StarCraft MMO Announcing Soon?

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  I guarantee they're doing non-MMO stuff. They've got enough staff, and bought Swingin' Ape too, that they... : node
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    It's not about being a hater, it's more about being a realist, I guess. Financially, they'd probably be ... : wytefang
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      please don't use the word realist, it make you look like an ass. : knightblade87
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        It's not so much that it makes him look like an ass. It's just that it clearly highlights the fact that h... : gndagger
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          Ah nothing like being harrassed by ShackTrolls. Your words hurt me so deeply. : wytefang
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            No, you're just being wrong. There's more potential profit for Blizzard in one-time single player stuff a... : Vincent Grayson
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              I don't think it would necessarily be a bad business move for them to do a Starcraft MMO. Yeah, it would... : Krypt_
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                They're still building the team though. The job listing(s) that sparked this whole rumor were extremely r... : gndagger
                • Quick clarification. I don't think it would be a bad move for them to make a single-player project. I'd... : wytefang
• I'd try a new one out, but I'm not even that interested in WOW anymore. LOTRO is where it is. Now that's ... : .dotpredator
• Ya, and we all know how in danger Blizzard is of having problems keeping customers. : spl
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  the majority seem to like MMO's though.... : grandmasterlee
  • And we all know how discerning the 'majority' is...right? ;) : wytefang
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    well the majority of MMO players like hopping between MMOs as well : xpaladin
    • Fair enough. This is true. : wytefang

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  A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A : Dynotaku
  • ^^^^^^ win : dewdman
  • [lol] : Daggoth
  • Well done... : Edges
• how would you gank loot that falls fast enough? : grandmasterlee
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  This is what Im hoping for. : Tommy Toolbag
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    you never played the playstation port of diablo did you? : happynoodle
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      Good Lord that was terrible. I remember playing it at a friend's because he wasn't a PC gamer but knew a... : David Craddock
      • Haha the worst part about it was that for some reason they didn't remove friendly fire. So if you were a ... : datoo
• diablo on consoles = fuck no : the rizzo
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  this would be the worst idea ever : sexninja!!!!
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    or the best idea ever. : Tommy Toolbag
    • Definitely a bad idea. Diablo is a point and click game, I don't care what people think. : Sgt_Boomstick
• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=14350442 : aeg1x

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• hahaha...that's fuckin awesome! : Don Vito Corleone
• Lmao, perfect :D : niceguynick
• haha nice. : _hiob_

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• they don't talk about that anymore : Nation
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  It was canned. : ihya
  • It didn't look very interesting gameplay wise, a stealth-game set in the Starcraft universe. :shrugs: I ... : _hiob_
• Warcraft Adventures'd :( I really, really wanted to play Warcraft Adventures back then too : Frozen Pixel

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• No, you're definitely not. I'm with you. : David Craddock
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  It comes out to about 50¢ a day, that's pretty cheap entertainment : strider_
  • That's the same logic I've used to convince people to play WoW. : ripper9
• I have never paid a monthly fee for a game. I might if a group of my friends start, but most of them are ... : Nation
• You're not in the minority at all imho. There are games like the Guildwars series that cater to people li... : Wierdo-X
• No Im with you......again. I did the WoW thing and never liked paying the monthly fee. I always felt I... : samduhman
• I would pay a monthly fee for Diablo 3 on clean, stable servers. : sleepytea

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  GAH 2012... man this forum UI sucks with no ability to edit and when you hit TAB after the password field... : Angrakhan
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    you've been registered since 2001, and you are just now finding this out? : deathofrats
    • HA! No, I'm just now bitching about it.... I have a long fuse it seems. : Angrakhan

