Blizz's next mmo

[eso]

on the topic, everyone signed up for the hello kitty mmo closed beta right? Sanriotown.com, got my @hellokitty.com email and a beta account. woot!

[junx]

I have been saying for a while, and hoping even longer, that their next MMO will be based on the canned Starcraft: Ghost. Something like Planetside(never played but aware of it) or one of the other FPS-MMORPGs that failed to deliver. There's a huge player base of "twitch-gamers" gamers out there playing FPS games for free, and it is something they could bring to consoles to capitalize on the Halo crowd if the controls are simple enough.

[Zanjii]

I have been saying for a while, and hoping even longer, that their next MMO will be based on the canned Starcraft: Ghost. Something like Planetside(never played but aware of it) or one of the other FPS-MMORPGs that failed to deliver. There's a huge player base of "twitch-gamers" gamers out there playing FPS games for free, and it is something they could bring to consoles to capitalize on the Halo crowd if the controls are simple enough.

While I am a huge fan of the idea, I'll bet you three internets that game isn't going to come from Blizzard. I hated what SOE ended up doing to Planetside, that game looked like exactly what I had been hoping until it turned out it wasn't, and I'd really want a quality replacement some time soon. That said, and has been noted quite a few times here, Blizzard isn't in the "breaking new ground" business. They come in after the early settlers, take a look around and combines everything done up until now in the right way, and spicy it up with quality control and does it properly.

My money is on Starcraft as well, although I'd call it VERY optimistic to think it'll hit anything but early beta by 2010.

[Hotnutz]

I miss my hammerdin. And in memory of him I give u this cool video :P

[flyingman]

Its Blizz Activision now so you can look just past Bliz. I dont see Starcraft MMO until they milk Starcraft 2. Maybe a FPS MMO because of Call of Duty or Quake or Super Hero's that fall around Spider man/Xman.

But if I had put my money somewhere I go for Diablo and I think it would be great game to do but would love to see cool MMO FPS

[Yanamana]

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).

Ziran

www.anarchyonline.com

Its old now, but when it came out it had almost as large a population base as everquest.

[Gurblash]

Played AO for 3 years. Have a 220 MA, 220 Doc and a 220 Fixer. Game is now free up till lvl 200 but you are restricted to 'Vanilla AO' gear and zones. No access to expansion zones/gear. And its very easy to multibox on.

Really enjoyed the game. Only problem is the gfx are getting dated and the bugs and rubberbanding was still rampant when I quit playing last year. Plus the content was meh

[Gallo]

My first MMO was Star Wars Galaxies right out of college. I played for about 9 months and quit right before the whole Jedi thing wrecked the game. I thought it was pretty fun for my first MMO. Looking back, I know that there were a lot of flaws. Also, MAN were there a lot of whiners on their forums. It was funnier to watch than WoW General.

[Atorifan]

This is my first MMO, and I played a little of WC2 and 3 (which I hated). Where is the room for WoW2? I'm not lore oriented at all, it's just a vehicle for entertainment. Call the mob a purgoop and it plans on turning the world into cottage cheese, I'll still kill it if it's fun. But how much room is there in the WCverse to make a WoW2, elder gods being the main focus? Or will it just be WoW with shiny new mobs and new jacked in 'lore' for profit?