Blizzard to ONLY make MMOG's

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Stunning news if this is true...

Vivendi Universal Games gave a presentation to Wall Street today. Too much to report on everything said, but the big one was:

"All Blizzard franchises will become MMOGs."

All. They claim they have a model now to develop an MMOG in 3 years for $50 million. WoW cost 50 million euros and took 4 1/2 years.

They have bifurcated the MMOG market into two parts: long session games (more than two hours per session) and short session games (less than two hour sessions.) They will also be rolling out a bunch of short session games under the Sierra Online brand. An example is FreeStyle, a pick-up basketball online game scheduled for 2007 release. No details on pricing model for the short session games.

A MMOG with play like Diablo may be cool if done right. With most of the original teams gone though, I imagine it will have a different feel to it. Still not sure if I want to pay a monthly fee for it either.
 
Sigh, I knew this would happen... MMOs simply make too much money for people like them to ignore. And thus begins the decline of Blizzard...
 
Karafias said:
Sigh, I knew this would happen... MMOs simply make too much money for people like them to ignore. And thus begins the decline of Blizzard...
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...if its true, but yes a sad day for blizzard fans. Even though I have some regret the 3 months I wasted with WOW (e-crack)....I am such a huge diablo fan I would probably go for WOD or even WOS for that matter.
 
What idiots...I hope that they out of some spontaneous incident go completely bankrupt. Screw 'em.
 
Boooo!

I refuse to pay a monthly subscription for gaming.

NO mmo has ever broke the mold enough to warrant a monthly fee (I haven't play WoW, but I can claim with fair certainty that it would be the "same" as every other mmo in that regard)
 
rfwinters77 said:
Boooo!

I refuse to pay a monthly subscription for gaming.

NO mmo has ever broke the mold enough to warrant a monthly fee (I haven't play WoW, but I can claim with fair certainty that it would be the "same" as every other mmo in that regard)
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I dont care if WOW is the next coming of Jesus, or the equivalent of a shot of heroin at boot up, I am never paying a monthly fee for my games. Ever.
 
ValeX said:
Geesh you guys don't get so worked up, its not like they ever planned on making a SC2 or Diablo 3 anyways...don't toss in the towel until you see what they can do...
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Actually D3 was def in the works. They only leak was the score was being produced, this was a year back.
 
You can't really blame them if its true, they are making retarded money out of WoW right now. After playing wow for a while after release (quit about a month ago) I really can't see playing another blizzard based MMO, their content updates are slow, and the stuff they actually do manage to get in really isnt enough to keep you interested for long periods of time.
 
pakotlar said:
I am never paying a monthly fee for my games. Ever.
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Why? You will never manage to get the same amount of entertainment/fun for $15/mo doing anything else. 2x movies or a month of gaming...
 
Their basketball mmo example sounds terrible. I'll level up to Michael Jordan status?

It'll be tough to beat WoW. I wonder how they will top themselves.

I can see two main genres: WoW like & Sims like.

Unless they slow the support for WoW (which would be a bad move), what's the point of moving to a new MMO unless it is better? I don't think people would want to pay for two subscriptions for two games.
 
This will kill the company in the long run. Sadly, I can't say they don't deserve it. This isn't the Blizzard of 1998.
 
it says all the franchises will become MMOG's, but it doesn't say they're moving to just that format. I'm sure we'll still see single player titles coming from Blizzard, but they won't be anywhere near the scope of Diablo 2 or Starcraft. It's just a company expanding a section of it's operations in order to boost profit. WoW has been such a financial success for them, it makes sense. Profit is not an ugly word.
 
So long RTS :(
Wonder who will step up to the plate to take the RTS games.
 
As far as I am concern the Blizzard I knew and loved died when their core group of guys left a long time ago.
 
Most MMOGs aren't the success of WoW. I think they'll make single player and RTS still, just means a longer wait unforts.
 
People need to learn how to read, It does not state that Blizzard will only make MMORPGs but rather that all their franchises will get an MMO in time. Nowhere does it say that they will only develop MMOs so please stop aiding in the spread of false information...

