Blizzard Cancels Next-Gen MMO Titan

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA.

BAH HA HA no seriously.

So, all that money we spent for 11 years on WoW, giving them millions upon billions of dollars, went towards what? Developing SC2 and D3 both of which have now been 15+ year processes?

Just lol.

Just give us SC2 LotV already :p

I guess they decided to titan the purse strings.

Would be nice to see some of the concept work they had created. Be worth a look I'd say to see what they had in mind originally.

Good to know they won't just shovel something out to the customer though if they aren't feeling it.

We get enough cr@p shoveled out from big studios. As disappointing as this might be for some, I appreciate that this was a tough decision for them to abandon it and it was probably all for the best if they weren't "feelin' it"

I think Blizzard almost owes it to Warcraft fans to release a Warcraft 4 already. Beyond that, having this new IP not be an MMO is a good move, and they could work on a more modern sequel to WOW or something.

Ok i dont feel like forcing the english out today so i apologize ...blizzard sa fais plus de 10 ans que vous etes plus dans la course pour les mmo just let it go already wow's dead live with it...make world of Starcraft now!...

This means that Half Life 3 is confirmed.

My guess is that Blizzard was taking WAY too long developing this MMO and the initial design of the game was becoming obsolete with all the changes to the gaming industry. Think about it, since they announced development of the game in 2007 we've seen an increase in microtransactions, DLC replacing expansions, free-to-play games, Twitch streaming and social media, and the eSports scene blowing up. There are so many new things they need to consider now.

Of course their biggest obstacle is dealing with the MMO scene. For the last 10 years there has only been 1 MMO that's dominated the market and it's bringing in a billion dollars in revenue per year. The rest of the MMO scene has been pushing free-to-play models with no subscription to play online and some developers even release the game for free and rely on micro-transactions to get by. Most new MMOs are trying to get rid of all the grinding in PvE as well which is

like 80% of a typical WoW player's game activity. How do they make money with another MMO under these circumstances? How the hell do you re-invent the wheel here? How do you develop a game for 7-8 years and not have it play like a last-gen game by the time it comes out?

I respect that they decided not to release this game. A few well-known WoW designers that helped make the game quit the WoW team years ago to work on Titan and I know they tried hard, but it's a b**** to create another Game-of-the-Year quality MMO these days.

GREAT!!

Now, can you please get back to Warcraft?

And not the shitty MMO, but the RTS...thank you

Blizzard is in a downward spiral. After the debacle of diablo 3. They can't even do a better MMORPG than the 10 years old WoW.

Holy crap that's probably the most unexpected gaming news ive heard in my life.

Props to blizz and surprisingly Activision for cancelling something they have probably put hundreds of millions on.

I think Blizzard should show us what they were working on at the very least. To me it seems more like, "well, we're raking in serious cash on WoW, let's just release another update to that game".

No doubt the success of Hearthstone made this decision much easier to swallow.

The MMO genre needs a shake up, something different.

People are getting tried of playing the same basic game in every-single mmo, gear grinding, chasing quest from zone to zone which most people find mind numblingly boring now since the quality/presentation of the quest are so bare bones (really how many ways can you write a quest to go collect "x" amount of items?

The stories/quests in mmo's don't hold a candle next to great single player story-focused rpgs like Dragon age, Mass Effect, Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment, etc. Mainly because there's just no quality behind them because the nature of the gameplay dictates you need soooooooo many quests and writers get burnt out and stretched thin , just padding out generic storylines over and over.

Then you have the fact that they keep trying to stuff mmo's into a generic "You are the ONE/Chosen/Hero/Savior of the entire world, meanwhile you see 100's of other players doing the EXACT same thing, same quest, and it completely and utterly takes away any and all importance you felt as a character. IT's like they can't let an mmo accept it's an mmo with many other players and build a story around this where you aren't the "Chosen one" and instead drop you into a world where you, the player, make your own way/story (like old Sandbox mmo's).

Then there's the gameplay, recently some mmo's have tried to make it more fun, but they still want to keep one foot in the old tired and busted "tab-target/hotkey" focused gameplay. Tera was about the best at getting away from it but it still holds nothing next to aoctual action-adventur egames (Severance, Rune, Mount and Blade, etc).

It just still amazes me, that when we had the first big generation of mmo's, Ultima Online, Everquest, and Asheron's Call, all of them were quite different from each other in terms of game design. Now these days all the big AAA mmo's are largely the same, Built off the WoW type of gameplay (which was largely built on EQ's formula).

It's like the entire mmo genre is littered with sooooooooo many mmo's that have tried to go after this same gameplay and have failed or had to go f2p and yet no mmo developer outside of small indie ones (Which have not nearly enough of a budget or marketing to get out there and compete against the big ones) even seem to want to try to buck this trend or do something new/different.