If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy.

Blizzard open to sharing MMO "advice" with Bungie, says Pardo

bungie

Blizzard EVP of design Rob Pardo's told Edge the company is open to sharing insight with Bungie if the developer is making an MMO.

The genre of the first game the developer's making with Activision under a new ten-year deal is unknown.

But with Blizzard under the Activision roof, and if Bungie is making an MMO, Pardo says it's something it could advise on to the developer.

"There are a lot of ifs there. It would have to be a very specific proposal," Pardo said over the weekend at Blizzcon.

"Blizzard are very focussed on our own stuff and I think one of the reasons that we're successful is because we don't get distracted.

"That said, Activision is in the family and Bungie is doing stuff for Activision. If they called us up and wanted some advice or wanted to have a conversation, absolutely, but I do that with a lot of my game developer friends throughout the industry."

Pardo added: "As far as something specific, like if they were going to do an MMO would we somehow do customer service for them? Wow, that's, like, really far out there. I really have no idea - that's a lot of speculation. It's possible, I guess."

Blizzard's next MMO, according to Pardo at Blizzcon, won't get a reveal until 2012 at the earliest.

Sign in and unlock a world of features

Get access to commenting, homepage personalisation, newsletters, and more!

Related topics
About the Author

Johnny Cullen

Contributor

Johnny has experience at a wide range of games media outlets, having written for Eurogamer, Play Magazine, PC Gamer, GameDaily, and more. He worked at VG247 pumping out news at an astonishing rate for several years. More recently, he founded the games website PlayDiaries.

Comments