Blizz's next mmo

TBH I think those holding out for Diablo are in for a long wait. As has already been mentioned, WoW's success is in attracting new players to both the world and the genre. They are likely to capitalise on this for some time. Doing another MMORPG in a similar genre is going to reduce the income / effort for them, changing the theme (SC style) will perhaps net some new players but will also dilute the current WoW player base. I would put money on it being a persistent environment but with a very different play style, perhaps an MMORTS?

I heard that they are trying to hire software eng's to try to figure out how to get rid of the banks. The word is that old skool diablo players will cancel their accounts 1 month out of 12 because they just don't trust "the man" to hold their loot. They are all trying to find a nice peaceful empty town with an unwatched well to pile of of their loot in...

Would be great if Blizz buys a Shadowrun licence and make the game like WoW but now as a Cyberpunk mmo :)

WoW becomes so much add on that the player lvl is raising to lvl100 i think. After this we can dream about wow2.
Starcraft 2 comes ont next. And if we look into the blizz history so must the next game be Diablo3 or maybe a complet new game :)

I want my goddamned GI JOE mmo! I've screaming it from the frakkin rooftops for years now! Somebody, somebodyyyyy.... please get the liscense and do it justice!

Yes, GI Joe was the glue of my childhood universe. So what.

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Originally Posted by 'Poolboy',index.php?page=Thread&postID=44225#post4 4225

I want my goddamned GI JOE mmo! I've screaming it from the frakkin rooftops for years now! Somebody, somebodyyyyy.... please get the liscense and do it justice!

Yes, GI Joe was the glue of my childhood universe. So what.

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GI Joe I don't know about.... but He-man could DEFINITELY be an MMO. That was the glue to my childhood.

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Originally Posted by 'Poolboy',index.php?page=Thread&postID=44225#post4 4225

I want my goddamned GI JOE mmo! I've screaming it from the frakkin rooftops for years now! Somebody, somebodyyyyy.... please get the liscense and do it justice!

Yes, GI Joe was the glue of my childhood universe. So what.

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I can relate - that would be awesome.

good money is on a StarCraft MMO

WarCraft III lead to World of Warcraft
StarCraft II will lead to StarCraft MMO

they are going to set up the story for the MMO with StarCraft II, which is part of the reason it has taken them so long to bring out StarCraft II, because they are working on the StarCraft MMO at the same time, although the StarCraft MMO probably won't hit until into 2010.
expect Korea's productivity to drop off significantly after 2010.

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Originally Posted by 'ScytheNoire',index.php?page=Thread&postID=45388#p ost45388

expect Korea's productivity to drop off significantly after 2010.

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QFT. Those Koreans are serious about their starcraft.

It'd be really nice if they came up with a completely new concept that wasn't based on an existing franchise, but it seems to me that Blizzard likes money too much to do that. Whatever they make, it's pretty much a given that their product will be nicely polished and playable, even if it's unoriginal garbage underneath. They're good at Quality Control.

Fingers crossed for innovation, but I aint expecting any.

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It'd be really nice if they came up with a completely new concept that wasn't based on an existing franchise, but it seems to me that Blizzard likes money too much to do that. Whatever they make, it's pretty much a given that their product will be nicely polished and playable, even if it's unoriginal garbage underneath. They're good at Quality Control.

Fingers crossed for innovation, but I aint expecting any.

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Blizz doesn't really seem like much of a risk taker. They really like to bet on "the sure thing".