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• Also bravo Steve on skillful use of anime smileys. : rudds
• My friend at Blizz, sent me a ;) over MSN. He's a bastard. : Derringer
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  My friend at Blizz said, "fuck you, cock sucker. Im gonna fuck your mother and eat your soul...faggot" ... : burning eye
  • The balance has been restored : IrN00btastic
  • tears of laughter at the sheer and utter blasphemy in that last post. I love it, something about sheer as... : AroundTheFur1380
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  I asked my friend at Blizz about this, and after some careful considered thought, he said "Dude, I'm tota... : thaperfectdrug
  • ^Truth! : xpogox
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    Why is it hard to believe that some people know people who work at Blizzard? I know people all over the ... : Derringer
    • Yeah, and given where he works rudds is hardly unlikely to know somebody at Blizzard. Blizzard is a pret... : Chris Remo
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      I wasn't doubting the validity of the other posters, occasionally I enjoy the silly. : thaperfectdrug
      • I am Mel Gibson : echronorian
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        I guess I fail at reading into the joke :P : Derringer
        • You failed because it wasn't funny ! : thaperfectdrug
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      Yeah, who would lie on the internet? : tree8
      • lol silly nobody lies on the interweb : cam3lt0sis
• I honestly hope it's not a MMO. : te[R]ror
• Yeah I asked my friend at Blizz and he said you're full of shit lolol : cam3lt0sis
• I asked my friend at Blizz and he said "Dude, how would I know? I work at Domino's! That's $11.99." : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  God I hope it's just rumours. I just don't play mmo's so I'm gunning for ANYTHING but an mmo : moneyshot
  • I loved WoW at first, but it got boring very quickly. Here's hoping it's an RTS and not an MMO. I hate ... : valael
• My friend keeps telling me "DoOD I don't work AT BLIZZARD! SHUT UP!" : Sixcos
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  I bought a Blizzard from DQ once. : thaperfectdrug
  • Zing! : bakanoodle

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• Starcraft ala the Diablo2 gameplay. : hatelull
• WoW with different models and environments? : jigstah

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• yeah i can't get into rts's either. just not my thing. i played WoW and enjoyed it, but i really prefer... : snackula

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• million player zergling rush would probably be more effective than the initial 200 unit limit/400 zerglin... : Skyburst101

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• That quote is pretty old, from sometime last year. I can't find the original source, but just from the pa... : Caledfwlch

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• This is South Korea! : Fail_Safe

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  Why does everyone say this? Isnt this like Valve releasing another FPS(ep2/portal/TF2) game to a market t... : Unleashed
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    Not really because typically people play one MMO exclusively. An FPS doesn't require the same level of co... : downrightevil
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      Ok, so people leave WoW and go to Starcraft. Either way you are still paying Blizzard. And then there ... : Tommy Toolbag
      • That last option seems the best way to break the one-MMO commitment. I'd buy the shit out of that if they... : kungfusquirrel
      • This also solves the problem of getting "burned out" on one, as you can switch between the two. This mak... : devi| dog
    • but that's assuming all MMO players play WoW : RikiTiki2
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    That makes no sense. MMO's require a monthly fee to play- hence if a user stops playing MMO#1 and switch... : YamatoTwinkie
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      What you're not seeing here is this... Sure, if you have brand new mmo 2 from company A, their mmo 1 s... : Gandaman
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        You guys are freaking me out. Are there really that many people who are so addicted that they keep playin... : Geoffrois
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          People still play Everquest. : Delithio
          • I know Meridian 59 is still alive, sort of, and I bet some people still play Ultima Online as well. : SilverSnake
  • Because they are very stupid? : et72
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  What if the two MMOs were completely different? WoW being the EverQuest-styled loot grind and World of St... : insta
  • If its a perfected Planetside, I will give it a shot. If its another lootfest, I wont bother. : Tommy Toolbag
• no, it wont be out for years and years : sexninja!!!!
• Do you realize how many koreans would drop whatever crappy korean MMO they're playing to play a Starcraft... : cycopl

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• At the end of LoD they seemed to hit at the next game being an MMO, or at least they left it open for one... : Anti_dentite

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  rock and roll racing 2, actually. : crummynz
  • Actually it's the Lost Vikings MMO. : AgentPothead
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    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rock-N-Roll-Racing-Asphalt/dp/B00004UBYW : xpogox
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      Wow... well what do you know. : crummynz
      • Oh it's a bomb...haha hopefully the put a real R&R Racing 2 out. : xpogox

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• at present : aeg1x
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  ... but we will in a few weeks...? It just doesn't make sense to say it that way. : dante2010
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    they said that on the 27th (or maybe earlier, the shack article about it is on the 27th) so its almost a ... : sexninja!!!!
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      I don't know man. So when they then said "revisit that universe at some point in the future" they meant i... : headbone
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        Don't forget that just because it's announced, doesn't mean it's going to be out in a month after. Like ... : Derringer
        • Yeah that is quite usually with games these days, I don't like the trend. I wish developers would announc... : Kristian Joensen
      • It is called disinformation, Joe Siegler does that often on the 3DR forum, he particulary used to do stuf... : Kristian Joensen
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  at present = today. they're playing with literature here. : reverend~heresy
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    I dunno, i kinda read that quote as: "Yeah, we know, you guys want another Starcraft. We *are* working o... : YamatoTwinkie
    • I dunno, that's pretty standard bullshitting. They'll do just about anything they can to avoid actually a... : Vincent Grayson
    • soon and replace with "today" or "this moment" : Nation
• Dude, think of the location of the announcement... It's obviously Starcraft related. : FushigiDenki

