World of Starcraft announcment upcomming?

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » May 6, 2007, 1:19 pm

That's the rumor on the street. Thoughts?

They're making a Warhammer MMORPG and also a Warhammer 40k one as well. Two completelty different audiances for those 2 generes.

Starcraft and Warcraft would have more crossover IMO. As long as they did a multi-pass, single payment system (like sony uses) then it wouldn't be so bad.

Kwonryu DragonFist · Post by **Kwonryu DragonFist** » May 6, 2007, 1:23 pm

The Warhammer MMORPG is called Warhammer Online : The Reckoning yes?

A WH40K MMORPG would be nice!

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » May 6, 2007, 1:35 pm

Kwonryu DragonFist wrote:The Warhammer MMORPG is called Warhammer Online : The Reckoning yes?

A WH40K MMORPG would be nice!

Relic is doing the 40k version. They easily did the best 40k translation to date. I have high hopes for the MMORPG.

Perhaps Blizzard wants a piece of that sci fi MMO pie?

Kwonryu DragonFist · Post by **Kwonryu DragonFist** » May 6, 2007, 1:42 pm

Starcraft would be interesting though, being able to play as Human or Protoss, since i don't think you could play the Zerg, they're prolly the main villains

We will prolly see some new mutations of zerg in the MMORPG, if/when it's released.

Protoss Melee warrior or Terran Marine with ranged burstrifle VS Teh Zerg!

noel · Post by **noel** » May 6, 2007, 3:57 pm

My thoughts: That's been the rumor on the streets for like 3+ years and it would be about time. Blizzard has probably learned all they need to know bout the infrastructure so the hard part would likely be races/classes/worlds/encounters/art/balance.

Anarchy online was the closest thing to a meaningful sci-fi MMOG there's been. SWG was stupid. I'll be watching any Starcraft MMOG development very closely, and I'll look forward to beta testing it to learn more about it.

Very simply. Blizzard makes good games.

archeiron · Post by **archeiron** » May 6, 2007, 8:42 pm

noel wrote:My thoughts: That's been the rumor on the streets for like 3+ years and it would be about time. Blizzard has probably learned all they need to know bout the infrastructure so the hard part would likely be races/classes/worlds/encounters/art/balance.

Anarchy online was the closest thing to a meaningful sci-fi MMOG there's been. SWG was stupid. I'll be watching any Starcraft MMOG development very closely, and I'll look forward to beta testing it to learn more about it.

Very simply. Blizzard makes good games.

Eve Online

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » May 6, 2007, 9:16 pm

archeiron wrote:
noel wrote:My thoughts: That's been the rumor on the streets for like 3+ years and it would be about time. Blizzard has probably learned all they need to know bout the infrastructure so the hard part would likely be races/classes/worlds/encounters/art/balance.

Anarchy online was the closest thing to a meaningful sci-fi MMOG there's been. SWG was stupid. I'll be watching any Starcraft MMOG development very closely, and I'll look forward to beta testing it to learn more about it.

Very simply. Blizzard makes good games.
Eve Online

am i the only one who wants a sci mmo where i'm not stuck in a ship 100% of the time?

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » May 6, 2007, 9:56 pm

I don't think they're going to be making a Starcraft MMO anytime soon. Personally I want to hear more of what Bioware Austin is up to.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » May 7, 2007, 12:19 am

Im sure they have one in development for when people get sick of WoW. It certainly won't be out for another 4-5 years though.

Fortunately in 4-5 years the computer I have now will probably be able to run it maxed out as blizzard boldly strides into 2002 technology.

Tegellan · Post by **Tegellan** » May 7, 2007, 4:01 am

I want to play a ghost!

noel · Post by **noel** » May 7, 2007, 9:47 am

Eve is great. I played Eve. I liked Eve. Eve is the definition of a successful niche MMOG market.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » May 7, 2007, 11:11 am

I wouldn't be surprised of Blizzard put out Starcraft 2 first to get the story and the races in place for WoStarcraft like they did with Warcraft 3.

Introduce a new race or two to add to the mix (cause only Humans and Protoss doesn't make for a very deep MMOG) and then reap in the massive profits on both games.

Kwonryu DragonFist · Post by **Kwonryu DragonFist** » May 7, 2007, 12:58 pm

Well with just Humans and Protoss you could have at least six classes!

Terran Marine
Terran Firebat/Tank/Ed-209driver
Terran Ghost
Protos Warrior
Protoss Templar
Protoss healer-fella,Cleric and whatnot ;D