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[.la1n]

2016 is gonna be a fantastic year.

Old joke is old.

Despite what the PC elitist feel, it would be beneficial to Blizzard and Activision to expand their market to consoles where appropriate. Starcraft II CAN be ported to, if nothing else, the PS3 simply because of keyboard/mouse support. I grew up on Atari but PC gaming was my life from there after, I certaintly have no problem and have already bought the game for my PC but they are missing a large market here.

I am truly starting to feel like Blizzard itself is maintained by PC elitist despite past efforts on consoles that we all need to forget. I don't want to have that mindset because they are a top tier developer, one that played a large part in my gaming childhood but I really can't think of another explanation with the vast amount of resources / money they have.

edit: bravo for Valve waking up and realizing that perhaps alienating fanbases isn't in their best interest. Though it certaintly feels a little forced everytime Gabe speaks on the subject.

 

[HK-47]

That was before they knew that they would have more subscribers then every other mmo combined.

They will try as hard as possible to avoid competing with their own game. F2P is the easier way of doing this and they dont have any game in that vein yet. Its another section of the market for them to exploit. Asking people to pay for two subs plus the cost of the games themselves is pushing it. Most wont do both and people who hate subs wont do either. They will go play DDO or LotRO or Vindictus or maybe even a browser mmo like Runescape instead.

 

[HK-47]

Hmm.

Blizz might be victims of their own success here. WoW was Everquest distilled and refined, dare I say, perfected. What will be Blizzard's "inspiration" for Titan? WoW killed the MMO market.

The Koreans and the f2p market laugh at this assertion.

 

[Painraze]

i wouldn't worry too much about Blizzard getting fans to play both MMOs. I'm sure there will be plenty of cross game rewards / incentives to play both.

 

[hamchan]

I can say with confidence I'll end up playing both MMOs.

 

[Naked Snake]

I'd love to see an FPS MMO. Especially if it was sci-fi themed.

I never played an MMO, but that sounds hot.

 

[The Lamonster]

I never played an MMO, but that sounds hot.

Sure does. I'd like my character to have something equivalent to an X-Wing - a personal starship equipped with weapons and the ability for hyperspace travel.

You could travel from planet to planet, some populated and some barren, kind of like Mass Effect except in MMO form.

 

[Scrow]

patooey to having last post on a previous page...

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they've seen that most people only play one MMO at a time.

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.

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.

 

[glaurung]

Titan is either going to be Farmville or something so cool it will make your head explode every time you get a level.

 

[The Lamonster]

Titan is either going to be Farmville or something so cool it will make your head explode every time you get a level.

I'm going to be pissed if it's a Facebook "MMO"

 

[charlequin]

Blizz might be victims of their own success here. WoW was Everquest distilled and refined, dare I say, perfected. What will be Blizzard's "inspiration" for Titan? WoW killed the MMO market.

Well, that's why it's a sci-fi game, not a Diku clone, and (if speculations are correct) will use some F2P model instead of subscriptions. I don't think there's any guarantee that lightning will strike twice, but if I was at Blizzard and wanted to try to make a second successful MMO, my first plan would be to make every single thing about it different from WOW in every way. :lol

 

[aktham]

What? Isn't that factually false, just from Blizzard's design standpoint (ie, accessible to a massive amount of population)?

Don't worry about him. He's a troll who thinks WoW is teh BEZT gr4fix!. Point is WoW looked outdated at launch vs console games and it looks outdated today by 2010 console games.

 

[Yoshichan]

Don't worry about him. He's a troll who thinks WoW is teh BEZT gr4fix!. Point is WoW looked outdated at launch vs console games and it looks outdated today by 2010 console games.

What the flying fuck is wrong with you, do you have problems? You bumped the thread for that? If you're that obsessed with me, PM me. Jesus holy Christ.

 

[btkadams]

This is exactly what Blizzard should NOT be concentrating on.

Their trio is something you do not want to fuck with. Just leave it alone, Blizzard.

if they make a more futuristic mmo, i'd be down. i have some weird issue with games that are like old and medieval (i know,i'm crazy) so i could never get into wow.

 

[Brapscallion]

Rock & Roll racing mmo :lol

Coupled with Blackhawk-style raids.

Blizzard, new IP on a console please.

 

[DonasaurusRex]

There is no way this is another 15 dollar a month WoW style MMORPG. No reason to make such a thing when they can keep WoW going for 10 more years.

While they are running out of fan favs to kill i must say i agree, the only thing gonna knock off WoW is a bunch of excellent options to draw players away.

 

[Scrow]

Coupled with Blackhawk-style raids.

Blizzard, new IP on a console please.

do you mean blackthorne?