We now have one itty-bitty detail regarding Blizzard’s unannounced, but often speculated upon, unannounced IP: it’s an MMO.
Blizzard’s community manager, “Zarhym,” spilled the genre beans on the official World of Warcraft forums when he responsed to an enthusiast’s ramblings on everything Blizzard, which included a stern dismissal of a new Blizzard MMO.
“We have nothing to advertise for the new MMO because it's a shell of a game thus far,” he wrote. “We've already stated it'll be a brand new franchise, which means the lore, art, and game play are being developed entirely from scratch.”
So, there you have it. The unannounced IP is an MMO and it’s apparently still raw. Twenty bucks says it’ll still come out before Duke Nukem For -- oh yeah. I forgot.
[via Ars Technica]
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4:00 AM on 05.14.2009
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That of course, doesn't mean that it will.
But WoW is so far ahead, you'd think the only people who could better WoW and the makers of WoW. I don't even know why WoW is the best, But I've tried lots of MMO's, and none of them hold a candle to WoW... I know alot of them copy the gameplay/UI/Quest systems of WoW, but they don't get it right. Beats me.
@Aurain
I could write a series of blogs on what WoW does right compared to other failed/niche MMOs. The main reason is - they cater to the casual crowd with simple, pick up and play gameplay, and have the most extensive and addicting end-game raiding system that will most likely ever be conceived.
I like to think its like a casino. They bring you in with the flash, the sounds and the promise of possible riches.
They keep you there because they're feeding you drinks, letting you win a little and giving you all sorts of random reasons to stay (High roller tables, table chips, random registered guest giveaways, arguably pretty ladies in revealing outfits, a hot machine, in house food...)
Not that its a bad thing. The psychology of keeping gamers is fascinating.
I really do, I want a nice new addictive MMO to play.
I'd kill for a new Final Fantasy MMO set in Ivalice with Viera/Hume/Bangaa/Nu Mou instead of the FFXI world...
And with none of 11's crappiness.
Blizz had stated many times, had help wanted adds, and ben apart of talks about a new IP and that it was and MMO.
Most of us that fallow the PC gaming mmo or rpg game groups knew about this far longer then this blue post.
The Blue post was mad to stop the idiots of the Blizz forums from talking about a WORLD OF STARCRAFT, or WORLD OF DIABLO.
But its is still good to see that Dtoid is starting to fallow more PC things.
And for that Brad Nicholson, I am going to lift a dumbbell in your honor.
As far as the complaints of it being new compared to WoW's extensive lore and litiny of games, it's got one of the best lore teams in the world working on it. The fact that it's new isn't a bad thing, it just means it'll be different.
Guess we'll have to wait and see in oh..10+ years when they announced it's in development hah.
TMNT MMO FTW?
Lol TMNT!!! I'm just afraid that we might run out of colored bandanas.