Blizzard Cancels Next-Gen MMO Titan - Page 4
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TelecoM
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screamingpalm
United States1527 Posts
Blizzard should probably do what Firaxis does and just take ideas from the indies that are coming up with the creative and innovative stuff and just polish and improve on them like they are known to be good at. | ||
FeyFey
Germany10114 Posts
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Brett
Australia3820 Posts
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Copymizer
Denmark2076 Posts
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ACrow
Germany6583 Posts
On September 24 2014 07:21 Copymizer wrote: this game has been 7 years in development, billions dollars burned off and now cancelled. dayum blizz. I hurt its even trillions of dohlars | ||
rotta
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Deleted User 183001
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On September 24 2014 06:16 screamingpalm wrote: Ouch, wonder how much of that work was done by some of those big names that have now since left the company. Seems like every other month there is news about big talent leaving, but I never put stock in a brand name anyway... only as good or bad as the people behind it. I was under the impression that the top shelf talent were the ones working on the project though. :D Blizzard should probably do what Firaxis does and just take ideas from the indies that are coming up with the creative and innovative stuff and just polish and improve on them like they are known to be good at. The difference is that the last time Blizzard made a solid game was arguably 2004. The last time Firaxis made a solid game was 2013 (XCOM) and initial comments on the new Civilization game coming out next month are overwhelmingly positive. The cancellation of Titan is 7 years down the drain, and doesn't reflect well on Blizzard, whose success to this day has entirely benched on the Warcraft and Starcraft franchises they made back in the 1990s. | ||
Jaaaaasper
United States10225 Posts
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screamingpalm
United States1527 Posts
On September 24 2014 08:29 JudicatorHammurabi wrote: The difference is that the last time Blizzard made a solid game was arguably 2004. The last time Firaxis made a solid game was 2013 (XCOM) and initial comments on the new Civilization game coming out next month are overwhelmingly positive. Yeah that's what I mean. The new features for Civ: BE are all ideas I've seen from smaller/indie titles which look to be more polished and improved upon (affinities remind me of govt type in sots2, tech tree from ES). Basically what I remembered Blizzard to be good at doing. :D | ||
Kevin_Sorbo
Canada3217 Posts
On September 24 2014 06:46 Brett wrote: Wonder which game Blizzard will send Jay Wilson to fuck up now.... ;D thats exactly what I was asking myself upon seeing the thread title. | ||
Jett.Jack.Alvir
Canada2250 Posts
On September 24 2014 03:03 ninazerg wrote: May we have StarCraft 3 please? Wow LotV hasn't even been announced and you want next generation already! Blizzard is coming out with a movie, so they need to cut budgets. IMDB has a Warcraft movie posted for release in 2016. My guess is that they didn't want to invest into both next gen mmo and a big budget movie. Damn though, 7 years in development and then Titan is tossed in the bin. | ||
Pontius Pirate
United States1557 Posts
On September 24 2014 03:24 Brutaxilos wrote: To all the people thinking Blizzard will make Warcraft 4 now... Keep in mind Warcraft 1, 2, Starcraft 1, and Warcraft 3 were all made by the same division within Blizzard (the RTS department). As they still have LotV to work on, I seriously seriously doubt we'll get WC4 anytime soon. In all honesty, I'd expect SC3 to come out after LotV first, considering that it seems like Blizzard is making the Starcraft franchise their flagship RTS series and Warcraft their MMO (and I guess cardgame). Edit: Also announcing a WC4 would create competition with LotV which is never really a good idea. What if they went balls deep into the hero system and made WC4 a hybrid RTS/MOBA? Personally, that would utterly turn me off from ever having the slightest desire to play it, but MOBAs are crazy popular, and it seems like a formula that could sell amazingly well. | ||
Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
On September 24 2014 08:29 JudicatorHammurabi wrote: The difference is that the last time Blizzard made a solid game was arguably 2004. The last time Firaxis made a solid game was 2013 (XCOM) and initial comments on the new Civilization game coming out next month are overwhelmingly positive. The cancellation of Titan is 7 years down the drain, and doesn't reflect well on Blizzard, whose success to this day has entirely benched on the Warcraft and Starcraft franchises they made back in the 1990s. Most subjective statement in the thread award. And that's saying something. | ||
Latham
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Pls Warcraft IV RTS :3 | ||
dsousa
United States1363 Posts
They should make it detailed and complex so they bring back some of their more sophisticated fans. Instead we get Hearthstone and LoL 2.0. | ||
Champi
1422 Posts
hopefully we see warcraft4 a few years earlier than expected now | ||
Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
On September 24 2014 10:01 dsousa wrote: World of Starcraft. Its not rocket science. Make a space based MMO based on characters in the SC universe. They should make it detailed and complex so they bring back some of their more sophisticated fans. Instead we get Hearthstone and LoL 2.0. Detailed and complex doesn't sell games I'm afraid. | ||
JimmyJRaynor
Canada15932 Posts
"Metzen compared Blizzard's creative struggles with Titan to that of a band: "I'm not saying we're an old rock band. But you watch documentaries about The Rolling Stones or U2 or these bands that have lasted for a while. And there's times where they just drive each other batshit crazy. For as good as they are and the experience they have, sometimes you just don't find it, and you've got to get out of the damn studio and go have a beer and regroup."" 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. game development at blizzard is a long, lonely, lonely, lonely time. i'm glad to see Morhaime still has the autonomy and balls to cancel lame projects no matter how much cash is sunk into them. What I'd like to know... and we'll never had the answer to this... is ... in the past 10 years which released title came closest to getting cancelled ? SC2? D3? some WoW Expo? Hearthstone? i think it was D3 in May 2012. the game design guy got replaced pretty fast after its release. | ||
Deleted User 183001
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On September 24 2014 09:40 Doodsmack wrote: Most subjective statement in the thread award. And that's saying something. *humble bow* I admit I exaggerated for effect, but for what it's worth, it's a very common statement. While I personally like SC2 a lot, the degree of overall discontent I've seen with Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 over the years since their releases has been significant, from players familiar with previous Blizzard games and new players as well. The ever-so-popular "Starcraft 2 is dead" meme doesn't help either. Hearthstone is a nice Magic-style card game, but Heroes of the Storm will be Blizzard's next crack at a real-time action game. It's a MOBA, so making a good game out of it will hopefully be more straight forward than a heavy adventure RPG like Diablo or an intricate and complex RTS like Starcraft 2. Also, there's no real story/plot to Heroes of the Storm, which was a major element and point of criticism both in Starcraft 2 and in Diablo 3. | ||
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