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Blizzard confirms 'Titan' as their new MMO.
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charlequin
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Zzoram said:
It makes more sense to design a new IP from the ground up around the MMO gameplay they want to implement than it does to make some random unrelated game, hope it takes off, and then spin the MMO they really wanted to make off from that.
Zzoram said:
I play WoW decently well on a Mac laptop from March 2006, with sliders set to medium/low. Get about ~20 FPS, which is jarring at first but now I don't notice.
For me, WoW & blizzard win by default. There are no other MMOs that are this playable on my system.
Even more amazingly, SC2 runs on this machine, too. I nearly couldn't believe it.
les papillons sexuels
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jambo said:
considering wow was originally going to be free to play, I think they'll take the opportunity to explore it this time around.
mysteriousmage09
Member
That was before they knew that they would have more subscribers then every other mmo combined.les papillons sexuels said:
There is nothing wrong with a subscription if they do a lot of content updates between expansions and offer a good service constantly upgraded, and Blizzard does do that with WoW. You certainly get your money's worth. For the cost of a movie ticket and popcorn, you can play WoW even 10 hours a month and feel like it was money well spent.
Stahsky
A passionate embrace, a beautiful memory lingers.
Fredescu said:
What does this even mean? Of course they would. Why would any company outright not try and appeal to their entire audience plus a new one?
And subs are coming. F2P is the backdoor plan. They can get away with subscriptions, so they'll do it.
It means that they're not specifically targeting WoW, Starcraft 2, or Diablo 3 players. They've even said they're looking for a "broader audience". This means that the payment habits of WoW players will be irrelevant to their decision as to whether they go with paid subs or not.EvaPlusMinus said:
Gaylord Sweetwood
Member
They will need to overhaul the WoW Graphics Engine if they want the game to continue on. Adding new water textures will not cut it come 2013.
Gaylord Sweetwood said:
I agree, but I don't expect them to do the massively needed overhaul. It looks long in the tooth now, it did for a couple years now. But there will obviously be a large difference in engine quality when Titan does launch compared to what WoW will be (it's been out forever), so they really need to take a hard look at the engine in WoW, especially to have them both co-exist like they're claiming.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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darkpaladinmfc said:
Diablo III and Heart of the Swarm seem to be planned for late 2011, at least one of them is bound to get delayed. Also, Titan and the fifth WoW expansion in the same quarter means it is likely Titan will be veeeery different to WoW.
WoW mobile?
charlequin
Banned
Manos: The Hans of Fate said:
The mobile auction house app slash $3 paid service.
Then, 2 wow expansions on the same year? That doesn't sound right no?
Maybe the first one is a complete redo of the world again to update outlands and northrend up to date with the cataclysm? And the second a real expansion?
I guess they only got the titans left as an arch enemy for the game as I can't point any other enemies that can up deathwind destroying all azeroth :lol
Edit, delete that, it's wow movie on the same year, not an expansion.
Maybe the first one is a complete redo of the world again to update outlands and northrend up to date with the cataclysm? And the second a real expansion?
I guess they only got the titans left as an arch enemy for the game as I can't point any other enemies that can up deathwind destroying all azeroth :lol
Edit, delete that, it's wow movie on the same year, not an expansion.
Stahsky
A passionate embrace, a beautiful memory lingers.
Fredescu said:
Broader does not equal not aiming for the blizzard audience. One cannot assume new payment options simply because they are looking for a broader group.
Anyways, we've got what, three bits of info on this? That it's a new IP, has a broader audience goal, and has a codename. It's a shame we won't see anything on this for a long time now.
UnluckyKate
Member
Give me more Starcraft, Blizzard !
TAKE MY MONEY !
I couldn't care less about Diablo/World of/Warcraft
TAKE MY MONEY !
I couldn't care less about Diablo/World of/Warcraft
Wait a moment... WOW movie?...darkpaladinmfc said:
Diablo III and Heart of the Swarm seem to be planned for late 2011, at least one of them is bound to get delayed. Also, Titan and the fifth WoW expansion in the same quarter means it is likely Titan will be veeeery different to WoW.
