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Blizzard Working on “Next-Gen MMO”
Posted 13 months ago by Coop

"It is an unannounced Next-Gen MMO, and that doesn't mean an expansion for World of Warcraft either," stated a Blizzard forum administrator in response to job listings for a “Next-Gen MMO.”  This follows rumors of the Activision merger bringing new games to consoles, which follows rumors of a Starcraft MMO, which follows rumors of a Diablo MMO.

Everywhere Blizzard goes (or Blizzardvision, Actiblizzard, whatever) rumors and speculation follow. Each move is critiqued and analyzed in hopes of finding a morsel of information on Stacraft Universe or Diablmmo. No amount of searching does anything but, in turn, fuel those same damn rumors.

But why do people want these so badly? I know some people who would never, ever play World of Warcraft but would push sick children into the street to get their hands on a Starcraft MMO. This logic escapes me, because Blizzard isn’t known for innovation these days. If they ever do actually get around to making a “new” MMO it will resemble WoW more then any IP it is based off of. The same goes for one of my favorite games of all time, Diablo II. If Blizzard brings an MMO Diablo it will just be WoW in Hell – and to think that is already what I think it is.

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lane
Dec 13, 2007 01:58PM

world of starcraft would be amazing get off it. i'd be a ghost and drive around in my siege tank launching nukes on zerg villages. c'mon now people get with it.

matthew
Dec 13, 2007 12:14PM

i hope it's not a starcraft mmo.. with the whole warhammer 40k mmo that's already been announced. it would be embarrassing if blizzards franchise looked a little TOO much like warhammer 40k's... oh wait, it already does.

User Assimilation Droid
Dec 13, 2007 11:25AM

Yeah well, personally I'm beginning to not trust Blizzard with MMORPGs.
They have this nice little tendency to ignore the fact that hundreds of people are having the same problem on their forums with their game, because =obviously= its all of our computers making the same problem rather than a problem with their crappy patch.

Er.../rant.

Still, a Starcraft MMO Would be okay...ish.

Seriously, the only two games made into MMOs that would get me off of WoW Right now would be if an Arcanum MMORPG were made or if a Discworld Inspired MMORPG (Terry Pratchett) Were made.