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Now that we had cleared some things up.. what do you think is the Supposely NEXT GEN MMO?

They might find a way to make D3 into some sort of MMO but if not, perhaps Universe of Starcraft really is coming. Could be pretty good.

It will be a StarCraft MMO.

completely new series.

My hope is for a Starcraft MMO. I hope they stay away from Lost Vikings, because they already have the nordic theme down in Ironforge/Dwarves

If it's something completely new, I know it will rock.

Whatever it is, I'm excited!

diablo or starcraft

I would say World of Starcraft, just because it would follow the trend of how they released Wc3 and then WoW.

Ok, first if all, I'm sure just like everyone else, as soon as I saw it I woke my roomates up with screams of joy.

But, If I remember correctly, they called it a "Next-Gen MMO"...what features will consider this an MMO? or did they just say that to throw us off their trail.

Hm.. where did they say that?

no. blizzard doesn't lie. Although i highly doubt that blizz has another game under wraps that would be in far enough progress to announce our even have speculation too it is possible. But i would imagine this is th next gen mmo considering they said the system could support large groups of players.

FYI, the Next Gen MMO project is still Top Secret on the Blizzard job postings page.

People assumed a lot of the job postings for Blizzard's "Top Secret Next-Gen MMO" was simply code for the Diablo III project. A key piece of evidence was them citing that in the job description, Blizzard was the developer of "Diablo I and II", mentioning only the Diablo series.

Now that we have found out (to the best of my knowledge) that Diablo 3 is going to remain on Battle.net and that it is an action-RPG, the speculation begins as to what this Next-Gen MMO is going to be. It makes sense that it isn't Diablo - there are TONS of positions available for their secret project and with Diablo 3 having a lot developed already, I doubt they were able to get that much done with so many job positions available. My guess is a Starcraft MMO that will be announced in 2-3 years' time when significant strides have been made in its development and when Blizzard is ready to unleash it. Diablo III's graphics are better but in no-way are they next-gen, and I dont think D3 is an MMO either.

It's obviously not an MMO. We saw the gameplay video, its still an Action RPG. Just like Diablo 2. Thank god.

They have said it's a "Next-gen MMO" in referring to Diablo 3.

If you think about it, technically, D2 was an mmo.

Isn't an MMO like a server/world with hundreds or thousands of people playing in it at the same time? Because if that's the description then Diablo 3 is not an MMO.

DII was an mmorpg. They just really put an emphasis on rpg in comparison to others.

A next gen-mmo would be a step forward from WoW. D3, while a great game, would be a step backwords because it's not a seamless world and will still run on Battlenet.


Let's stop being idiots about this, D3 is not Blizzards Next Gen MMO in development.

I think a Diablo MMORPG would kick WoW2 or WoS ass. WoS means World of Starcraft

It won't be a Diablo MMO. Sorry but that's just stupid. Come on, Diablo III on Battle.net and then a few years later World of Sanctuary? Counter-intuitive. Its a Starcraft MMO or something entirely new. And at this point I doubt Blizzard is going to stray away from a winning formula. I'd bet a nice sum that its a Starcraft MMO set for release 4-5 years after SC-2 comes out, and the games will co-exist much as Wc3 and WoW do.

http://www.blizzard.com/us/jobopp/

as you see in the job opps page. the jobs needed for diablo 3 are now shown with the diablo 3 logo but there is still a top secret picture next to a few that say MMO