World of Warcraft

World of STARCRAFT?...could it be?

Just wondering cause no one has been able to do a really good SCI-FI game yet. Could the announcement be about a STARCRAFT mmorpg?

What announcement?

Well I can name two really good sci-fi games.

Anarchy-Online and EVE-Online

The announcement that blizzard made was about Diablo III though.

I think I read somewhere that it would be a new IP. No genre details as yet.

I see little sense in announcing a new MMO right before releasing an expansion for your current one so don't count on that happening just yet :)

Starcraft would make an interesting MMO. I would love an MMO that allowed me to be an alien, preferably a non humaniod alien.

What? No it was Diablo III. They have one more shoe to drop but it will probably be after Starcraft II is released.

Well its no secret that they are developing a new MMO by the job openings listed on their sight, its not what the announcement was. The announcement was Diablo 3. 

Too bad, while I love the Diablo series, I just hope I'm not disappointed by this. They need to do away with the hackers, and bring some new mechanics to the game. Having better graphics and a new story isn't enough for me to be happy.

www.gamingsteve.com/archives/2007/12/blizzard-confirms-new-mmorpg-and-i-have-details.php

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December 12, 2007

Blizzard Confirms New MMORPG -- And I Have Details

Earlier today GameSpot reported that Blizzard has indeed confirmed that they are working on a new MMORPG that is NOT related in any way to World of Warcraft. I've been meaning to write about this for some time now but never really had the chance but now that the "cat is out of the bag" I thought now was as good of time as any to tell you what I know about Blizzard's new MMORPG.

For those who are regular readers to the site you'll know that my track record is pretty darn good when it comes to spilling secrets in the world of gaming. From confirming that Command & Conquer 3 was to be released on the Xbox 360, to breaking the news on the Zune release date, to detailed information on WoW Battleground enhancements I only release information that I am sure is correct. And the following info I am 100% sure is correct.

With that in mind here is what I know about Blizzard's new MMORPG. First is that it has only been under development for a very short period of time. Blizzard held their first internal meeting to discuss this new MMORPG they were going to develop with a small group of core developers during the last week of March 2007. Only the top developers from the WoW team were invited to this meeting and it was extremely small ... and top secret (of course). Even Blizzard at that time didn't know what type of MMORPG they were going to develop. This meeting was to act as an initial brainstorming meeting where this core group could throw around ideas and see what they would want to develop as a next game. Each member of the team was asked to present their ideas for what sort of new MMORPG they would like to develop that was specifically NOT WoW related.

From that meeting in March they began to start the initial development of this new MMORPG, and have begun work on it since April 2007. Right now they are only in the initial stages of development and are only working with a small group. But from what I know the general concept, genre, and intellectual property have been determined. Now all that needs to be done is to make the game!

And with Blizzard's track record expect to see something sometime in around 2014, and expect it to change multiple times during development. Remember that Blizzard spent seven years developing WoW from start to finish and just the "Friends and Family" Alpha Test for WoW lasted over a year. This game will go through the same spit and polish that WoW had to go through, although they do have considerably more experience this time around and are using the core WoW team to build the game architecture.

Unfortunately even I do not know what game genre they are developing or if it using an existing IP or a new one. That is one secret that nobody outside a very small handful of people know about. But I do know that they are going to be trying something different from WoW and it have a completely new gameplay experience than WoW. I wish I had more to tell you other than this, but as I start to hear more I will let you know. Stay tuned..."

I don't see how a Starcraft MMOG would work.

In an MMORPG you play a single characetr, and when looking at the three factions the individuals are not even close to "balanced". Put up a protoss against a terran and you'd have to put the terran in a war machine to stand a chance. And the zerg players - from zerglings to overlords - would never be in balance with either protoss or terran.

MMORTS could be an option, but I think we have yet to see one that does moderately well. It'd be too risky to put a lot of development into such a genre at this time.

My best bet for a Starcraft game going away from conventional RTS would be something in the direction of World in Conflict.