MMOs For All Blizzard Franchises?

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 11 replies.

• My thoughts, exactly. If they made it Shadowrun-ish, with all those cool cybernetic enhancements, I'd pla : mystifier
• I wanted to see Starcraft in a Diablo-esque style of gameplay. :( : hatelull
• I hear rumors that this is already in the works : Senor PoopyPants
• toggle

  The only way I can picture it working is if it's like Planetside. That game was fun but I don't know why ... : pebui
  • toggle

    If they made a WoS I'd hope it wouldn't be fps at all but rather an mmo rts. For example you control a b... : Chod
    • Eesh. The only reason I'd want to play a Starcraft MMO is so I man some large piece of artillery against... : hatelull
    • that would be awsome. It would be pritty easy to setup an updated version of Starcraft, then make a reall... : lord_omega
• toggle

  More like, Universe of Starcraft, am i rite? : spl
  • Space of Starcraft! : edgewise
  • I vote Starcraft Galaxy. : FuryVII

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 27 replies.

• toggle

  Gah, I hope there's isn't a MMO Diablo. Keep it simple, intense and clicky, please. :( : walker270
  • toggle

    Yeah I'm equally worried. Diablo is an action RPG, not a persistant MMO. I can see it going the way of Gu... : arsonide
    • toggle

      Seeing is how 'Ghost' has pretty much been suspended indefinitely, this wouldn't surprise me. : kelzmelzer
      • I think the Ghost issue was more of the we didn't like what 3rd party devs and then our own were doing wi... : Chod
• toggle

  They are making StarCraft 2. Trust me. : gnoleb
  • toggle

    Nah all the rumors have been shot down, and hearing it directly from someone in the business pretty much ... : arsonide
    • Think about it from a business perspective though. Why wouldn't they continue with the starcraft franchis... : Anti_dentite
    • toggle

      Yeah, and the "experiment" sold more than all their other games. So I would call that a successful experi... : thechunder
      • toggle

        Just as silly as thinking they are. : arsonide
        • toggle

          Please tell us how : Anti_dentite
          • toggle

            Ok well, if you want to use profit as an example, here's how - Warcraft rocks Starcraft now in terms of p... : arsonide
            • toggle

              WarCraft only rocks StarCraft in terms of profit because WarCraft came with a monthly fee and is an MMO. ... : cam3lt0sis
              • Even if they did make a sequel I doubt it would play as good as the original, much like the next Diablo w... : arsonide
              • toggle

                basically what his post stated is that blizzard may never work on starcraft again, BUT it didn't say vive... : italiano3d
                • Yeah I can see Blizzard selling the rights to the sequel to someone else, similarly to how Vivendi got th... : arsonide
    • Unless your contact has ever worked for, or is currently working with Blizzard, then your friend is talki... : deathofrats
    • Go to Blizzard.com and look at the "games" tab on the upper left. Notice how it says "StarCraft Universe" : gnoleb
• I've been hoping for a next starcraft game (not a mmo) more than any other sequel from blizzard. I per... : te[R]ror
• hahahahahahahahahaha so dumb : jedi_27
• Haha. You think Blizzard would drop StarCraft? You've been misled. There's absolutely no way Blizzard ... : cam3lt0sis
• It's not dead as long as it's the national religion of Korea. : Dynotaku
• toggle

  He's in the business? So what? If he worked at Blizzard then I might believe something. But he'd have bro... : lord cecil
  • Of course it doesn't. : arsonide
• it really dosent suprise me. Blizzard dosent want too make a game unless its going too live up to expecta... : godm0de
• Not making SC2? I highly doubt the IP is dead to Blizzard. The game is old as hell and really should be s... : Morphius
• If Starcraft was an experiment, then why did they even make an expansion? I have to be honest, I would... : uh dead

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 5 replies.

• toggle

  can i get some of whatever you're smoking? : snackula
  • You say this as if my previous statement is unreasonable. : volitionism
  • what are YOU smoking? volitionism has a good point, how would a World of Diablo be any different? WoW alr... : downrightevil
• you jyust basically explained rpg game design since it was created. Really though the real difference is ... : italiano3d

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 5 replies.

• toggle

  ...only if it works, if it doesn't your out a much much larger investment and the field is getting tight ... : sinclair4217
  • toggle

    exactly, I don't think most people fathom the infrastructure that goes behind an MMO : sullisnack
    • I'm speaking purely from Blizzards standpoint and success. They have the formula down, of course anyone ... : grandmasterlee
  • the field was supposed to be shrinking before wow was created, and then wow came along and changed all pr... : italiano3d

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 3 replies.

• toggle

  isn't there a major turnover after every game? or has it just been after d2/wow? : ermac
  • yes but your major turnover is usually non essential talent. blizzard lost their core teams and leads. : italiano3d

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 2 replies.

• I'd buy that for a dollar. : volitionism

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 3 replies.

• I liked the idea of World of Vikings!!! : ShadowRam
• Rock and roll racing fuckin rules. : snot3353

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 8 replies.