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• Second'd! : ifallible
• third'd! : downrightevil
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  I'd put money down on the fact that this new game will have nothing innovative other than another crack t... : tyrelhill
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    Then you don't know Blizzard very well I think. : downrightevil
    • Indeed, In fact one of their guys clearly said that if they do another MMO it wouldn't beWoW in space or ... : node
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      I've never looked at Blizzard as a very innovative company. They just do the same thing everyone else do... : valael
      • Extreme polish in itself is pretty innovative in the PC games industry. : Krypt_
• This would be hot. : Jiven
• Starcraft A'la Shattered Galaxy. Sexy imo! : felizk
• yes yes yes yes yes yes yes : metralgia

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  Maybe they're announcing that they've been working on it for 4years. : Sixcos
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    highly unlikely, they've been pumping out WOW content : zagzig32
    • Dude, Blizzard has more employees than there are people working on new WoW content. I'm pretty sure they ... : bigimp
• So at what point does my generation have to stop playing games? : Sapiens

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• Reply to 129, I certainly fail now. : Derringer

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• This would be the fucking menace. : netshade
• Jesus Christ you are tugging at my heartstrings. : pwnage1232
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  Blizzard has never created a FPS. I wouldn't get too excited about it if it was. : Pettytheft
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    They had also never made an MMO. : Nullzero
    • That seemed to work out 'ok' for them I think. : Scotty22
• Blizzard can set the standard anyway they go. : podung
• My testicles are tingling. God Planetside could have been so much better : node
• That would be so uttely awesome! =D : cosmicc
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  It will be! for consoles! : silentzero
  • They would not announce a console game in Korea. : aeg1x
• I'd actually love that.. haha. I don't know if Blizz would be the correct team for the job, but I loved B... : .dotpredator
• that would be awesome. : metralgia

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  Unlike other companies, Blizzard has more than one franchise to get milk from. Why create something new ... : doomed
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    hehe true, i'm just saying that blizzard should be in the position to risk another genuine new franchise ... : Hoax
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      not really to say, the demand for a sci fi base MMO is very high. If world of starcraft was released back... : knightblade87
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        of corse a starcraft MMO will be more welcomes if starcraft 2 is released first. : knightblade87
        • I think you have hit it right on the head with this statement in reguards to the older hardcore gamers. B... : godm0de
  • Yeah! They could make a WorldWarTwoCraft!!!!! : GreatGooglyMoogly

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• He said and linked a year old article... Sigh, i should really read such things and not just believe it. ... : felizk

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• They used to do it a lot at ECTS actually. I was at the WC3 announcement there and they did WoW at ECTS t... : node

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• Seriously, and the article is also missing a "keke"! <(o_O)> : code-e255

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• With the capital that Blizzard has, I honestly wish they would make a game like Warcraft Adventures. I me... : speon

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• remember if they disagree with your option they are gay or nazis : knightblade87

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  or they at least end it with a question mark :P : ermac
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    ok i think i got that part fixed! : Steve Gibson
    • ahahahahah : pwnage1232
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      lol, much better : Frozen Pixel
      • I think it should be ^_^;; : Frozen Pixel
    • ^____^ : ermac
    • rofltastic : Downforce
    • kekekekekeke! : Matt Burris
    • Throw a dancing ascii kirby in too, what the hell. : thaperfectdrug
    • Use "XD" instead of ":)" :-P : High-g
• Which should give you pause to discount it really. : Visceral Monkey
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  But it is the sort of stuff that reels in traffic. I don't have a problem with rumour and speculation as ... : aeg1x
  • yeah generally when we post stuff like this we\'ve heard something ourselves. i\'d say as long as we feel... : Steve Gibson
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  For the record I personally don't think it's as cut-and-dried as Steve does. CVG isn't a be-all end-all ... : Chris Remo
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    Personally, I'm betting it's a hybrid of MMO dynamics mixed with the expected RTS dynamics. Definitely wo... : Chris Faylor
    • As awesome as that would be, Blizzard isn't generally one to blaze trails like that. That company tends... : Chris Remo

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• I think Blizz will just stick to what they do best and make a guaranteed triple A title in the likes of d... : mnok