Ah shit. Blizzard to make all franchises MMOs.

if this results in a good sci fi mmo, then im all for it, bring on world of starcraft. that said, as much as i play mmo's they are absolutely parasitic. they require a large time investement to see the full content, they package substandard gameplay(yes even my beloved city of heroes dosent even stand up to the worst 3d adventure game game), you really cant see any long term effect on the gameworld because it has to be unchanging enough for everyone to get a shot at content, and monthly subscription rates suck, yeah i can afford it, but that dosent mean that its a gaming model i like.

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Originally Posted by Valgar

No, Blizzard can't beat Starcraft.

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I agree. Look what happened when they made Warcraft III, a game that improved on its predecessor in every conceivable way yet was different enough that it left many fans cold. As a result, WC3 sold well yet not as well as expected.

If Blizzard tried to make a Starcraft sequel, I fear the reaction would be the same.

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Originally Posted by Andy

StarCraft 2 pls.

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This blows. I dont do much PC gaming, but 90% is Blizzard and NONE of it is MMOs. Damnit. Just give me Diablo 3 first please. I know, not gonna happen.

Why do we need more than one? Wouldn't another Blizzard MMO just compete with their own WoW?

Fix the lag in Diablo II imo.

WoW is a fun game, but the constant server problems drove me away. I think they're better off making Starcraft 2 rather than going gung-ho for MMOs. They probably won't do a Diablo 3 since all those people are now working on Guild Wars.

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Originally Posted by ChaoofNee

Why do we need more than one? Wouldn't another Blizzard MMO just compete with their own WoW?

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MMOs have a very high attrition rate -- but a lot of players will bounce from game to game, instead of quitting the genre entirely. Keeping those players under the same publisher even as they bounce from game to game is a huge win, in that instance.

This is why you see companies like NCSoft and Netmarble try to build up a lineup of online games that is ludacrisp -- for diversity and redundancy.

(That's the omfg short analysis of it.)

So while it may cause WoW numbers to dip when WoS comes out, if they can keep people who get burnt out on WoW in-house they still get their monthly subscription.

-Dippy

If this means Warcraft 4 is more like the original plans for Warcraft 3 (with large epic worlds and continents getting taken over Risk-style and armies that level up), I'm all fucking over it.

Otherwise, fuck MMOs. WOW is fun, but I'm not ever playing one ever again. WOW is enough.

Indeed. Once I got done with WoW I was pretty much convinced I wont pick up an MMO ever... unless its totally different from the genre as we know it today. WoW supposedly was different from all the rest, and it was... for the first 70 or so hours. Then it becomes the same grindfest as every other game. I dont know how you guys kept it up for so long. PvP is now an even bigger grindfest than the instances.

WoW is a masterpiece of this generation of MMOs, it rises above its peers... but its still in the micro not a very good game. Much work needs to be done. UO had the right idea IMO but it was castrated long ago... if Blizzard does make a new MMO I hope they build it on the UO model rather than the EQ one.