• toggle

  So... that becomes just plain Diablo if you remove all that no? : mystifier
  • sounds good to me! : lapskaus
• toggle

  I would say something similar to Guild Wars : mallfouf
  • But we know what they mean when they say MMO, they mean monthly fee. : yourname00
• It will be an MMO in that you have to pay for it, not that it will play like it. Mark my word. : gnoleb
• Random loot, even the occasional uber loot from any standard mob is very possible in a MMO, AC1 (and AC2 ... : sinclair4217
• It was called Asheron's Call. Closest thing to a MMO diablo. It was you vs dozens of mobs at a time. I... : Wombat Woo

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 3 replies.

• toggle

  sadly as much as i love wow 1-59 this is so true. Tigole is evil. =( : italiano3d
  • I hate WoW overall, but I still play because playing 1-59 is pure bliss and better than 90% of all other ... : deathofrats

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 10 replies.

• toggle

  The data contradicts what you suggest, though. The market growth demonstrated by new MMOs almost always s... : GilesH
  • Oh, I'm not saying there's a limited market for MMOs in general, but rather that Blizzard, being the mass... : Vincent Grayson
• Exactly. Blizzard already has a crazy amount of people playing WoW. What's the point in trying to split... : walker270
• It would be cool if they set up a bundle payment where you pay Y amount instead X+X for each MMO you play... : pebui
• I'm sure as soon as WoW starts dying down, that's when they would announce another MMO. I'm sure we wont ... : happynoodle
• toggle

  i stopped playing wow a while ago, i would totally check out a starcraft mmo if it was out. : pzilla
  • toggle

    ^^ Exactly.. Bliazzard could get all the WoW Quiters to pay them again. : ShadowRam
    • toggle

      if anything, WoW made me realize how much MMOs are lacking from a gameplay perspective, until they fast-f... : yuried
      • WoW had that effect on me too. I think because it polished up everything that was in the MMO genre and it... : flooq

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 8 replies.

• Burning the late-night oil! : Orange Pylon
• toggle

  Chris Remo and Chuch Norris are the only people that do not need sleep. : nyranger66
  • toggle

    Whos Chuch? : Jaxle
    • think: senior spielbergo : deviantpaul
• hahah good question : jedi_27
• Sundays : silly
• He was bitten by a vampire, never has to sleep, and so Steve hired him as things like that really show on... : ihya

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 4 replies.

• toggle

  great financial idea : byorn
  • toggle

    Not really. They'd have to build a similar infastructure to WoW for each game while stealing a userbase ... : walker270
    • Not if they merged it all into the same game! World of Demonic Starviking Orcthorn Racing : arsonide

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 2 replies.

• this made LOL : vitek r

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 2 replies.

• yeah that would be awesome. Battletrax for the win! : belal

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 6 replies.

• Wish they would make an original game instead of pumping out sequel after sequel. : DarkWolf5
• toggle

  Ugh? If blizzard makes another game as fun as WoW is, I don't see how this could possibly be a bad thing... : uncle slappy
  • I just don't see blizzard being capable of doing it again really. Perhaps they are but the original team ... : italiano3d
  • picture people surrounded on three sides by computers playing three worlds of X simultaneously because th... : AbortedFetusChristi
• they need SOMETHING to wipe with! : Ziz

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 7 replies.

• Hmm several thousand posts to their forums probably adds a bit more credibility, but still ... : GilesH
• toggle

  They've had a couple true rumors in the past, if I recall. To be honest though, even after I got the res... : Chris Remo
  • Okay, cool. I can respect that since your fact checking has made the internets JournalisticQuality++, rat... : GilesH
  • toggle

    (That's why this was posted so late, I sat on the story until I just now noticed it pop up elsewhere.) : Chris Remo
    • toggle

      Good job sir... your professionalism is much appreciated! : MikkleThePickle
      • Here Here! : Smellsy

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 13 replies.

• That's pretty easy. Money. : PlanetPerfecto
• toggle

  In 1998, Cendant Soft sold its software division to Havas, which was bought up by Vivendi. : Ratsofatsorat
  • toggle

    Yeah, but how much money would it take to buy out blizzard, and if you had that much money, why the hell ... : skitzo
    • toggle

      Your second question does not compute : Chris Remo
      • toggle

        I'd imagine it would cost several million to obtain blizzard, If you had several million dollars, why are... : skitzo
        • i believe it was tens of millions of dollars. give me a second ill find out again : italiano3d
        • toggle

          Put down the crackpipe. : Ratsofatsorat
          • Too much? : skitzo
• Doesn't really make much of a difference. Money doesn't care who was around first. : Chris Remo
• You realize Vivendi is a huge media conglomerate, they aren't just games. : soggybagel
• toggle

  i searched and cannot find an exact figure sorry. They mainly just talk about the hava/cendant aquisition... : italiano3d
  • It's cool, sometimes economics just astounds me. : skitzo

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 2 replies.

• Then again, I suppose it depends on what you mean by MMO. A Starcraft RTS in a real-time world with battl... : Ratsofatsorat