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Interesting timing for this announcement. ATVI Investor calls occur every 90 days. This announcement occurs 45 days after the last investor call... and 45 days before the upcoming call
I suspect Kotick, Morhaime et al don't want to field questions about cancelling a game that was worked on for 5+ years.. with whispers as Blizzard's replacement for WoW.
On September 25 2014 02:10 screamingpalm wrote:Show nested quote +On September 24 2014 11:01 JimmyJRaynor wrote: Blizzard is the Led Zeppelin of rock bands... they only release something when they damned well feel it is right.
Very few rock bands and game studios have that autonomy and well....Blizzard has earned it.
Have to disagree, doesn't really fit at all. Maybe more like Boston, or even more accurately, Miley Cyrus etc. That raw, pure, unadulterated sound of Zeppelin is more like the creativity and innovation of small indie studios, where Blizzard was always finely autotuned and refined for mass consumption. :D
Boston lol. Mass consumption? Zeppelin is all about mass consumption... #3 all time.. where is Boston and Cyrus? and Zeppelin was only together for 10 years... U2 has been around since before the space shuttle was invented.
The Zeppelin/Blizzard analogy Warning: Way Off Topic + Show Spoiler + Zeppelin has a cult like following. Blizzard's games have a cult-like following. Blizzard releases games whenever they feel like it... Led Zeppelin made albums whenever they felt like it.
Publisher tells Zeppelin to make 4 minute songs to fit in with the radio commercial cycle...Zeppelin makes Stairway To Heaven. Zeppelin is given more autonomy than any rock band on any record label. Blizzard has so much autonomy they can take 2.5 years to make an expansion pack. Bungie is pumping out expansion packs like your favourite anonymous 70s rock band pumps out 4 minute songs on albums released 12 months to the day.
Led Zeppelin is #3 all time in sales...Blizzard products sell well.
John Bonham dies.. do they replace him? no, they disband.... that's "cancelling the game" taken to the n-th degree. Blizzard cancels games after many years in development for a reason no more concrete than "we just didn't like it".
There is your Zeppelin/Blizzard analogy sir.
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On September 25 2014 02:10 screamingpalm wrote:Show nested quote +On September 24 2014 11:01 JimmyJRaynor wrote: Blizzard is the Led Zeppelin of rock bands... they only release something when they damned well feel it is right.
Very few rock bands and game studios have that autonomy and well....Blizzard has earned it.
Have to disagree, doesn't really fit at all. Maybe more like Boston, or even more accurately, Miley Cyrus etc. That raw, pure, unadulterated sound of Zeppelin is more like the creativity and innovation of small indie studios, where Blizzard was always finely autotuned and refined for mass consumption. :D
lol, you haven't been around for long have you? Blizzard has ALWAYS been known for Soon™
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The cancellation of Titan, while somewhat unfortunate, has likely saved me dozens of hours that would have otherwise been spent arguing and trashing it's likely business model.
Warcraft 4 now.
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On September 26 2014 00:40 Brindled wrote:
lol, you haven't been around for long have you? Blizzard has ALWAYS been known for Soon™
Yeah sort of why I they remind me more of Boston than Zep I guess (Scholz a lot like Morhaime). :D JimmyJ makes fair points though, certainly comparing success and autonomy etc.
+ Show Spoiler +Some excerpts from Boston's Wikipedia page, see if this sounds familiar:
Despite having problems with manager Paul Ahern, being caught in the middle of a fight between Ahern and his business partner Charles McKenzie, and doing most of the recording work alone, Scholz completed the second Boston album two years after the debut album's release. The second album, Don't Look Back, was released by Epic in August 1978.
At the time this was considered a long gap between albums, but Scholz still considered Don't Look Back to be a rush job and was unhappy with the album's second side in particular. Overall Don't Look Back sold about half as well as the debut album, eventually selling over 7 million records.
Delayed by technical renovations to his studio, Scholz eventually began the process of working on Boston's third album, determined to complete the album at his own pace and up to his demanding standard.
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I want to see how successfully they revitalize WoW before I call on Blizz to make Warcraft 4. If Warcraft 4 were to turn out like SC2 or D3, I'd rather they never make Warcraft 4. I think it's a safe bet to assume if WC4 was release, it'd be underwhelming at best.
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I could see why the game got cancelled. It doesn't sound fun. In fact, it sounds like work. I probably would rather be in the office than playing that game.
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Im glad they cancelled if this is what the game was like. Doesn't sound good at all to me. But then again I really dislike this whole superhero thing. And playing a game to work doesn't sound fun.
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Yeah that sounded like utter shit.
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Ew, that did sound bad. Doesn't seem at all like a world or game Blizzard would make.
