Comments on: Are Blizzard Digging Their Own Grave For WoW?

By: luvy duvy

luvy duvy — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:56:56 +0000

no way i am paying 2 subscriptions HELL NO! if they make a game better then Wow then i will go to that one this is what blizz would probably do

Make world of warcraft more shity to play so you can play there new MMO

or give us some sort of deal you get so and so off if you play both

or eventually end wow alltogether so you can play the new game

I think they should just stick with what works Wow work on it make it better without alternating the graphics so everyone can enjoy remaking the game like there gonna do with cataclysm cause you know what could happen they advertise some game everyone goes to it like in Age of Conan or avion they hate it they go back to wow then move on and blizz loses allot of money

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:52:28 +0000

Yeah, I think Diablo 3 will be 2011 and the new MMO in 2012.. maybe even 2013 - it wouldn’t surprise me.

By: ZachPruckowski

ZachPruckowski — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:32:21 +0000

“Now Blizzard fans will be getting 4 major Blizzard games within about 12 months: Diablo 3, Starcraft 2, WoW: Cataclysm and the new MMO.”

There is absolutely no way the new MMO is going from unannounced to announced to demoed to beta testing to release in 12 months. It’ll be 2012 at the earliest before we’re playing this new MMO. And it’d be very surprising if Diablo 3 came out in 2010. They’ve publicly said they’re only targeting two releases in 2010 - StarCraft 2 and Cataclysm.

By: SmakenDahed

SmakenDahed — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:40:00 +0000

It’s going to be a Shadowrun MMO… okay, probably not.

If I had to put a real guess out there it would likely be a Starcraft MMO which would draw from the same pool of players but be different enough to draw in people that are craving the Sci-fi experience rather than the fantasy experience.

I’m not sure what I’d do. I suspect I’ll try it, but I don’t know that I would commit to it. I’m very happy where I am now, so I doubt I’ll leave WoW entirely.

World of Starcraft (or maybe Universe of Starcraft).

By: Dblade

Dblade — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:40:31 +0000

You can see it in action earlier, with FFXI and FFXIV. I haven’t been following the FFXI community recently, but I have the feeling that despite the developers intend to have both games exist, they really want players to move on. That’s why the races in the new game look similar, and you may be able to transfer your name and your friends list.

I think that people would subscribe to both WoW and the new MMO if the new one is different in tone-if it were a starcraft MMO or something. Even then you only have so many hours in the day.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:28:54 +0000

Exactly why it’s not necessarily the MMO’s fault. If anything, I’d say that the *player* is the most important factor in how much time is spent on any given game. And when you get obsessive gamers, and find a way to monetize that, you can print money.

Imagine if Nippon Ichi could make Disgaea into a sub game, or Square Enix doing that with a Final Fantasy. Er… yeah.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:11:34 +0000

I suspect most people feel the same way.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:11:18 +0000

Yeah, it’s an interesting point. If it’s true, then Blizzard could stand to make a huge killing with 2 MMOs.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:10:29 +0000

Absolutely. But I doubt it. Blizzard play it safe and have too much to risk. I think any new model they could come up with would only make them less money than they earn now from the monthly subscription.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:09:34 +0000

I think SOE compensated by creating their all access pass. Essentially they realised that it was better to have a bunch of people paying slightly more for a handful of games than slightly less for one. Of course, they have a whole library of subscription games to attract the player too unlike Blizzard.