Titan has been cancelled.

Laerazi_sl said:

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I am utterly and 100% completely shocked at this news.

With that said, new avatar time. Go nuts Column

I would be interested in seeing how Hearthstone is doing financially. I would guess extremely well, with a lower development cost associated obviously, and could very well be getting more from an ROI situation than WoW at the moment.

I remember when Blizzard put the game first and the money second. Obviously the money is always important, they are a business. But they made fun games, and were rewarded for just that. When I see quotes like this:

He explained that Hearthstone had helped the studio realize that they don't need to fit themselves into the box of only making products of a certain scale.

"Maybe we can be what we want to be and inspire groups around the company to experiment, get creative, think outside the box and take chances on things that just might thrill people," Metzen said. "Maybe they don't have to be these colossal, summer blockbuster-type products."

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it means a fundamental shift in design philosophy obviously by using limited development in a more casual environment and increasing ROI 4 fold over capital intensive games. Basically taking minimal risk and turning Blizzard into the next Big Fish Games.

Which, I also hate the shit out of. I am growing tired of the new trend in where a lot of games coming out seem cheap and lifeless. Destiny was a prime example. EQ Next will be another one.

gogojira_sl said:

Welp, I was way off base. I had some hope when it said "Titan" thinking maybe it just meant that initial project and not whatever it turned into. But no, they were very clear in saying it's the next gen MMO. Fucking fuck.

More respect to them for being pretty damn insightful with this decision, but in my head I was answering their rhetorical questions of "are we an MMO company" with "FUCKING YES YOU ARE PLEASE GET BACK TO WORK DAMNIT."

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^^ Exactly. And yes, they did turn into an MMORPG company. And yes, they need to realize the MMORPG genre needs to evolve passed it's stuck point and they will have the same success with "Titan" as they did with WoW. The problem is, with financial success with limited development games like Hearthstone, we will probably see about 50 more variations of that than what they are truly capable of from a development talent.