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The game description actually sounds very interesting to me. It kind seems like it could have had a lot more hardcore potential than WoW. Despite that, the idea seems like something that could appeal to a wide variety of gamers.
I can understand why it was cancelled. In the grand scheme of things, the very idea of Titan, as we know it, sounds incredibly ambitious. I'm not sure the industry, let alone the consumers, are ready for something of that nature.
Interesting how the article ended on a high note, though. Maybe we'll still see some toned-down version of Titan in the future. Perhaps, more small dev teams could be in the future for Blizzard.
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I read the first three pages so I'm not sure if this was mentioned, but wasn't Jay Wilson sent off to be a Lead Designer or something on Titan in 2013 after the public was literally sending him death threats for fucking up so hard on D3?
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Is anyone else hoping for them to release a 2nd Starcraft 1 expansion where the campaign goes Zerg => Protoss => Terran and it completely ignores sc2 lore and just gives us the game we want.
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If enough of us insist that SC2 is non-canon and make our own one I put myself forward
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On September 26 2014 04:22 Wombat_NI wrote:If enough of us insist that SC2 is non-canon and make our own one I put myself forward
Zerg Campaign - Kerrigan pushes forward and begins the assimilation of the known galaxy. Planet after planet falls. But she still has some level of humanity infecting her, so she sets off to prove herself truly Zerg by beginning her campaign against earth itself.
Protoss Campaign - the sudden laxation of the Zerg onslaught causes the Protoss people to gather together and attempt to flee the sector. Planet after planet artanis breaks in and frees his comrades, gatherin them for a final escape until the very end when Jim, after failing to convince artanis to help humanity, curses at artanis and says something like "turning his people into cowards was not what Tasadar died for" and he storms off.
Terran Campaign - raynor gathers Terran forces are mengst's forces fight off the main Zerg army. They do everything they can to disrupt the Zerg, to assassinate Kerrigan, even full scale nuclear war--all failures. Kerrigan finds their base of operations and right before the siege starts the golden armada warps in with artanis saying on the coms "no, fleeing is not what He died for--en taru Tasadar!" And it's a last stand just like in vanilla Starcraft with final mission a joint army of Protoss and Terran fighting the Zerg main army.
It would be glorious and I'd play the shit out of it.
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you forgot one detail:
1 year before the start of SC2 rebel terran scientists ( led by Sy Sperlings great,great,..., great grandson) combine rogaine, and laser treatments to instantly "cure" male pattern baldness.
Raynor grows a full head of hair in 6 weeks... later Dustin Browder's great, great,... ,great grandson attempts this same cure and it fails.
The search for a cure continues as every one speculates the cure may finally be found in SC3 by Egon Stetmann.
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Wish they would devote their time and energy recreating the SC2 platform and engine and re-release the game with a F2P model, so we can have all the things we've ever wanted: skins, better battlenet services and UI, customizable voicepacks, ladder observing, twitch intergration, etc.
Then we could have constant big gameplay patches like LoL or DoTA instead of waiting for LoTV...
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On September 26 2014 04:41 Thieving Magpie wrote:Show nested quote +On September 26 2014 04:22 Wombat_NI wrote:If enough of us insist that SC2 is non-canon and make our own one I put myself forward Zerg Campaign - Kerrigan pushes forward and begins the assimilation of the known galaxy. Planet after planet falls. But she still has some level of humanity infecting her, so she sets off to prove herself truly Zerg by beginning her campaign against earth itself. Protoss Campaign - the sudden laxation of the Zerg onslaught causes the Protoss people to gather together and attempt to flee the sector. Planet after planet artanis breaks in and frees his comrades, gatherin them for a final escape until the very end when Jim, after failing to convince artanis to help humanity, curses at artanis and says something like "turning his people into cowards was not what Tasadar died for" and he storms off. Terran Campaign - raynor gathers Terran forces are mengst's forces fight off the main Zerg army. They do everything they can to disrupt the Zerg, to assassinate Kerrigan, even full scale nuclear war--all failures. Kerrigan finds their base of operations and right before the siege starts the golden armada warps in with artanis saying on the coms"no, fleeing is not what He died for--en taru Tasadar!" And it's a last stand just like in vanilla Starcraft with final mission a joint army of Protoss and Terran fighting the Zerg main army. It would be glorious and I'd play the shit out of it.
holy fuck you gave me nerd-chills i cant belive this shit :D :D and i was gonna report you for that first post that reeks of bw-elitism, talk about comeback ^_^
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On September 26 2014 02:24 andrewlt wrote:I could see why the game got cancelled. It doesn't sound fun. In fact, it sounds like work. I probably would rather be in the office than playing that game.
That is basically eve online integrated with dust-514.
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that sounds pretty bland wow
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