Blizzard delays unannounced MMO until 2016, resets whole project
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http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/28/blizzard-delays-unannounced-mmo-until-2016-resets-whole-project-exclusive/#LkSFcisD6IACzgAf.01
Project reset, so when the hell are we going to see something??
Project reset, so when the hell are we going to see something??
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At least they didn't do a massive layoff. Hope the dudes there are still having fun on the projects they were moved to in the meantime.
I feel sorry for the people involved for their time and effort that wont see the light of day but I'm sure it's going to be worth it in the end if we end up with a worthy WoW successor.
I guess there goes my hopes of seeing anything Titan related on Blizzcon this year too :P had my fingers crossed that they'd show something from it this year.
"A delayed game is eventually good; a bad game is bad forever." -Shigeru Miyamoto
And that didn't work out so well for DNF
"Don't piss into the wind"
Also could be that they'll end up keeping most of the art assets for Titan and they're just shifting everyone away while they rework the core gameplay functionality.
I highly doubt it will be a success like WoW was. times have changed.
Oh well, I'll let Wildstar be my focus until 2016 then :P
Better then ten years of doing nothing and 3 years of rushing the project disappointing many Blizz fans.
I am pretty sure its just the project and not the people who are working on it as they have a firm understanding of the project I am certain they wont let go of their groups that easily unless they decide to scrap them off too.
Also, they could be doing it to maybe prepare it from the get go so it can go on consoles as well.
Or they realize a lot of people arent happy with it being on earth.
or all of the above
I was looking forward to seeing some stuff about it this year too. The in-game cinematics in HOTS are just fuckin' incredible... I was hoping to see Titan footage with similar art.
Firefall main art direction and concept guys are former Blizzard guys and well you can speculate the rest...
true, but what if the over all look and feel of Firefall was too close to what Titan would have been ? from my experience working on Firefall i felt it could have been a blizzard idea for a game.
A "blizzard idea for a game" is also a very curious thought. What defines a Blizzard game? Blizzard is not a genre, but a dev studio. They've made RTS, MMOs, and action RPGs.
I bet Bungie's happy...
I seriously doubt they are restarting the project from an art perspective, or even a lore or story perspective, it's most likely a restart on the actual gameplay, and just that.
Indeed, it's been like 5 years since "Titan" was "discovered" by discovered I mean that we knew that there was another game being developed, but in secret. I would bet that "Titan" has been in development for 6 years, and well, compared to the great ideas and mechanics that we're seeing in the new MMORPG generation, I think they just realized that "Titan" wasn't that cool and wasn't giving something new to catch the player's interest.
i don't know either its true, in that case its good on their side since it shows they still have the power/capital/passion for making a proper game by going back to the drawingboard when they feel it isn't what it could be.
Another option is that its just a false rumor.
or the last option is that its a false rumor by blizzard themselves so they can blow us away with a badass trailer while we didn't expect to see one
Interesting point.
no, absolutely not.
MASSIVE OPINIONATED POST ALERT.
i don't think they can live up to the success of WoW... WoW was built up over a long period of time, it didn't start out as this huge raving success, it took its time to get there, and once it got there it never let go (and that's fantastic).
but the problem is, every mmo... EVERY mmo that's released now is compared to WoW, and titan would be no different. there will always be "something" that pisses each person off because "it's just not WoW". on top of that, the mentality of players has changed quite drastically now from when WoW was launched. at launch it was a grind fest, the majority of players took a LONG time to get to end game, and when they got there it was rich and varied with plenty to do. over the years it's become easier and easier to hit max level from rolling a new toon, and the content has largely stayed the same with the exception of cataclysm. the reason it's gotten easier? players don't want to grind anymore. they want to get all of the achievements in super quick time. and they want to play end game on the first day. it's almost as if players just want a compelling RPG with a social element attached over the oldschool mmo complex.
and therein lies the problem. Titan has to be drastically different enough from WoW that there can be little to no comparison between the two games. and it has to strike the increasingly difficult balance of grind vs achievement, something that's in constant flux among established games let alone a new release.
and let's not forget, the reason many people are still playing WoW isn't because WoW is so fantastic... it IS a great game, to be sure. but there are better, newer titles (again my opinion) that aren't as successful for a simple reason: people are committed to WoW because they feel they've invested a huge portion of time/money into it. to switch to something else would mean everything they've done in WoW is a waste. people don't like that feeling, even if it's true, even if they KNOW playing WoW is a waste of their time, they'll keep doing it because they don't want to face that reality.
i honestly don't see how anyone, even Blizz can create something that's as successful as WoW has been. it was created in the middle of a perfect storm, all the stars aligning, and all the fates coming together. Titan will be fantastic, i'm sure. but that won't make it as successful as WoW, from a financial point of view, which lets face it, is the only view that they care about.
TLDR: WoW is like Gangnam Style. it was a phenomenal success, but as a phenomenon, it's unlikely that you could ever achieve greater planned future successful follow up.
I think it depends if the team is behind it or not. For a team it can be equally bad to work on a product where everyone knows that if you could do it all over again, learn from your mistakes, change direction a bit, it would be so much better!
i.e. it hurts working on a product that will never show its full potential - and you know it, even before release