Venturebeat: Blizzard delays unannounced MMO until 2016, resets whole project

I doubt the recent loss of subs scared them to change the game, would have to be brain dead not to expect that to happen at this point, and if anything would only scare them to change their subscription model, I thought the rumors were that titan was going the route of free to play and buy the little addons and content like every other mmo is doing now anyways.

Or maybe they came to their senses and finally start working on the starcraft mmo! So wonder who's still in those 30 core positions now, the same "A-team" they pulled off wow so long ago to make this? lol

I wonder if Tigole and Furor are still on the team?

So when does the new engine get rolled into WoW? New Models and textures for all!

Maybe with facebook having issues they had to rethink their platform.

kudos_sl said:

Hahahaha! Just goes to show what a pile of shit Blizzard has become the past 5-8 years. I love how the SoE conference will be 100x more interesting now than Blizzcon. If you bought a ticket to Blizzcon just get a refund because it's gonna be shit now.

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nah. blizzard has a long history of shitcanning projects that are not meeting their standards. The real question was how D3 got through.

Like has been stated, many Blizzard products have been almost completely retooled in the past. Blizzard has also never really shown any of the secret sauce on this game, so it's not like a DN:F where you had them cock-teasing the gaming community with alpha demos every couple years.

The problem is that there is no game out there that is crazy new and amazing for them to iterate on and make better. So they are having a tough time making something amazing. That's my theory.

Draegan_sl said:

The problem is that there is no game out there that is crazy new and amazing for them to iterate on and make better. So they are having a tough time making something amazing. That's my theory.

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Probably. Blizzard has always refined what was already out in the gaming world. They have never been an original idea company.

So the real release date is 2020? Right guys?

Draegan_sl said:

The problem is that there is no game out there that is crazy new and amazing for them to iterate on and make better. So they are having a tough time making something amazing. That's my theory.

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Lol, you are probably right. Which means that Titan was just another WoW clone, doomed to ridicule and failure.

It is clear that the ground has shifted too substantially for them to continue in the WoW-mold they were likely pursuing. I'm most interested in whether or not Blizzard is capable of genuine innovation these days, so the fact that the game was shitcanned is not at all a surprise to me. Won't see V2 before 2018 at the earliest I'd say. But still, with the short shelf-life of D3, I kinda have to wonder what the ongoing revenue stream is going to be if WoW continues to bleed subs.

I see little hope on the MMO horizon. The genre is stale, boring, and unfocused.

Dandai_sl said:

Who better to clone WoW than Blizzard, though?

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Sure, but all that would do is move their dwindling subs from WoW to Titan. And since Blizzard thinks they will continue to lose tons of subs in the coming years because of the plethora of F2P WoW clones out there, it doesn't really make much sense to add another one.

Blizzard is in a strange place. WoW was so massively successful that it is almost impossible for their next mmo to be considered a success, especially if it is more of the same old tired formula.

Well, I guess this gives SOE a window to shove EQNext's half-aborted fetus into the world without fear of Titan.

What the fuck are they going to talk about at Blizzcon this year?

Derkon_sl said:

What the fuck are they going to talk about at Blizzcon this year?

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Hearthstone, duh.

Derkon_sl said:

What the fuck are they going to talk about at Blizzcon this year?

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Probably D3 expansion.


and hearthstone...