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I seriously doubt that. Announcing two major titles at one time will cause there teams to be under tremendous pressure. They would have to cut corners in production and this could lead to a poorly designed, uninteresting game. I'd much rather have them focus on one game now and another when the first is near release. Order of games doesn't matter to me.
It's not that far fetched. Blizzard's development staff grew exponentially once WoW hit it big. They're still firing out regular job postings for a multitude of positions - instead of the same positions over and over again - which means these job positions are being filled. They're a lot larger of a company than they used to be. There is evidence of that when it was reported that they were working on two unannounced projects - this was after the release of WoW (which they have development teams for continually working on releasing new content AND working on The Burning Crusade simultaneously).
The fact of the matter is most gaming companies have more than one project in the works at any one time. My gf works at EA, and apparently they have like 5 or 6 different titles in steady progress. Even Flagship Studios, a newer company with a painfully smaller development crew than Blizzard has two games in the works.
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There. Now we can all go outside and play.
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It's not that far fetched. Blizzard's development staff grew exponentially once WoW hit it big. They're still firing out regular job postings for a multitude of positions - instead of the same positions over and over again - which means these job positions are being filled. They're a lot larger of a company than they used to be. There is evidence of that when it was reported that they were working on two unannounced projects - this was after the release of WoW (which they have development teams for continually working on releasing new content AND working on The Burning Crusade simultaneously).
The fact of the matter is most gaming companies have more than one project in the works at any one time. My gf works at EA, and apparently they have like 5 or 6 different titles in steady progress. Even Flagship Studios, a newer company with a painfully smaller development crew than Blizzard has two games in the works.
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Corrected my own mistake. There goes that theory.
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Hey guys, first time poster here. I was sure Blizzard threw some sort of hidden message in their timeline on their Blizzard.com website. They are enormous fans of head games as their continuous stream of April Fools pranks has shown. Most notably, and most related to this new upcoming title announcement, they did something similar for the unveiling of Starcraft Ghost - only it was more visual. So I've been following this thread as my curiosity became piqued wondering if anyone else had theories about a possible hidden message. And talk about misdirection. The same timeline on a number of websites, including Starcraft2.com, and Diablo3.nl
Everyone is looking for visual signs, but I think this time the clues are in the words. The poster I've quoted above me is on the right track.
Why are some of the sentences in larger font?
On day 1 it's the 3rd line of the Warcraft 2 quote. No such enlargement for Warcraft 1. For the Diablo and Starcraft quotes, it's both on the 2nd line. For Diablo 2, well, just one line, but still large bold text. Either their web designers are incredibly lazy and inconsistant (notice the size of text difference between Diablo 1 and 2, and Starcraft) or they're trying to direct your attention to some hidden subtleties.
I'm no good at word games, but syllables came to mind first.
"Of the tides of darkness" - 6 syllables.
"Is the lord of terror" - 6 syllables
"Stay awhile and listen" - 6 syllables
"And my stare alone would reduce you to ashes" - 12 syllables
Note that so far Starcraft is the only one with more than 6, which is 12. Since Starcraft stands out with 12, let's say the announcement is something specific about Starcraft. The bolded Starcraft quote had 12 syllables, so let's start with that number. The rest had 6, 6 being the consant number. Simple math of 12 divided by 6 is 2. Starcraft 2.
Further supported by the fact that Starcraft was the single largest Blizzard game to sell in Korea. Korea is like the Starcraft capitol of the world. It's a sport there. The announcement is being made in Korea. Hmm.
How's that for conspiracy theory?
There's a few misleading things. First of all, if tomorrow's Warcraft 3 quote doesn't have 6 syllables, there goes that theory. Secondly, I believe it was Gamespot that recently spoke to a Blizzard PR regarding the announcement. And I quote loosely, "everyone will be pleasantly surprised". I don't know how anyone could be surprised about a Starcraft 2 unveiling in Korea, so perhaps there will be a simultaneous Diablo 3 unveiling as well.
Anyway, somebody who's better at word games needs to get cracking on this enigma.