Some people need to go back to school...

Diablo 3 is a given, aswell as Starcraft 2. The originals sold way to well to ignore it.
 
I cant believe how many of you beleive every little thing you read.

Its on the interweb it must be true!.
 
|MaguS| said:
Diablo 3 is a given, aswell as Starcraft 2. The originals sold way to well to ignore it.
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I also bet that there will be another standard warcraft game. They're not gonna spread them selves out with a bunch off MMO's it would be a waste of money, most people don't subscribe to more than 1 or 2 MMO's at a time, there simply ins't enough time to play them. They're not going to pull players from a 50% mmo market share game, they currently OWN the mmo market. They would be mainly pulling players from their own game, and that would be pointless and a waste of money.

I just love how people report stuff that isn't true. Blizzard is working on a game, but they're being very quiet about, I almost bet its Diablo 3. Stop hating on blizzard for nothing, don't be jealous.
 
That's not what they said at all. If you read it carefully, it just says that they will be making an MMO based off of each of their franchises. It doesn't mean that they won't make other genres too.
 
pakotlar said:
I dont care if WOW is the next coming of Jesus, or the equivalent of a shot of heroin at boot up, I am never paying a monthly fee for my games. Ever.
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Then get left in the dust ...
 
theNoid said:
Then get left in the dust ...
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I agree. Considering the entertainment value per dollar for a monthly fee, I don't see the problem. 15 a month for a game I'd play consistently, and it'd be updated and added to on a regular basis and have excellent replay value, well, that's worth it to me.

I'll go to one less craptastic film that month and call it even.
 
rfwinters77 said:
Boooo!

I refuse to pay a monthly subscription for gaming.

NO mmo has ever broke the mold enough to warrant a monthly fee (I haven't play WoW, but I can claim with fair certainty that it would be the "same" as every other mmo in that regard)
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Exactly

i already paid $50 for your game
i am already aying $30+ for an internet connection and now you want me to pay you MORE money to play online AND yuou wont even let me run my own personal server for friends to connect to to be sure you get my money

go F yourself's!
 
MMO's should be freely downloadable, only pay if you want the actuall box/manual/DVD. Then the $15 a month wouldn't seem like a big deal and a lot more people would bite. I just got two copies of FFXI for only $20, granted its an old game but I would not pay more than $20 for a game with a $15 monthly fee, thats ridiculous.
 
pakotlar said:
I dont care if WOW is the next coming of Jesus, or the equivalent of a shot of heroin at boot up, I am never paying a monthly fee for my games. Ever.
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don't worry you're not missing much but one of the most retarded player-bases i've ever seen.
 
I dont understand why people are not willing to pay a monthly fee. Look at it in terms of the money you are spending to the gameplay time. Having added up all the time played and the money i have spent i am paying less than 25 cents and hour to play, and that is what i consider casual play time of 10-20 hours a week sometimes mroe sometimes less.

If i go buy a book and read it it cost more per hour, movies, dinner, ha night at bar can run me 10 dollars or more an hour.

Doesnt make sense to me why you would not pay to play for a game when it is so cheap on comparison to other entertianment. This of course is dependent o you enjoying the game :D


barren chat is the deepest pit of hell
 
CodeX said:
MMO's should be freely downloadable, only pay if you want the actuall box/manual/DVD. Then the $15 a month wouldn't seem like a big deal and a lot more people would bite. I just got two copies of FFXI for only $20, granted its an old game but I would not pay more than $20 for a game with a $15 monthly fee, thats ridiculous.
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I believe thats how Koreans run their MMORPG business.
 
Seelenlos said:
I dont understand why people are not willing to pay a monthly fee. Look at it in terms of the money you are spending to the gameplay time. Having added up all the time played and the money i have spent i am paying less than 25 cents and hour to play, and that is what i consider casual play time of 10-20 hours a week sometimes mroe sometimes less.
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Agreed. WoW is my first MMOG and my first to ever pay a monthly fee. I used to snub my nose like some others in this thread about "idiots" that pay to play. However, I now look at it like this.. 14 a month? thats about 50 cents a day. that is the cost of 1 coke. or 14/month is the cost of maybe 2 drinks on a saturday night of the 8 i go through. This is like pennies for a huge enjoyment. In terms of cost/benefit, this is probably the best ratio.
 
