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Old 20th December 2010, 12:10 PM   #1
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Default Blizzard Confirms "Titan" as Next MMO

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Early this month, an austere document appeared online purporting to be Blizzard Entertainment's road map for the next five years. Dated April 2, 2010, the document listed quarterly release windows for all of the Irvine, California-based studio's projects, including Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm (Q4 2011), Diablo 3 (Q4 2011), and World of Warcraft's fourth expansion (Q2 2012). Also appearing in that chart was a mystery project, bearing the title Titan and a Q4 2013 release window.

Blizzard insists Titan won't be one of World of Warcraft's competitors.

Though the validity of the chart is apocryphal at best, it has been lent some measure of credence this week, courtesy of none other than Blizzard cofounder and executive vice president Frank Pearce. As part of the 2010 VGA ceremony, Pearce spoke with gaming blog Destructoid, confirming Titan as at the very least a working title for the studio's much-speculated upon new massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

"Titan is… the media is not meant to know anything about that," Pearce said. "It's our next-gen MMO, and we've only started talking about it in a limited fashion because we want to leverage the fact that we're working on something like that for the purpose of recruiting--getting some of the best talent in the industry on that."

Blizzard has been teasing out pieces of its next big project since 2007, when it confirmed that a non-World of Warcraft MMOG was in development. The game, which Blizzard does not see as a competitor to WOW, will be an all-new property with, according to Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, "a little more broad appeal."
More broad appeal.. hmm. Console/PC MMO?

Also if it's a new MMO with a broader appeal I don't see how it can't be competition for WoW, it'll be dividing the audience for sure.
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Old 20th December 2010, 12:57 PM   #2
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Also if it's a new MMO with a broader appeal I don't see how it can't be competition for WoW, it'll be dividing the audience for sure.
Thats working on the assumption that it will be an MMORPG. Something like an MMOFPS would not compete with WoW, not directly anyway, as despite both being MMOs they would be entirely different genres.

And as far as I know its never been described as anything other than a 'non World of Warcraft, MMO', which leaves a lot of scope to try something different.
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edit: http://www.destructoid.com/vgas-inte...d-189714.phtml
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Thats working on the assumption that it will be an MMORPG. Something like an MMOFPS would not compete with WoW, not directly anyway, as despite both being MMOs they would be entirely different genres.

And as far as I know its never been described as anything other than a 'non World of Warcraft, MMO', which leaves a lot of scope to try something different.
yeah, it's starcraft MMO....
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Old 20th December 2010, 6:04 PM   #5
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"a little more broad appeal"

because wow didnt appeal to anywhere near enough people........
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Old 23rd December 2010, 12:30 PM   #6
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yeah, it's starcraft MMO....
Oh god I wish.

I would drop everything for a World of Starcraft!
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Old 16th January 2011, 1:53 PM   #7
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because wow didnt appeal to anywhere near enough people........

well said.
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Old 18th January 2011, 2:10 PM   #8
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Oh god I wish.

I would drop everything for a World of Starcraft!
World of Starcraft haha, i'd roll a Dark Templar in a flash!
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World of Starcraft haha, i'd roll a Dark Templar in a flash!
Imagine being a Level 60 Overlord...

All you do is transport people around and reveal stealth units LOL.
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Imagine being a Level 60 Overlord...

All you do is transport people around and reveal stealth units LOL.
Don't you get to empty your bowels from a great height?

You're missing a lot of appeal with that!
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Don't you get to empty your bowels from a great height?

You're missing a lot of appeal with that!
The pvp shenanigans of such a move would be endless!
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"a little more broad appeal"

because wow didnt appeal to anywhere near enough people........
I wonder if this is to imply they want to expand their market share to consoles, given how they've not done so with WoW.

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In world of starcraft, marines do a lot of guard duty.
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