Well, it looks like Blizzard's secret has been revealed a day early. Their new title is World of Warcraft and is a MMORPG.

During a press conference today at the European Computer Trade Show, Blizzard Entertainment unveiled World of Warcraft, a massively multiplayer, online role-playing game set in the rich fiction of Blizzard's Warcraft universe. Featuring bold 3D graphics and deep, immersive gameplay, World of Warcraft will allow thousands of players to adventure together in this epic setting and will provide them with a new, in-depth perspective on familiar lands, former battlefields, and heroes from the legendary universe. In addition, World of Warcraft will introduce new, uncharted territories and foes never before seen by followers of the series.

Personally, it's quite a let down seeing another fantasy-based MMO role-playing game. Why couldn't they use the Starcraft license!?!! Why!? Of course, 99% of the people who read this are going to be excited about a Blizzard MMO game/are EQ/AC/UO fans, so Huzzah!

isn't there a Star Wars one coming?

mm, there needs to be a space based MMPOG... someone buy the Stargate title for use in a game or something :)

Origin were making a Privateer Online until the wise folks at EA cancelled everything Origin was making that didn't have "Ultima" in the title

its "me fail english", duh

this is a real disapointment

does that mean WC3 will be nothing like the first 2? that is gay if it does

so inst warcraft going to be single player ? thats why warcraft was fun !

Well I don't think thats its actually true...until I hear the "offical" offical annoucement today.

Blizzard said that it wouldn't be based off any of their exisiting franchises so it wouldn't make sense that they would make a MMORPG based in the Warcraft universe.....We've already got a Warcraft game coming as well so 1 is enough I think.

We shall see I suppose.

warcraft is great.

The world isnt in warcraft universe aparently :/

So it will be s*** I rekon.

Unless they do a wierd RPG with heavy elements from Diablo chucked in..

Random maps/dungeons would make it an awsome game.
It should also have Kingdoms that the players join when they create their character. And the kingdom has to go out and collect wood/gold/oil and whatnot so that the kingdom can build seige equipment and other army stuff. Doing all this with a raging war on each border with other kingdoms full of players.

haha That'd rock hardcore!
HAve special missions that require a bunch of people to assisnate the king and all sorts of cool stuff.

And have 1 lucky player the ruler of each kingdom. However this ruler can be overthrowen with votes/force, and kingdoms can be whiped out too!

AAHAHAHAAH
Sif it'd be that good.

It'd be like Collect the ever increasing items so you can progress to ever increasing tougher monsters. Bahh they are so s*** those games.

It is in the Worldcraft univers - they have confirmed it.

Looks very nice I must admit - and I've never played a MMORPG before.


The trailer movie is in the usual quality of blizzard movies :)

Warcraftiii.net has a bit of info about it as well as links to other sites with indepth info. Worth having a look at before you make a judgement.


I'll have to know more about it, and see how production goes before I would buy it - but it looks promising. It's Blizzard after all - one company that only deals in very high quality games.

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[quote]Origin were making a Privateer Online until the wise folks at EA cancelled everything Origin was making that didn't have "Ultima" in the title[/quote]

There's a group now trying to do this, though I really suspect they're going to hit some legal trouble with what they want to do - especailly since the group is headed by a 15 year old knowitall (DarkMage)...
'Wing Commander Universe', as it's called (no permission to the rights at all from Origin/EA) is supposedly using the VegaStrike engine, one of two similar engines currently in development for this similar genre - the other being the ECE ('Jacinta') engine which I'm working on.

Electronic Arts are idiots though - and Privateer online was a MMPOG flight sim - not an adventure as the current MMPOGs are.

Within the next few years I'd like to look at the viability of writing a space based MMPOG Starcraft/Total-Annihilation style MMPOG. When I have the experience, and time, that is. That, of course, is still quite some way off :)