Blizzard's Fourth Project: StarCraft MMO?

lvlaximus — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:54 GMT

IMO like i've said from the beginning Starcraft mmo ... open and shut case. makes the most sense business wise and fan base wise there are few successful sci-fi mmo's and they are going to try to smash Warhammer 40k (also a up and coming sci-fi with an already large fan base) mmo coming up the road here whom is trying to get a drop on the sci fi mmo market yet to be pinned down by a good franchise.
If it isn't Starcraft blizzard will have made a costly mistake imo.

Blizzard's Fourth Project: StarCraft MMO?

MisterTalentX — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:53 GMT

Personally like a waste of time. They need to getthat team working on Starcraft: Ghost dammit! Just my 2 cents

Blizzard's Fourth Project: StarCraft MMO?

oakpack4 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:52 GMT

we all knew it was coming...eventually they're gonna transfer all the WOW guys over there when they're out of bosses and expack ideas....it's gonna be weird but we'll have to see, blizzard has the talent to make it good ;D

Blizzard's Fourth Project: StarCraft MMO?

bigdoggblacc — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:51 GMT

It's not like they can't work on multiple games at once. They hired a whole bunch of new people just to start work on this project.

Blizzard's Fourth Project: StarCraft MMO?

magensparks — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:50 GMT

Ehhh... I'm not big on science fiction based stuff. which is why I never tried Starcraft... but it's the next logical step. If anything it will be set up nearly the same as World of Warcraft.... What I can predict is that it will be relatively bug free, but take 10 years to be released and most certainly will succeed where so many other sci-fi mmo's failed.

Blizzard is somewhat of a blessing and a curse. Blessing in the way of creating a good solid game that doesn't require a lot of patching in the beginning...but a curse cause they make us wait too darn long to get it!

(and no.. I'm not bitter or anything... I've only been waiting patiently for Diablo 3 since I finished the D2 expansion pack about 7 or 8 years ago. ... I don't recall the exact release date for d2 and the expansion.)

Blizzard's Fourth Project: StarCraft MMO?

Vilgefortz — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:49 GMT

Ahh, the pipe. Pass it this way.

Blizzard's Fourth Project: StarCraft MMO?

Strasner — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:48 GMT

starcraft universe wouldnt apeal as much to me as superman world tbh

Blizzard's Fourth Project: StarCraft MMO?

Korosu — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:47 GMT

if you never tried starcraft then your opinion is retarded, go jump off a bridge.

Blizzard's Fourth Project: StarCraft MMO?

spork_man22 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:46 GMT

buy the earth and beyond title from ea and make earth and beyond II :(

Blizzard's Fourth Project: StarCraft MMO?

Vilgefortz — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:45 GMT

Hey I heard DCUO is going to have superman and batman and such...

Blizzard's Fourth Project: StarCraft MMO?

Gimpbo — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:44 GMT

Eve has obviously proven sci fi can be done. One of the big reasons I think it's been successful is because it's not really competing with wow like all the other games wow has stifled.

If you think about the way something works in wow and take the opposite, you've probably guessed how it works in eve. Blizzard designs titles to be super accessible, eve is designed to be cold and uncaring (paraphrased) with a nasty learning curve. Wow is designed to be low risk, low reward; eve is high risk, high reward. In wow if you die it costs you little to nothing, die in eve and it costs you a little to a whole-heck-of-a-lot. Wow is theme park, eve is sandbox. Wow's strength is pve, eve's strength is pvp. Wow skills come with play time, eve skills come with real time. Newbies can't really help or hurt vets in wow, but they sure can in eve. Your character stops progressing at 70 in wow, it never stops in eve. Wow is about collecting gear, eve is not. Newbie ships and equipment remain useful in eve, they're junk in wow.

etc etc

It's probably pretty safe to say blizzard will make wow's successor, but I wouldn't expect it to dent eve's subscriptions in the slightest, sci fi or not. It's a different market.

Blizzard's Fourth Project: StarCraft MMO?

Nosmo — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:43 GMT

If they make a star craft mmo, I really hope they take the graphic reqs up a notch. Not much mind you, a big reason WoW is so huge is any one can play it. So by up a notch I mean just a little. =P

I really want the graphics to be a little more gritty than WoW has. For example, if Bliz used similar graphics like Warhammer is using, that would be awesome.

But yes, a sci-fi mmo from bliz? Where do I sign up! =)

Blizzard's Fourth Project: StarCraft MMO?

NekoCL — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:42 GMT

Uhm. You WERE there for WoW's release, right?

Not very much patching? WoW's Release? They just don't go together.

Blizzard's Fourth Project: StarCraft MMO?

jacensolo775 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:41 GMT

I would love a Starcraft MMO, but I can't imagine how it'd play out as Starcraft was more of a... campain game.

Blizzard's Fourth Project: StarCraft MMO?

redemptionx9 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:40 GMT

EVE online wasn't too good I thought - But then again I found it difficult to get into so I could be wrong

I'd love to play as a ghost :D Loading people with canister shells :D