There’s only nine days left until Blizzard announces what their next game will be, and the guessing game is heating up. That’s to be expected since Blizzard has yet to make an actual bad game. I’ll give them a pass for Starcraft: Ghost and that other Warcraft game since they never came out, but in over 16 years, the resume is as impressive as any other developer with franchises like Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo.
And let’s not forget the classic The Lost Vikings!
Blizzard is expected to announce their plans for a new game on the 19th of May during an event in South Korea, which still has millions of people competing in Starcraft tournaments. I’ve always found that a bit strange since the game is almost ten years old and few games hold my attention for more than a month.
Amongst the rumored titles are Starcraft 2, a Starcraft-based MMO, and a new Diablo game which may or may not be a MMO. With the success of World of Warcraft, I wouldn’t bet against Blizzard releasing another MMO based on the Starcraft universe but since that would make it a competitor for WoW, a second Starcraft RTS is more likely.
Although a new game is most definitely going to be announced, I’d also expect Blizzard to talk about plans for a second World of Warcraft expansion pack or at least some ideas for the larger future content patches sometime in the near future. The Burning Crusade has been a relatively big success so they will probably elaborate on future plans for WoW but perhaps not until Blizzcon on August 3rd.
I am really hoping for a Starcraft MMO. I am not into RTS games AT ALL, but am quite bored of World of Warcraft. I have faith that they would make a REALLY good Starcraft MMO thought. If it’s an RTS I am going to be disappointed :(
Gamespot had an April Fools joke on a Starcraft MMO. It was really well done. :) Being the Starcraft junkie I am, an RTS would be awesome for me, heh.
I’m hoping for a new Diablo, really because if they make a Starcraft MMO…I know I’m going to have to play it and I can’t do casual MMOs. Hardcore is the only way I know how to play those games and that means more 40-hour weeks of raiding…
Hey,
I’ve been reading a few articles on here just trying to figure out PS3 vs. XBOX 360 adn my question is are you guys just a bunch of MMO fiends or do you really do anything else?
Thanks
We play all types of games.. this is the first post related to MMO in the history of this blog…
We play everything. We’re not limited to only one genre of…well, anything.
Been waiting for this forever! We’ve got a great starcraft 2 community building up at http://www.starcraft2forum.org
If anyone wants to come and talk about this great game, please do so! It’s probably the most anticipated game of all time, I mean, we only had to wait 10 years!