few years will see at least better competitor products than we had to endure lately.

In late 2007 blizzard started preparing their team. 

http://www.gamingsteve.com/archives/2007/12/blizzard-confirms-new-mmorpg-and-i-have-details.php

I just hope that its uber leet. Because it will probably release while im in college!!!

Most likely alot of diablo 3 information ( cant wait for d3 ) .

I can't wait till D3 either. I remember so many good times playing on Battle.net with my Amazon mowing hordes of enemies down with my multi arrow's, or teleporting around with my mage and mass nuking them to dust. I'd still be playing it if more of my friends still had their install disks and weren't already playing WoW all day.

They probably won't announce it. But it'll probably be out as soon as WoW dies off. Probably Starcraft Universe or something.

That'd be pretty cool. Would be interesting how they'd manage classes and races on it as well. I know i wouldn't mind playing as zerg, and bringing original meaning back into the phrase "Zerging".

Originally posted by coffee

In less than 24 hours Blizzcon 2008 kicks off (october 10-11) .. will blizzard reveal or give us some clues about their new MMO is in developmen? They revealed Diablo3 this year already so are blizzard goona give us more stuff to look forward to?

As a side note, PLEASE PLEASE blizzard reveal plans for a Starcraft2 beta this year.. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.

They wont, it would hurt the sales of their new expansion. BLizzard (and Bioware too for that matter) always keeps their new games secret until they almost are done with the beta.

Say that it is Wow 2 or World of Diablo, it could lower their sales of the ew epansions as people are waiting for the new game instead, it is not smart to compete with yourself.

It was 2 years ago when the rumour started on the net because Blizz hired in a lot of new people for a "project", if We assume that is their new MMO (at lest not too far fetched, at this time Blizz already had loads of money) then the game should be ready in 3-5 years, because Blizz are not the fastest dev and have really no reason to hurry the game as long as wow sells good.

They might off course speed up the time by hiring in a load of people, after all they can afford it, in that case it might be ready in 2 year but even then it is still more likely they announce it next year.

Its been reported from Blizzcon that this new MMO will not be shown any time soon(maybe Blizzcon 2009) and it will be completely original.

However, even though Blizzard has stated multiple times that there is no Starcraft MMO planned rumors of a Starcraft MMO will persist(like they have been for the past year).

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Originally posted by Xiaoki
Its been reported from Blizzcon that this new MMO will not be shown any time soon(maybe Blizzcon 2009) and it will be completely original.
However, even though Blizzard has stated multiple times that there is no Starcraft MMO planned rumors of a Starcraft MMO will persist(like they have been for the past year).

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Blizzard's "secret project" confirmed to be a new MMO with a brand new universe, but we won't hear anything about it before a while.

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Finally a new Blizzard IP, tired of warcraft, starcraft, and diablo. (though I still look forward to sc2 and diablo 3)