If that's being done by their internal CG team then HELL TO THE FUCKING YEAH!
I was just covering my back for an embarrassing post in retrospect. I was surprised someone who would be interested in a WoW movie wouldn't have also heard they were making one if that makes sense.Luigiv said:
They're been working on it for a while. It's a serious budget major production, I wouldn't give up hope just yet, they're taking is mad serious.
zombieshavebrains
I have not used cocaine
wwm0nkey said:
So its a Warcraft III movie...
And Blizzard has a lot of the genres nailed. Sci-fi=Starcraft. High fantasy=Warcraft. Dark almost medieval=Diablo. What genre can Titan be?
plagiarize
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they've seen that most people only play one MMO at a time. if they aim Titan at their WoW audience they just self cannibalise. if they aim it at people that aren't playing WoW, then they grow their audience with less self cannibalisation.EvaPlusMinus said:
the problem with MMO FPS is demonstrating what you get for your extra money. FPS have free to play mid scale games with stat tracking etc. RPGs didn't have that when the MMO thing started.
planetside was a good game, but it failed.
RPGs aren't as much about individual egos. you often have a team of characters. people that like them often come from a D+D background and are used to not being THE hero.
that's a big problem with MMO and the FPS crowd, and i say this as someone that loves FPS and not MMOs. FPS games are often called 'ego' shooters for a reason. people that play them (even online) all want to be 'THE' guy. the guy that wins. the guy that saves the universe, and how do you pull that off in an MMO?
plagiarize
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it could be planetside, but you have to do something to appeal to the FPS crowd.Draft said:
still with levelling for equipment etc now something even mainstream FPS players are used to, perhaps people would be more open to an MMOFPS now than they were in 2003... but i just don't think that FPS players are on average hardcore enough to want to pay a monthly sub.
it's always been a much more casual genre.
for this reason alone, when blizz says Titan is a "casual" MMO, i think they really mean it. i think blizz's strategy will be to make it so that Titan is an MMO you can play while also still playing your "main mmo", which of course Blizz will hope is WoW.plagiarize said:
i could see Titan being as casual as, i dunno... Team Fortress 2. The sort of game you can jump in and out of and still get heaps of entertainment in those short bursts.
it's also for this reason that i suspect Titan will be F2P. blizz are not going to expect people to pay a subcription fee for WoW and Titan.
but there's an alternative i've imagined. I could see Blizz doing something a little different. Perhaps they will roll the subscriptions fees for their MMOs into one payment and charge a subscription fee for the Battle.net service instead of each game individually. The battle.net subscription can include WoW time and Titan time.
So, for example, lets say you've just bought your first Blizz game, Diablo III. You create a battle.net account to play D3 and it costs you nothing to do so, other than the price of the game itself. Eventually Titan comes out and you buy that, your second blizz game. Now you pay $14.99 a month on your battle.net service to play Titan. If you ever cancel the subscription, battle.net is free again but you can't play Titan until you resubscribe. Then you decide to see what all the fuss was about with WoW all those years ago. You buy WoW and once again pay $14.99 a month on your battle.net account to play WoW. Eventually you decide you want to play WoW and Titan, so you reactive the Titan subscription. Now you pay $22.99 a month, which allows you to play both WoW and Titan, but you're getting the second MMO at half-price subscription (only paying $8 more per month for it). Cancel either one of the MMOs and it drops back down to $14.99 a month.
Perhaps in the future blizz releases a third MMO and you want to play all three. With all three MMOs activated the price of the battle.net subscription goes up to $26.99 (you're only paying $4 more per month for this new MMO). After a few months you're completely burnt out on Blizz's MMOs and you decide to cancel ALL subscriptions. The cost of your battle.net service drops to $0 per month again and you decide to pickup the new Diablo expansion pack, which has no subscription fee.
it's a kind of scaling subscription model for multiple MMOs, with each new MMO added to your subscription getting cheaper. Customers aren't paying through the nose for subscriptions, blizzard gets more money. everyone is happy.