New Blizzard MMORPG!

[HPB]

From all the teaser words they have said so far (not many that is) it seems like they are going to make a Star Trek MMO

Already got a post on this in the MMO forum. There is already a Star Trek MMO in the works (has been for a few years, even switched development companies). startrekonline.com

[Multibocks]

MMO FPS that doesnt suck would be nice.... or a steampunk MMO. Hell, other than Eve, there really isnt a good Scifi MMO either. (Although Eve being "good" is debatable.)


Honestly, I hope they make something that I cant stand the idea of playing, so I dont get hooked again.

[offive]

Hello Kitty vs. Zombie Strippers MMO

[Starbuck_Jones]

In my opinion Blizzard should be brainstorming the next big thing. However they currently have 3 golden child franchises. Warcraft, Diablo, and Starcraft. It would be a risk, but one they should take to expand into a fourth. However I do not feel it should be in the MMO market. In the past there were very few mmo games and the audience was limited. UO, Everquest were really the big ones with about a half dozen that came later that could not touch EQ's numbers. Along comes WoW in an over saturated mmo market all fighting over the same 3-4 million players and it does what no other game did before and that was expand the audience by leaps and bounds.

I think Blizzard is better off makeing wow bigger and better and do what it takes to bring in new customers than to launch a second mmo that will only compete with the former. I would rather see the resources spent on WoW to get content out faster and updateing vanila wow to the current storylines. I think if they launched a new campaign targeting new players like a vanilla server that can only be accessed by these enabled accounts followed by a free character transfer to an established server at 60. Thus they dont have to compete or feel 5 years behind everyone else that plays.

For current customers, they could launch a pair of progression servers with some world event unlocks like AQ to get to BC and Northrend.

[kadaan]

Considering there's really no real information about the game other than that it's in development, I doubt we'll see a release for at least 5 or 6 years. Who knows where WoW will be in that time.

Also, if WoW drops to say, 6 million players by then and the new MMO takes half the playerbase and gains the same amount back, that's still 3m in WoW + 6m in the new MMO for 9m total. I'm sure many of those 3m will keep active WoW subscriptions, so it's win-win for Blizzard.

[Stealthy]

Check this link for info about the new Blizzard MMO:

http://www.theonion.com/content/vide...ts_gamers_play

:P

Cheers,

S.

[Gadzooks]

Considering there's really no real information about the game other than that it's in development, I doubt we'll see a release for at least 5 or 6 years. Who knows where WoW will be in that time.

Also, if WoW drops to say, 6 million players by then and the new MMO takes half the playerbase and gains the same amount back, that's still 3m in WoW + 6m in the new MMO for 9m total. I'm sure many of those 3m will keep active WoW subscriptions, so it's win-win for Blizzard.

This purely my opinion, but I think 5-6 years is about right.

WoW has 3-4 more expansions in it, if we go by 1.5 years for each, by the time WoW is done, the new one steps in.

Diablo III can have an expansion or two in that time.

Starcraft can have all 3 versions out, and maybe a couple of mini-expansions.

If you think about it, there's no way they can ship a new MMO in less than 5 years from right now. If they hold to their usual standards, just the story and lore that needs to be written alone is years of work and polish.

The real gamble here is, will MMOs still be as big as they are now? Or will some other form of game take over? Take a look at Guitar Hero, and Rock Band. A couple years ago, who knew they'd be as HUGE as they are? (And yes, a Rock Band MMO would be...awesome). They hit the jackpot with WOW, but there's no guarantee it will happen again.

Blizzard I'm sure are well aware of the issues, and that they alone are their only competition, and they have to be very careful of their strategy. They also will want to grow their subscriber base, not just move it around.

I was talking about this with a friend who has contacts in the gaming industry, and we both agree, in terms of job security, the best place to be working right now is Blizzard - if you're good, and on the right team, you can look at a decade of job security right now just finishing the existing games and their expansions, let alone new titles.

[Taliesin]

WoW has 3-4 more expansions in it, if we go by 1.5 years for each, by the time WoW is done, the new one steps in.

Just curious if there was information released that suggests that. Assuming you are talking about full releases and not just content updates.

By the original storyline they had set out for WoW (yes, this game has a pre-defined story with an "end"), they originally only slated up to level 90 in expansions, with the possibility of extending to level 100. That leaves us with really 1-2 full expansions before we hit the end of their set storyline. That's still 2-4 years worth of content left, by their information. That also supports the idea of a 5-6 year timeframe before we see their next MMO released.

Now, they could always decide to add additional storylines to WoW to reap the rewards of keeping that going, but I haven't seen anything else to suggest that they intend to do that or not yet. Additions after that may not be part of advancing the story any more, but exploring other aspects of the realm to delve further into history or origins of things, which seems possible given the playerbase's keen interest on exploring that type of stuff.

And, yeah, a Starcraft MMO has been all but ruled out by Blizz as a next possible game. Unless that's simply what they WANT us to think. Hmm...........

[kadaan]

[quote='Taliesin',index.php?page=Thread&postID=2003 39#post200339]Besides the fact that they are trying for a "next generation MMO" with "revolutionary" changes and [insert other hype buzzwords everyone else uses], and the statement that it will "not be based on any previously existing Blizzard universe", they really haven't said anything. Oh, and some of the WoW staff like game and content designers have been pulled full-time into this project now.
[/quote]I swore I read an interview where they said that "not based on an existing Blizzard universe" thing, but can't find the actual interview anywhere. Kotaku has a post from yesterday saying a blue post made early yesterday morning was the first time Blizzard has said it would be a new IP (article here: [url='http://kotaku.com/5252209/blizzards-next-online-game-is-completely-original']Blizzard's Next Online Game Is Completely Original[/url] .) Does anyone have a link to an earlier interview where they've said this?