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Post by Steve Farrelly @ 11:35am 13/05/09 | 40 Comments
 Well, a community manager for Blizzard (guys who basically look after fans and forums) has outwardly confirmed the game is an all-new IP (Intellectual Property): "We have nothing to advertise for the new MMO because it's a shell of a game thus far. It'll be a brand new franchise, which means the lore, art, and game play are being developed entirely from scratch. It's an overwhelming process, but a process through which we excel. Our track record supports this."So looks like no StarCraft or Diablo expanded game-world, nor will they revive the Lost Vikings (bastards). But it is good news to finally hear Blizzard are flexing their creative muscle once more. Tags: blizzard 
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Posted 12:48pm 13/5/09
Granted he does not say specifically that it is not Starcraft or Diablo related, but he may as well have.
Posted 12:54pm 13/5/09
Remember that WoW massively expanded the western audience for MMOs, while admittedly beating the shit out the existing players.
Consider also the precedent that StarCraft and WarCraft are independently successful RTS lines from Blizzard.
Not to mention that even if they just took half the however-many-million current WoW players and got them to lay down another hundred bucks for the new game it would be an immediate profit maker.
Posted 01:03pm 13/5/09
Disclaimer: Eve Fanboy
Posted 01:08pm 13/5/09
Disclaimer noted, but you do realise that in software development time can be interchanged with money to a large degree?
Blizzard (or at least their parent) is heavily weighed down with massive piles of fat stacks from WoW revenue, even when we consider what their massive server costs must be like.
Posted 01:16pm 13/5/09
CCP have worked on reducing lag and increasing the PCU (Peak Concurrent Users) which is something like 54 thousand people online at once. Combat of over 1000 people in a single fleet battle, Market and contract systems with HUGE numbers of transactions being done every day.
This makes eve what it is. Anything that does a WoW version of EvE will just fail unless they have a single shard.
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Posted 02:21pm 13/5/09
Anyway, whatever they make I hope it's just as awesome as their other stuff.
Posted 03:01pm 13/5/09
Posted 03:17pm 13/5/09
StarWarEveCraft
A futuristic sci fantasy where Noobs will mingle with Leets to battle on a plant names HtorezA. There will be two factinons (red vs blue) and you will have to pay $20 a month so that they can work out the bugs, have lag and wait have people spamming the Trade Channel.
Expansions will include The Burning Blood Wars and will be set in Space.
....Jesus I can't wait!
Why don't they buy out the Fallout MMO and make it awesome!
Posted 03:39pm 13/5/09
Even if it's set in space, I can't see it being anything like Eve. Eve is in a genre all of its own, and it's not one that I see Blizzard having any sort of interest in. I hope it is a sci-fi MMO though, because there's not a lot out there (other than Eve, which I don't really want to play) to fill this void, and I'm aching for a good MMO to play. So damn sick of fantasy.
Posted 03:43pm 13/5/09
This.
Posted 03:45pm 13/5/09
you know it will be good
and they will be cannablising there own market - however wow will have to run out of steam one day
Posted 03:59pm 13/5/09
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Posted 04:21pm 13/5/09
They're going to get a massive fan base whether the game is good or not.
Because it's blizzard.
Posted 04:46pm 13/5/09
Posted 06:25pm 13/5/09
GTA Vice City / San Andreas
Peds have weps
Peds Riot
Posted 06:29pm 13/5/09
They take other stuff and refine it and kill that category for anyone else with the quality of their work.
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Posted 11:00pm 13/5/09
And we all know that never hurts.
Posted 11:01pm 13/5/09
You work as a lowly blizzard employee in a modern environment and see shit all of the massive profits being reaped by your gaming supergiant.
Posted 12:41am 14/5/09
How is that different than working anywhere else? Unless you own the company, you're not going to see shit all of the massive profits.
Posted 12:55am 14/5/09
P.S Vivendi owns Blizzard.
Posted 01:22am 14/5/09
And I would lurv that!
Posted 07:34am 14/5/09
Not anymore, Activision does now
Posted 08:19am 14/5/09
Haha so naive!
The best an end-of-line employee can hope for is that improved conditions (fresh fruit platters and bean bags and shit like that) come your way if the company makes mega bucks.
Direct profit-sharing isn't a very good way to run a company IMO, and at the extreme inhibits growth and development, which is usually in the endline employee's interest anyway.
Posted 08:40am 14/5/09
No, Activision was merged with Blizzard - Vivendi SA (the frenchies) are still the majority shareholder of the new conglomerate.
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Posted 01:23pm 14/5/09
They've said that they have no intention of stopping production of WoW at this point in time and will be releasing more expansions.
Posted 03:20pm 14/5/09
theres too many space sims
gangster sims will die fast
Posted 03:27pm 14/5/09
I mean this would be the best way to capture a new audience.
Although I can't think of anything that'd work well.
Posted 03:41pm 14/5/09
noooooooooooooooooooooo
Posted 03:44pm 14/5/09
Isn't that what id do?