Fri, Aug 06, 2010 | 12:23 BST
Secret Blizzard MMO is new IP, says Kotick
Thought a StarCraft or Diablo MMO was coming? Consider that thought killed.
Activision boss Bobby Kotick said during the company’s Q1 financial conference call last night that Blizzard’s next MMO will be a new IP.
The project is one of two which will receive an “enormous investment” from the company: the other being Bungie’s next “universe”.
“I think what we’ve been able to do is elevate the level of innovation in products beyond what we’ve been ever able to do before. We’ve talked a lot about the seven different pillars of success that we expect over the course of the next few years,” said Kotick.
“And remember, we have two enormous investments: one in Bungie and the other in another project at Blizzard that we haven’t given a lot of visibility to. Those are going to be entirely new intellectual properties.”
He added: “But with the recognition that the way to build them is take long amounts of time, lots of capable talent, an enormous amount of capital and you have to have a real road-map for innovation and creativity.
“And I think that those are going to be two very good examples from the ground up original ideas.”
Very little is known on the MMO, but Kotick said back in September of last year it would have “a little more broad appeal”, while WoW lead designer Tom Chilton told VG247 back in June it would have to be “easy to learn, hard to master” for the player.
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#51
AHA-Lambda
06/08/10, 11:48 pm
“Well it’s a spec ops-centric game with a multiplayer focus :p”
lol this is very true
“But it’s nice to see one of you guys actually argueing his case in a sensible way. Much respect.”
And the same to yourself. See the internet aint all that bad, people can get along even in arguments….once in a blue moon anyway
#52
LOLshock94
07/08/10, 12:50 am
Kotick not only smells of bullshit but he talks bullshit call of duty has good campaign but MP is standered like most games and spec ops is good end of
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OlderGamer
07/08/10, 2:00 pm
Steph, I know it isn’t exactly what your looking for, but EQII is going Free to Play.
I was going to go over to LOTRO untill I downloade the client, I just couldn’t handle the jumpieness of char movement. I don’t have a super/mega PC. But I can run wow/EQII/Warhammer with most everything turned on and up. LOTRO won’t run smooth for me no matter what I did.
So I am going to go play EQII.
I alrady have the Alpha client of the F2P. Alot of stuff if listed as “purchaseable” but the prices are reasonable(better then paying a full 15usd/month). And the game is just a better experience, imo, then most other MMOs.
I even like the char development better then WoW.
Speaking of WOW, I am at that magical point, again, where one of my toon is level 80, 2700ish GS, can get into everything and anything in the game, yet have to deal with elitest nerdragers over a few points of GS because of a Gem/Enchant choice. A few days ago, I got removed from a raid(before it got started) because I was 30gs less then what the leader wanted. I already had the in game achievement. Why was I removed? The leaders friend was also a pally. I have becomes so tired of the wow end game formula.
Run raids to get better gear to run better raids in the qst of obtaining even better gear. It has gotten old after few go rounds at 80. Not looking forward to the expac at all, five more levels and its the same thing all over again.
I think it is just a MMORPG problem these days. I spent five years playing Meridian59, never once raided anything(except an eminies guild hall), there was very little in the game that could be considered gear, no quest giving NPCs with glowy icons over their heads, nothing. That game was my fav all time MMORPG.
What did it have? Run and Gun PvP, guild on guild fighting, and random PKing. Nothing todays comes close. *sniff – sniff.
Oh well long post shortend, might wanna give EQII a go – it won’t cost you anything, and you can start playing in a few a couple of mins(the game downloads while you play). It ain’t bad and is worth a look.
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