World of Diablo and World of StarCraft - Who knows what to think now...

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Update 6/15:
[UPDATE 2] Shortly after this story went live, GameSpot was presented with slides that were allegedly from the Vivendi PowerPoint presentation which started the whole rumor avalanche. While Blizzard had not confirmed their authenticity as of press time, the slides did appear legit--and could, to a non-savvy observer, give the appearance that Diablo and Starcraft MMOs were imminent.
In particular, the final slide shows a chart which listed "Warcraft," "Diablo," and "Starcraft" in three rows. The chart is divided into three columns titled "Massively Multiplayer Online," "PC/MAC," and "Console." Each of the chart's nine cells is either colored Navy Blue and filled with titles, meaning Blizzard had released games from a franchise in a genre, or colored light blue for "potential" and left blank, indicating one of the three series could be extended into the specified genre.
For Warcraft, the graph lists "World of Warcraft" in the "Massively Multiplayer Online" column, and all five Warcraft strategy games under "PC/MAC." All three Diablo titles are listed in the same column, as are StarCraft and its Broodwar expansion. All other fields on the chart--the StarCraft MMOG field, the Diablo MMOG field, and the "console" fields for all three franchises are blank and marked "potential."
To the unfamiliar observer, the chart might give the appearance that StarCraft and Diablo MMOGs are in the works. The comments below it must have likely added to the confusion. "Blizzard's three core franchises were born on PC but are naturally extendable," read the first line under the chart. "We are investing heavily now in developing new executions across multiple franchises," continued the slide, just above a bullet-pointed reminder that the company bought Metal Arms developer Swingin' Ape to be the "center of [its] next-gen console strategy."
The slide wraps up by proclaiming that Blizzard has "put investments in place for numerous future Blizzard products." Then it delivers the ultimate teaser: "Due to long development cycles, for competitive reasons, we do not disclose releases far ahead of street date."
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http://www.gamespot.com/news/6152718.html

Update 6/14:
Blizzard responds:
No, that rumor is not true in regard to Blizzard. We believe that the rumor circulating about this subject is based on a misinterpretation of information provided to industry analysts. We do not currently have any MMO development plans beyond the upcoming expansion for World of Warcraft, and furthermore, we don't have any intentions to focus on only one genre or platform with our future games.
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http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/11159/Blizzards-Response-to-the-MMO-Rumor/

June 13, 2006 - A sequel to Starcraft is right at the top of many gamers' "Please, God, Make This Happen" list. Well, the Lord works in mysterious ways. If not a true sequel, gamers may be getting some more Starcraft action after all.

During a presentation to Wall Street today, a company representative from Vivendi reportedly said, "All Blizzard franchises will become MMOGs." The rep said they have a model in place to produce an MMOG for $50 million over the next three years.

World of Warcraft is one of the great success stories of our time. The big question is: with WoW already sucking hours/weeks/years of gamers' lives away, how will we ever find time to play World of Starcraft or World of Diablo? Alas, that these evil days should be ours!
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http://pc.ign.com/articles/712/712554p1.html
 
So apparently Vivendi found something that worked in World of Warcraft, and is now going to whore all of Blizzard's franchises out against each other in the MMORPG ring.

Diablo already had an online component, why fuck with that?
 
Probably the most disappointing news I've heard this year. I have no interest in MMOs whatsoever and changing Blizzard's franchises to MMO's means there's no hope for a Diablo 3...
 
I just had multiple joygasms... However, I then remembered that MMORPGs are fun for 3 months whereas I am still trying to recover from D2...
 
Damn. I was just hoping for a regular RTS sequel to Starcraft.

Nothing against World of Warcraft, but I'm tired of so many MMORPGs coming out.

After finishing the Zerg campaign on the Brood Wars expansion disk, I was hoping for all my questions to be finally answered in Starcraft 2. Alas, they probably never will.
 
[quote name='sevdustflyer']How about a Starcraft expansion for WoW. Think about it. THINK ABOUT IT!![/QUOTE]

Yeah, that would be cool...don't see it happening, though.


And I just don't get this...how can they do this without directly competing with themselves? It doesn't make sense. Personally, I don't believe this will be the case.
 
Vivendi Guy: "Hey, Mr Executive Guy, I just invented a device to print money! Look at this!"

Vivendi Exec: "Hmm, how does it work?"

VG: "We simply feed the souls of Blizzard developers into this end and as they slowly have all creativity drained out by being forced to churn out derivative MOG after derivitive MOG, the other side shoots out stacks of 100 dollar bills!"

VE: "Brilliant!"
 
