Blizz's next mmo

[eso]

I noticed on the blizzard employment page there popped up last week a bunch of "top secret" next gen mmo job openings, let the speculation begin!

[Hotnutz]

Diablo Online......

Starcraft...... Hmmm

Sounds interesting.

[Gallo]

World of Warcraft 2. I would think that they would want to improve upon an existing success, much like Everquest did. But, who knows?

[Wilbur]

It won't be World of Warcraft 2.

Starcraft 2 is where the smart money is.

[Ziran]

The problem is that blizzard is really NOT an innovate type of company. Nobody else really figured out how to do a sci-fi MMO succesfully yet (and please DO NOT say Star Wars Galaxies) and hence there really is nobody out there to copy with greater attention to detail (ala WoW).

World of diablo would be a much more straightforward proposition and a guaranteed success, but it would compete significantly with WoW.

SCMMO is a much riskier proposition but would open a completely new market with huge upside potential.

Time will tell. I personally hope it is the SCMMO as we really need a big succesfull MMO that is something other then fantasy hack and slash.

Ziran

[Gallo]

Diablo is so much like Warcraft in terms of spells/creatures/etc. I would love to see it, but it seems to me that it would be hardly any different than a WoW2 other than by name.

It would be nice to finally see some Pally DPS though. LOL!

[Knytestorme]

While it coule be WoW2 (given any jobs offered now woudl be for shipping product no earlier than 2010 even if a framework has been coded already) I'd say those positions will be for Universe of Starcraft to be releaeed about 12 months after SC2.

I would contend that we'll never see a Diablo MMO since it already effectively is, and the culture of free battle.net service is so ingrained in diablo players that any attempt to charge would be met with utmost resistance...having said that though, a Diablo MMO along the lines of GW could be possible, but again I'd say that's how Diablo MP already is.

[Diamndzngunz]

I want Diablo. I miss diablo.

[Cripes]

World of Vikings (rofl, whatever that viking game is they made)
Diablo was more addicting than Diablo 2 to me. Ahh well, their games are of a high quality.. so anything is great

[Bigfish]

I would put money on the fact that, at this point, they are just developing and getting a team trained and set up to develop whatever MMO they decide to run with next. Starcraft wouldn't surprise me. Didn't they announce WoW before WC3 was released? Diablo could also be in the works. Chances are though, they don't know themselves what they are going to announce next until they get something working to the point they can say "ok, lets do a tech demo and finalize that THIS is going to be the next release."