I agree with those who say that Blizzard would never go MMOG-only. Diablo 2 sold over a million copies in just its first two weeks (with millions more after that), and Diablo 3 with single-player and "small-scale" multiplayer modes will sell copies in the millions.

The idea that they would toss non-MMO games aside just because their MMO product makes a lot of money would be like Coca-Cola tossing Sprite aside because they sell more Coke.
 
MrGuvernment said:
Exactly

i already paid $50 for your game
i am already aying $30+ for an internet connection and now you want me to pay you MORE money to play online AND yuou wont even let me run my own personal server for friends to connect to to be sure you get my money

go F yourself's!
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Well, that's the thing.. You're paying that 15/mo for them to run those servers(as well as all the updates, etc) You can play on a private server, although it really takes alot of fun out of it. few thousand people>few hundred. Go play GW, and then go play WoW, and tell me that $15/mo isn't worth it.(I'm not bashing GW really, I have over 200hours into it).
 
All the talented people at Blizzard left anyways.

WoW high end content sucks ass, or any MMO for that matter. Lets get 40 people to do a 5 hour instance, and only 5% of the people will get any items!!!! woohoo!!! Main reason why I quit WoW. If most of the people in the raid didn't get shafted it would be at least decent. I was in a raiding guild for 9 months and I didn't get a single item because I couldn't live my life in the game. The amount of DKP the higher ups had was completely rediculous, any normal person could not play that much.

I'm willing to pay a monthly fee, but damn raiding in WoW is one of the worst things to come to gaming. Unless of course you like to waste time like that, then I just feel sorry for you.

Don't get me wrong, WoW is a GREAT game. But once you hit 60 and move on to the big raids its all downhill from there.

Goodbye Blizzard, it was nice knowin ya.
 
Bop said:
All the talented people at Blizzard left anyways.
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I love when people say that. Thats obviously far from the truth, just become some really talented people left, doesn't mean more talented people didn't come in. Do you really think that theres this defined group of talent out there, and that there cannot be anyone more than that group defined? YOU nor ANYONE can't argue that there isn't any talent at blizzard. They currently have the most sucessful MMORPG ever created, they have over 6 million people playing @ over 50% of the market share, 50%!!! People won't buy a crappy product, its obvious that WoW is a great game, and continues to be a great game almost 2 years after the game released.

Bop said:
WoW high end content sucks ass, or any MMO for that matter. Lets get 40 people to do a 5 hour instance, and only 5% of the people will get any items!!!! woohoo!!! Main reason why I quit WoW. If most of the people in the raid didn't get shafted it would be at least decent. I was in a raiding guild for 9 months and I didn't get a single item because I couldn't live my life in the game. The amount of DKP the higher ups had was completely rediculous, any normal person could not play that much.
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You let one crappy raiding guild ruin it for you, good for you.

Bop said:
I'm willing to pay a monthly fee, but damn raiding in WoW is one of the worst things to come to gaming. Unless of course you like to waste time like that, then I just feel sorry for you.
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Don't feel sorry for me, or anyone for that matter. People can make their own dicisions about how to spend their time.

Bop said:
Don't get me wrong, WoW is a GREAT game. But once you hit 60 and move on to the big raids its all downhill from there.
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I also love when a disclaimer like this is posted. You pretty much trashed the game and the company, but you think the game is great? Wow I feel I'm watching John Kerry, pick your stand, and stick with it.

Bop said:
Goodbye Blizzard, it was nice knowin ya.
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They're not going anywhere, anytime soon.

And BTW that source that this "info" came from isn't very reliable.
 
Karafias said:
Sigh, I knew this would happen... MMOs simply make too much money for people like them to ignore. And thus begins the decline of Civilization...
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Fixed.

edit: Oh, and yeah, they said that all the titles would have a MMOG associated, not that all games they offered would be MMOG. Logic 101 boys.
 
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