The Unannounced MMO

In a recent news cast at Shack News, it's been absolutely confirmed that the new, unannounced MMO in development by the World of Warcraft team is not in any way related to any of the current three Blizzard franchises:

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The unannounced MMO in development by World of Warcraft creative studio Blizzard will not be based on one of its established franchises, a representative iterated today.
"We've already stated it'll be a brand new franchise, which means the lore, art, and game play are being developed entirely from scratch," said Blizzard community manager Zarhym on the World of Warcraft forums, in a post noticed by Worldofwar.net

Zerhym referred to the new MMO as a "shell of a game thus far." Blizzard has previously said that the title is being developed using the World of Warcraft engine for testing purposes.

"It's an overwhelming process, but a process through which we excel," added Zerhym. "Our track record supports this."

So, for any of you who were hoping for World of Sanctuary (the pet name we've all given to a hypothetical MMO installment in the Diablo series), this won't be it.

While not particularly Diablo-related, it is in Blizzard's realm. I'm curious to see what will come out of this MMO- if it will be a reliving of WoW or something new and fresh. I wouldn't put it past Blizzard to make good on this opportunity for an MMO with better graphics, better questing, and just about anything else.

They've also explicitly stated some things that they are going to be working on with the new project- particularly the lore of whatever game this might be, artwork, and gameplay. It will be interesting to see how they are going to redo the age-old MMO gameplay style.

Thoughts?

(This was a tip-off from milanv, if anyone wants to pay him a rep point or two for the find

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Magistrate
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Posted May 15, 2009
It would be very typical and cookie-cutter as far as apocalyptic settings go, yes. It would be interesting, though, since they haven't done it before. If they did it right and learned from Flagship Studio's mistakes and gathered the collective successes of others in the genre (both as a game genre and a story setting genre), that is.

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Posted May 15, 2009
blizzard could do like sony did and release a free to play mmo. but i really hope if they did they don't do like Flagship Studios did in offer life time membership. that sunk the game company do to no new income.

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Posted May 15, 2009
What are some settings unexplored by Blizzard? They don't have anything set in a comparably-modern time period, so I like the idea of painting a picture of the 2030s or 40s.

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Posted May 22, 2009
i think whatever they make could turn out fine as long as they dont have killing low lvls before they can lvl

you should only get to fight ppl within 10 lvls of you unless they hit you =3

and add spell armor of some sort so magic arent cheap one shots lol

though if ya said something modern then i think they could have guns and stuff in an mmo

with bombs and rockets and all sorts of fun stuff xD

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Posted May 25, 2009
The game better start with "A"
I noticed on the Blizzard store site where you choose to shop by the 3 "universes", the 3 games/universes start with W, S and D.
So make it start with a and we have the typical gaming controls W A S D.

lol thats my main thought, and it better be epic and kick-ass.

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Posted Jun 28, 2009
Sooo, all we know is that it doesnt have anything to do with the previous genres(starcraft, warcraft, diablo, lost vikings) as they said.

The remaining possible themes are--- Steampunk, Real life(sims etc) , matrix, space related, some kind of fps mmo(past, present or future)...

I'd like to see some of your guys's ideas.

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Posted Jun 29, 2009
Quote from "africa" »
http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/gallery.php?artist=drawgoon
Peter Lee's gallery

Watch ~20 first concept arts under category "Personal". Could those concept arts be from the new mmo? Those are not under category "starcraft" like other starcraft concept arts are and the shots dont look starcraftish except those starships look like protos ships.

http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/User:Hawki/Samoengy

Two things.
One: I hate you africa, I've been stuck reading the Starcraft Wiki for 6 hours because of you!
Two: If this MMO is unannounced, how do people know about it?

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Posted Jun 30, 2009
I don't know what theme they will choose.

But I did arrive at the following theory:

Lots of people play WoW. Lots of people have quit WoW. Blizzard logs complaints/comments when you close your WoW account - they even include a nifty drop down with some of the more popular topics to help ease the player into providing feedback.

So what do they do with all of this information? A veritable library of complaints and whatnot against WoW's design.

Here's what they do.

They sit down with some key development personel at a giant table, order some sushi, and read through this information. And then they put their heads together to create a brand new MMO that recaptures the audience that they lost (those who quit WoW)

This way, they're not competing with their current MMO, and they get some more monthly fees which are currently lost with people not happy with WoW.

Genius.

One thing I'm willing to bet on, their new MMO will be more action-oriented than WoW, and will be more than press 1, 2, 2, 2, 3. It may also deviate from the heal/tank/dps make-up for groups.

We'll see.

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Posted Jun 30, 2009
since they have a fantasy game (WoW,WarCraft), a dark fantasy (Diablo), and a Sci Fi (StarCraft) the main thing i can think of is a more modern setting. its a long shot if i'm right but i'm thinking a war base game like MAG the new MMORPG for PS3.

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Posted Jun 30, 2009
i wonder what kinda of style of game it will be.

we have a mmo, rpg, and a rts.

maybe a first person shooter

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