[quote name='Chacrana']Probably the most disappointing news I've heard this year. I have no interest in MMOs whatsoever and changing Blizzard's franchises to MMO's means there's no hope for a Diablo 3...[/QUOTE]

It seems like Starcraft would take the biggest hit in becoming a MMORPG, but I can't believe I'm the only one who's noticed how close WoW skews to Diablo II anyway, rather than the Warcraft games. I mean, it's all about the triple-sided skill trees and rare drops, people.
 
It didn't take Blizzard too long to figure out that while Battlenet was making quite a bit of money, $15/month is even better.
 
[quote name='trq']It seems like Starcraft would take the biggest hit in becoming a MMORPG, but I can't believe I'm the only one who's noticed how close WoW skews to Diablo II anyway, rather than the Warcraft games. I mean, it's all about the triple-sided skill trees and rare drops, people.[/quote]

Amen to that.

It sucks but Blizzard knows, now, that creating a game that costs $15/mo to play is far more lucrative than a single player game.

F**K! I want Starcraft 2 to come out.
 
[quote name='trq']It seems like Starcraft would take the biggest hit in becoming a MMORPG, but I can't believe I'm the only one who's noticed how close WoW skews to Diablo II anyway, rather than the Warcraft games. I mean, it's all about the triple-sided skill trees and rare drops, people.[/QUOTE]

But Diablo wasn't about playing for a week just to get a single level up. You could actually make progress in a reasonable amount of time and you didn't have to play online with some potentially braindead people.
 
[quote name='Chacrana']But Diablo wasn't about playing for a week just to get a single level up. You could actually make progress in a reasonable amount of time and you didn't have to play online with some potentially braindead people.[/QUOTE]

Don't forget grinding the 4 hour long instance where you compete with 39 other people to get a piece of armor!
 
[quote name='Chacrana']But Diablo wasn't about playing for a week just to get a single level up. You could actually make progress in a reasonable amount of time and you didn't have to play online with some potentially braindead people.[/quote]

You still have to put up with brain dead people, you just don't depend on them. :lol:
 
[quote name='Roufuss']Don't forget grinding the 4 hour long instance where you compete with 39 other people to get a piece of armor![/quote]

fuck WoW and Diablo ][ got boring in the endgame.

My friend keeps trying to get me back into it, "Dude it's sooooo new once you get deep into the end game."

Yea, right. It's just like the above. They fuck around in the same few three hour instances OVER AND OVER again. "Dude, I got a sweet purple pants drop!" Yawn. I'd rather just jerk-off to Saved by the Bell reruns.
 
[quote name='Kayden']You still have to put up with brain dead people, you just don't depend on them. :lol:[/QUOTE]

Yeah, but I'd rather just play single player. That way, you don't have to deal with retarded people at all.
 
[quote name='Chacrana']Yeah, but I'd rather just play single player. That way, you don't have to deal with retarded people at all.[/quote]
But I like exploiting them. One day on D2, I decided to go trading.

I gathered up assorted crap rares and sets with a few crap Unis and traded them for a SOJ. Then I traded the SOJ for X items. Then those for X+1. Etc...

After like 4 hours, I had 3 SoJ, buriza, Occulus, tarn, umes, etc... I made like 12000% profit. :lol:

This was like 3-4 years ago before the 1.10 and whites and all that other shit.
 
[quote name='LinkinPrime']Update from gamespot.com[/QUOTE]

All three Diablo's...? Unless they are counting that shitty Diablo 1 port on Playstation, did they just drop the bomb that Diablo 3 is still coming out?
 
Uhh... World of Starcraft was Gamespot's April Fool's joke.
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Not to be nitpicky, but #1 - Blizzard said it's not happening. #2 - The rep said MMO, not MMORPG. You could argue that playing Diablo 2 over battlenet is MMO because it's massively multiplayer online ... but not rpg. Right? (Even though it limits to only a small number of players, they're all on the same network).

Or maybe I'm off base, here? I wouldn't play either of them anyway.
 
[quote name='the_gloaming']Not to be nitpicky, but #1 - Blizzard said it's not happening. #2 - The rep said MMO, not MMORPG. You could argue that playing Diablo 2 over battlenet is MMO because it's massively multiplayer online ... but not rpg. Right? (Even though it limits to only a small number of players, they're all on the same network).

Or maybe I'm off base, here? I wouldn't play either of them anyway.[/quote]

:whistle2:s But Diablo 2 IS an rpg...
 
How about they make Warcraft vs. Starcraft! Imagine Zerglings and Night Elves duking it out in a massively multiplayer setting. They could even raise the subscription prices so that you're paying 20 bucks a month!
 
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