Confirmed: Blizzard to announce new game at WWI

Fenixhart — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:03:45 GMT

Whatever it is, I hope they do better with it than what they've done with WoW. Tom Chilton is taking that game to Hell in a Hand basket right now.

Confirmed: Blizzard to announce new game at WWI

antixpaul — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:03:44 GMT

I still think the splash screens on worldofwarcraft.com and blizzard.com are unrelated

that *** looks icy no?

edit:

If you look at what the lich king is standing on on http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/ it looks exactly the same as the splash screen, even has runes in the ice etc.

And of course death knights use runes to cast spells and blizzard are notorious for reusing images/icons.

But having said that why would they go to the effort of hiding snippits of info in the page if we weren't supposed to be trying to figure something out. Time will tell unfortunately.

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Morachnus — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:03:43 GMT

World of Starcraft? lol

Confirmed: Blizzard to announce new game at WWI

RenokK — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:03:42 GMT

not wotlk not sc2 what thenn....maybe something i waitet a long time for? Diablo3?

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SpiritJoint — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:03:41 GMT

they might go into console games because of the merger with activision

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GTValidus — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:03:40 GMT

If this IS in fact a Diablo MMO, I will be dropping EVERY MMO I'm currently subscribed with to play this. No matter what.

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skitz1466 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:03:39 GMT

Pssst... make a call to Hasbro, Transformers should be the next big MMO... /coff

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aerimus — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:03:38 GMT

hmm, 10 million subscribers say otherwise

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lvlaximus — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:03:37 GMT

I am no guru nor do i pretend to keep up as well as others but, i have heard many rumors, as im sure everyone has. The biggest one that seems to be on the market atm is Diablo mmo, which would pit demons vs angels, and the righteous similar to horde and alliance.

I have also heard rumor of a Starcraft MMO which imo would be a fantastic addition to the mmo market given that good sci-fi mmo's are so very hard to come by and Blizzard has the technology the money and the man power to dump into something truly amazing given the success of World of Warcraft.

Although very unlikely i have also heard of a possible World of Warcraft II. This would be a bad business decision, imo, by Blizzard because you would not necessarily be generating a new fan base but rather continuing to capture one that already exists in the original World of Warcraft.... which still has many years before it has run its course at which point they could potentially introduce a new W.o.W. or move on to other stories.

Another thing that nearly guarantees success is Blizzards astounding track record. Every or nearly every game they have put onto shelves has done well to my recollection i have not seen or heard of a flop though i do not have the research to back that up.

In any and all cases unless the mighty shall fall, the new mmo will more than likely blow the gaming scene away and dominate a little of the same and perhaps other genres of the gaming market.

~Grumesch
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jasdub — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:03:36 GMT

was never too big on Diablo. Didn't like the whole demon theme and being stuck in a depressing hell 24/7. A starcraft mmo, however, sounds extremely interesting. Either way, our votes won't matter now since they've probably developed a good portion of this new game already.

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Alucardracula — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:03:35 GMT

I still think there is going to be alot of WotLK stuff announced there, but I don't think the new game announcement comes as a big shock to many people. I'll put my bet on either D3 or a new franchise all together.

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Gazrella — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:03:34 GMT

LOL I agree with Alu it would be another warcraft game to expand the lore or it could be both a new game and Lich King.

I have not wavered my hope lol

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RenokK — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:03:33 GMT

I also think its something with wotlk there but if you think about how much people still play diablo2! and still today people are buying it and start to play it. then all domains like www.diablo3.com where domains you can buy if you go now on these pages thay cant be found or redirect you to a blizzard hp.
So i think and also hope thay continue the diablo story with diablo3

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antixpaul — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:03:32 GMT

have you not talked to any of the 10 million subscribers?

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MurkinWaters — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:03:31 GMT

I think it is a sure bet to be Diablo 3. They have always said that they have not forgotten any of their franchises. And they have been hiring for this secret game project for awhile. One of the ads even said "Experience with diablo and its art was a plus." I forget what type of job it was....possibly graphics?

In any event, they know that with the success of the previous two, they could probably let it out at any time and people would jump for it.

I could Also easily see the potential for MMO there. Create a hero, choose a side (Heaven or Hell) and go to train, level up, and fight. Each side would have their own versions of equipment, of course.

:) :) :)