Blizzard's New Top Secret MMO

Quezacolt — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:26:36 GMT

*drool slowly spills out of mouth*

Hope it's a Starcraft MMO. Might get interesting. Heck, all of these are interesting. XD

Blizzard's New Top Secret MMO

firetwuck — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:26:35 GMT

yep, SC MMO would be great. Ghost would be great on any of the new gaming consoles too.

Blizzard's New Top Secret MMO

magicdiablo — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:26:34 GMT

I could def see a diablo MMO, if that is true It would be bad-ass. I would be first in line to grab that one. Considering that they are making Starcraft 2 why not go with the other big seller.

Blizzard's New Top Secret MMO

raamoz — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:26:33 GMT

if they are going to make another MMO i hope it won't be related to starcraft or diablo. i want something new. even though i'm not sure if i would even consider buying it. since there are already a lot of MMO's coming out in the upcoming new years. ill wait and see

Blizzard's New Top Secret MMO

Sicka — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:26:32 GMT

it better be a diablo mmo ffs

Blizzard's New Top Secret MMO

Indelible — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:26:31 GMT

The MMO genre is going to be interesting. It's still young but I suspect we may see the same sort of delivery as with consoles, for example. X amount of companies create X amount of MMOS for release in a single year; One MMO prevails and draws in the most players and that MMO goes on to live a long and healthy life whilst the other MMOs fail and turn out like Star Wars Galaxies. % yearsof complete silence from the major developers and then suddenly, the whole process repeats and I think that is what we are seeing atm.

There are pospects of a new Star Wars MMO (BioWare and Lucas Arts), Star Trek MMO (Perpetual), Top Secret MMO (Blizzard), Unnamed MMO (Bethesda)... the list of major developers planning MMOs for release in the next 2-3 years is endless.

Blizzard's New Top Secret MMO

asp — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:26:30 GMT

I would definitely play a Diablo MMO. Used to play Diablo way too much to not at least try it. Not too fond of futuristic MMO's so a Starcraft based one I might skip. I think it'll be hard to Blizzard to look at the current market which is like 90%+ fantasy based and make a futuristic MMO.

A brand new franchise would be very interesting, I'm sure they're in such a strong position that they could probably create yet another great piece of IP. I would probably be more inclined to play one based on some new fantasy lore than a Starcraft one.

Blizzard's New Top Secret MMO

Indelible — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:26:28 GMT

I feel that the MMO genre is far to saturated to consider handle fantasy title, at least in the next 2-3 years. Blizzard especially would suffer from a problem that would be generic to every fantasy title; they themselves already having an existing and very successful fantasy MMO out. Unless this new title is planned to succeed WoW then I don't think it would be in their best interests to consider a fantasy MMO to run along side Warcraft. In order to maximise profit, they need to touch on a genre that isn't saturated and Science Fiction would seem like the logical step to take.

Personally, I don't think the Hallowe'en announcement (-ish) is a mistake. I think it IS a Diablo MMo they are working on and I think it will be released (possibly) a year after the expansion that takes the World of Warcraft level cap to 100. The lore in Warcraft needs replenishing and with talk of Warcraft 4 already being spouted It looks like Diablo could be on the way... of course, this is all based on my own personal desires :-P

Blizzard's New Top Secret MMO

Kody — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:26:27 GMT

There's also World of Darkness from CCP Whitewolf, The Secret World from Funcom, The Agency from SoE, the Marvel Comics MMO from Cryptic, Guild Wars 2 from ArenaNet, etc. All of those will be either late 2008 or some time in 2009 at the earliest, so the next few years are going to have some huge new games coming out.

Oh Stargate Worlds as well, that will be in the later half of 2008.

Blizzard's New Top Secret MMO

Kody — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:26:26 GMT

You should buy Hellgate: London. >:)

Blizzard's New Top Secret MMO

Ulkterna — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:26:25 GMT

Not to strike out on the misspelling in This section but

Whatever it is, we should know by now that they are very careful with they way they handle publicity so the fact that these hints occured on Hallowe'en may be full of purpose. After all, some of us have suspected that they have been working on a new MMO for a while so why did the Irvine-based game gods wait until now to start dropping the teasers?

First occured is spelt wrong it should be Occurred secondly, Hallowe'en is spelt wrong, Should be Halloween, as for the grammer mis-postion in the section it shouldn't be Whatever it is, we should know by now that they are very careful with ''''''they'''''' way they handle?

Should be the way they are handling :) Please fix it :)

Blizzard's New Top Secret MMO

helraider — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:26:24 GMT

fully agreed with Keikun17, if blizzard makes a game it's more than probably something which will leave us with mouths wide opened and drool spilling from our lips

Blizzard's New Top Secret MMO

Indelible — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:26:23 GMT

I've fixed, "occured," and, "they," but I will not be changing hallowe'en as it is accurate :-) Appolgies for the other two however. I've been typing all day :s

Blizzard's New Top Secret MMO

BlasterShot — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:26:22 GMT

GIVE ME MY DIABLO MMO!!

Blizzard's New Top Secret MMO

Ravendarqhart — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:26:21 GMT

SC doesn't lend itself well to the MMO format since its such a large scale concept. The coolness of SC is controlling huge fleets. Most SC players wouldn't be interested in going from commanding entire starfleets to owning just a single ship.

Diablo would be interesting, especially if they allow players to play both Heaven and Hell factions like WoW does with Alliance and Horde.

I would love to see a brand new title however. I didn't get into Blizzard games until WoW, so I'd love to get in on the ground floor of a new Blizzard concept.