Blizzard Confirms 'Unannounced MMO' in Works

Hasn't there always been a rumour from a disgrunted ex-Blizzard...From numerous sites including this:

http://www.gamingsteve.com/archives/2006/02/rumor_diablo_ii.php

"Diablo 3 takes place in heaven. Hell is trying to take it over and it is AWESOME looking … Imagine the brightness of heaven being taken over by the darkness of hell … Imagine WoW but in a Diablo world in amount of size and playability … Also, guild housing is available in this game for those of you who know about it."

Oh god, please no more MMORPGs.

And if you absolutely have to make one, pickup the GW model instead of monthly subscriptions.

It's not like maintaining game servers and hardware is expensive nowadays.

In my mind Blizzard likely has MANY games they working on that have not been announced.

I love their work, but hearing an announcement from them fills me with indifference since it will likely be many MANY years until it ever comes out.

Even when they start showing screenshots, the game is at least a year away.

I am going to say that I think its probably WoW2.

Lost Vikings Online

World of Hellgate

WORLD OF STARCRAFT PLS!!

also: damn carlos! I posted this like 2 days ago! get on the ball buddy!!

Given the release of Warcraft III a year+ prior to the release of WoW and its success in introducing the new Warcraft mythology used in WoW, I believe the impending release of Starcraft II and the fact that we are only now hearing "official" confirmation of another Blizzard MMO that is at least a year+ away bodes well that this is in fact a World of Starcraft MMO we are talking about.

Last week called, they want their news back.

World of Diablo...craft.

Starcraft-side. 3 empires, a handful of planets, constant warfare, levels = more skills to do stuff rather than be more powerful.

Terrans are easy - skill points get you the ability to drive vehicles, transport people, sabotage and control facilities, set up temporary facilities, give others around you more survivability (command aura stuff).

Zerg would be tougher, but could be handled a bit like Savage did it. You spawn as a grunt zergling, but the more you play and the more kills / captures you rack up, the more access you get to more powerful units (up to a maximum of X spawns, say). When you get killed enough times in the more powerful form you have to earn more spawn points as a zergling. Some peripheral skills could be thrown in there, but most should be reserved for the non-basic forms.

Protoss, hmm, I guess vaguely similar to Humans. I haven't played SC in ages.

Anyway, make this, give it the Blizz coat of polish, the sky's the limit :D

So Blizzard ain't dumb. We know it's going to be a "World of" something game to cash in on 9.6 million subscribers recognizing that name. But World of what. Starcraft would be interesting. Release Starcraft 2 to stoke the flames (don't change it much so it's not as huge of an undertaking - don't fix what wasn't broken to begin with) then after a year or so release World of Starcraft. You get all the WoW players plus all the Starcraft junkies. World of Diablo could be interesting but it'd be hard to distinguish itself from WoW and that could potentially hurt both games.

Or does Blizzard take everything they've learned and create a new IP and use it to breathe life into a brand new MMO. I love wondering about this stuff. Does it come from one higher up at Blizzard saying " we are going to make this game" or is it a collaborative process where all of Blizzard kind of says "we want to make this game" and then they make it.

Rock 'n' Roll Racing Online!

I'm hoping it's Diablo 3, but no monthly fee required, a Guild Wars-esque set up. I wouldn't even mind something like Hellgate where you can pay for certain things if you want to, but I don't want to HAVE TO pay.

World of Moneyhats!

You just run around the world looking for mats to craft hats with, then you mail them to Blizzard through the in-game postal system. The Top 10 Moneyhat makers each week get an epic!

World of Stwarblocraft.... that ONE game that binds them all!!!@!@!@