Comments on: Blizzard’s Next MMO: Not WoW 2

By: Severian

Severian — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:31:10 +0000

RPSO: Rock Paper Shotgun Online.

There are only 4 classes, but you get to review games, live in a big mansion with lots of sexy babes (or “birds,” if you will), smoke cigars and mock the plebs.

By: CogDissident

CogDissident — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:10:23 +0000

Who knows, they could use an old IP that people forgot blizzard owns.

Blackthorn: Prince of persia with shotguns
Lost Vikings: Puzzles and fart jokes

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:12:42 +0000

I’m hoping for a new IP. While World of Starcraft (Or whatever), would be cool, can anyone imagine playing as a Zerg character? I just don’t think it would work. And with regards to an EVE style game, I think the whole trading, political thing would be too complex to appeal to a mass market. Ideally, I’d like a polished Planetside style thing. With dropships. And stompy robots.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:26:46 +0000

Since it will be a new IP, I’m thinking science-fiction universe, but I am also thinking more story-evolved. One of the big trends in MMO’s is moving away from the endless little quests to something with a bigger longer story. Star Wars talks endlessly about the storyline, FF talks endlessly about the storyline, Wow doesn’t have one. Oh, they have a story, but as your normal player running around in Hellfire Ramparts, you are not much involved in a story. Blizzard is changing things with the WotLK expansion though. I think its needed for anyone except the hardcore pvp’ers who can spend months endlessly fighting other players.

With the experience Blizzard has received in learning how to work things (and the money they have), I suspect they will do something that will far exceed the current crop.

By: Nemolom

Nemolom — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:41:41 +0000

I agree to everything Kanakotka says. Polish is not just some kind of generic formula anyone can apply to a game. If it was then we’d obviously see more of it. We certainly haven’t seen it in any of the MMOs that have been released since WoW. Blizzard appears to have a superb understanding not only of what they want and need to achieve, but their skill in execution is also unsurpassed. I would not be surprised (and not disappointed) if they present a new IP now. The time for it is right, and they should have the economy to “risk” it. Not that anyone would perceive it as a risk, Blizzard’s portfolio taken into consideration. Personally I think there’s much interesting untested ground in the direction of more casual MMOs – more related to Planetside, Quake Wars and CoH than WoW.

By: Kanakotka

Kanakotka — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:24:23 +0000

And everyone who says that blizzard merely takes ideas and polishes them must be in some manner retarded. They do take ideas, of course. Everyone does. Point to me a game developer that you claim doesn’t, and i’ll show you a game where they have taken their ideas from.

Blizzard just does things… right way around, they’re like this gigantic diamond cutter that can cut raw diamonds into beautiful gems, but that’s not just all they do, they encrust their own to make it even more pretty. Look at WoW Talent system for instance. Everyone else has tried to copy that, and everyone else has failed. I’d dare to say Blizzard is about the best game developer there is in these days, even rivaling GOD-games(well, which has gone down under, probably).

By: Kanakotka

Kanakotka — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:20:16 +0000

I don’t ever see how anyone could do a good version of EvE… i mean, earth and beyond was great for what it was, but… then again, i only got to play it around a week before it went down. Shame on that.

However, there is HUGE, HUGE opportunity left after Neocron’s wake. Steampunk and Cyberpunk wave their hands and scream agitatedly. They want their own properly done MMO.
Then, there’s the space flyin’ shooting stuff and so on thing that EvE couldn’t do right, or jumpgate for that matter. I’m a little meh about the next jumpgate, knowing how the developers have done with their other products and lazing off on them… i just hope they can take their time with this one and polish it, and we’ll see what it is.

By: mister k

mister k — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:05:22 +0000

“Blizzard’s entire business model appears to revolve around letting everyone else innovate, then releasing a slightly more polished version and going home with ten times the cash. There’s something about that that will always chime badly with me.”

I dunno, I think their rts introduced a LOT of new elements that other games rip off today. They were still rts games, but it’s a little harsh to tar them with that brush.

And lets face it, while wow couldn’t exist without everquest (which couldn’t exist without ultima which couldn’t exist without mud, to skip a few steps), it took a formula and made a pretty amazing experience. Yes, I, as many others, have tired of it, it doesn’t stop what they’ve done being an impressive work that others are now using.

I couldn’t guess about what blizzard are going to do next, but I’m pretty sure it will actually be awesome. Bear in mind that if you bought wow, and played it for three months and got bored, you would have paid thirty pounds for more hours of gaming than most other games you can experience….

By: Koopa

Koopa — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:32:57 +0000

Lost Vikings Online would be awesome. Would propably be the best co-op game ever!

By: kf76

kf76 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:13:39 +0000

cowboys and indians

By: Rufust Firefly

Rufust Firefly — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:09:22 +0000

It’s going to be Lost Vikings: the MMO. Puzzle Pirates can’t hog all of the puzzle-solving mmorpergers out there.

By: Erlam

Erlam — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:00:22 +0000

Rock and Roll Racing – The MMO would probably kill me with happiness. I would die from loving it that much.