General Discussion

Obviously I don't care about what one chinese company is or is not doing.

The great news is that this semi-confirm that Blizzard is doing a World of Starcraft game. I have been waiting for a casual friendly, well-polished, sci-fi based MMORPG for a long time. Blizzard is obviously one of the best, if the best, company to do it.

It doesn't come as a big surprise though. Even without this semi-confirmation, the chance that Blizzard is working on a starcraft MMO is very high since a) they are confirmed to be working on another MMO, and b) it would be foolish to make another WOW style fantasy based one. Diablo is a possibility but that is still too close to WOW. Starcraft makes a lot more sense.

Come on, not World of Starcraft.  That would be too lame.  I mean Blizzard could do ANYTHING.  They want a Star Wars license?  They get a Star Wars license.  They want to make the best Cyberpunk MMO ever?  They make the best Cyberpunk MMO Ever.

In any case, Blizzard would never be sloppy enough to release the info this way.

Lets face it, the Chinese company is just using this to drum up interest in its stock.  It knows that the Asian markets will react strongly to the word 'Starcraft,' and given how mysterious Blizzard is being, they're not going to get any contradictory information for a bit. 

This has about as much truth behind it as that company in India buying Sony Online Entertainment did.

Well they released warcraft3 and warcraft tft, and then wow, so why not making starcraft 2 and then world of starcraft!

Btw Its is true, blizzard really working on new mmo, so best guess is starcraft, couze d2 would be too close to wow.

Or blizzard can slap us with big fish in to our faces, and make some new name? 

They arent going to be making another MMO in either the Diablo or Starcraft universe anytime in the near future, its already been told at Blizzcon. Sure i agree it would be pretty awsome, but not possible at the moment. Their main focus is on WoW and getting Starcraft 2 finished and in stores. In case anyone forgot they did a merge with Activision while back. The MMO they are most likely doing is something of Activision's creation, and they are mainly going to help in the development of it as best they can despite being so busy with all the manpower on the 2 games i mentioned above.

rofl is this guy serious?

Blizzard probably has the people already to make 2 games, and with their money bags and big name they could hire people and set up 10 more projects if they felt like it.

Originally posted by gamerman98

They arent going to be making another MMO in either the Diablo or Starcraft universe anytime in the near future, its already been told at Blizzcon. Sure i agree it would be pretty awsome, but not possible at the moment. Their main focus is on WoW and getting Starcraft 2 finished and in stores. In case anyone forgot they did a merge with Activision while back. The MMO they are most likely doing is something of Activision's creation, and they are mainly going to help in the development of it as best they can despite being so busy with all the manpower on the 2 games i mentioned above.

1 - At BlizzCon 07 Blizzard said that they were not working on a Starcraft MMO, they said nothing about Diablo.

2 - The "next gen" MMO began development a long time before the Activision merger.

3 - Blizzard currently has 2 confirmed games in development: Starcraft 2 and Project Hydra. It is unclear if Project Hydra and the "next gen" MMO are the same game.

There is NO Starcraft MMO in the works.