Blizzard cancels its 'World of Warcraft' successor


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Blizzard cancels its 'World of Warcraft' successor

Titan has fallen

 

"What comes after World of Warcraft?" It's the question Blizzard has been asking for years. WoW is one of the most successful games of all time - just one of many for the studio behind StarCraft, Diablo, and Hearthstone. The next-generation project even had a name: Titan.

 

Titan is dead.

 

Though never official, Blizzard co-founder and CEO Mike Morhaime has confirmed with Polygon that the project has been canceled. Senior VP of story and franchise Chris Metzen elaborated further:

 

We took a step back and realized that it had some cool hooks. It definitely had some merit as a big, broad idea, but it didn't come together.

 

It did not distill. The music did not flow. For all our good intentions and our experience and the pure craftsmanship that we brought together, we had to make that call."

 

Both Metzen and Morhaime intimated to Polygon that "smaller" titles (relative to Blizzard's catalog) like Hearthstone played at least a part in the decision. Polygon promises more Blizzard news throughout this week. Full disclosure: they won't tell us what it is, so now we're just waiting like the rest of the world.

 

Source: The Verge

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Well that is a downer, I was really hoping to see a Sci Fi mmo out of Blizzard at some point. But to be honest with the content they are still pushing out i am not really disappointed with the company at all :D

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Would have been very hard and caused a fragmentation which would lead to increased threat from competition. What ever Blizzard do in the future, there will be the possibility of a different route. When you are at the top of your game, there is only one move you fear.

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WOW is dropping lie a rock and more expansions won't save them. They need something new. And nothing except Asian MMOs will ever be as big as Wow was anymore.

 

Also the problem is that their free to play games make them more money than Wow does, even alpha games that sell hero skins for up to 20?. Hence why they're dropping further MMO development and letting Wow fade. 

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Can't help but think that Blizzard's strategy with Titan was to be their Plan B if WoW got toppled (in terms of popularity) to another MMO. Blizzard has had some serious stay power with WoW.  They are being genuine in their comments about not releasing crap (essentially) but I do suspect that the continued success of WoW and not wanting to split that player base is also what is motivating them.

 

In other words, if ESO or some other MMO had shaken up the market and attracted a large portion of Blizzard's player base I doubt they would be cancelling Titan right now.

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I don't see WoW dying any time soon.  I still have my subscription as active though I rarely play.  The game has definitely died in terms of community, challenge, etc.  Now it's all about having the best gear regardless of skill.  You can buy your way to max level.  I understand times change, and things don't stay the same.. but I guarantee if they allowed players to play earlier expansions on servers running those versions.. it would be even more popular than it is now.

Like if they had a vanilla wow server that ran the last big update before 2.0 (with bug fixes), TBC with last big patch (ZA), WOTLK before Cata, etc.. they would probably have a lot more active subscriptions than they do.

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I don't see WoW dying any time soon.  I still have my subscription as active though I rarely play.  The game has definitely died in terms of community, challenge, etc.  Now it's all about having the best gear regardless of skill.  You can buy your way to max level.  I understand times change, and things don't stay the same.. but I guarantee if they allowed players to play earlier expansions on servers running those versions.. it would be even more popular than it is now.

Like if they had a vanilla wow server that ran the last big update before 2.0 (with bug fixes), TBC with last big patch (ZA), WOTLK before Cata, etc.. they would probably have a lot more active subscriptions than they do.

 

Actually you can't, you can' buy yourself to 80, 90 is max. this makes sense as well since the new content is for 80-90 and up.

 

Also I don't think as many people as you and others think really cares for vanilla, and it's what they're bringing back with WoD anyway. 

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Actually you can't, you can' buy yourself to 80, 90 is max. this makes sense as well since the new content is for 80-90 and up.

 

Also I don't think as many people as you and others think really cares for vanilla, and it's what they're bringing back with WoD anyway. 

 

If you pre-order WoD you get a free level 90 boost.

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At Blizzcon Chris Metzen was talking about at least another 5 expansions for WoW they can update the engine along the way. Besides with a movie set to come out in 2016 that could be a trilogy I doubt Warcraft is going anywhere Go Alliance!

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At Blizzcon Chris Metzen was talking about at least another 5 expansions for WoW they can update the engine along the way. Besides with a movie set to come out in 2016 that could be a trilogy I doubt Warcraft is going anywhere Go Alliance!  For the Horde!

FTFY

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The game has definitely died in terms of community, challenge, etc.  Now it's all about having the best gear regardless of skill.  You can buy your way to max level.

 

Max level gives you nothing. Have you played any HC raids in MoP?

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This is shocking news to me. Blizzard has joined Square and fallen far from it's place as one of the market's most dominant developers.

 

If you would have told the High School version of me that I would have zero interest in future Square or Blizzard projects, I'd never believed you.

 

What the hell happened...?

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All companies lose their lustre at some point, the good ones bounce back.  Pretty hard to have 100% success rate. 

 

Always a blow when companies have to cancel a project, especially one that was in development for so long, but they did a similar thing with SC Ghost, hopefully they come back better for it.  At this point though I imagine a lot of the devs got sent back to wow land since that will have to remain premium for them for even more years now.

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