Blizzard Founder Explains The Cancellation Of World Of Warcraft Follow-Up Titan

Sounds like they tried making a Blizzard game and their new owners caught them! I used to enjoy anything they put out, sadly it seems they stopped being a gamer's game company and became a dairy farm just milking the old cash cows over and over. Not exactly shocking so many of them left the company, I wish they'd reunite and give us the next paradigm shift in what modern gaming is to be.

developers at blizzard are pretty much lucky due to the fact that they work in blizzard. anything produce by blizzard most likely a big hit simply because of the golden days like diablo, warcraft, starcraft and wow.

This is such old news. Why is it being rehashed? Oh, because the author can't find anything newsworthy to actually write about.

Just release Classic and WC3:reforged already. Couldnt careless about what they do next.

They say Blizzard didn't find the fun, yet they released Diablo 3. Hoping Diablo 4 is way way better than Diablo 3 was.

As some have said, that's exactly what happened to Star Citizen. Too big, too ambitious, sorta impossible. But SC did not cancel...Maybe they should have.

Mike Morhaime should still be at Blizzard, but I think he saw it crumbling and left at the right time.

Does Blizzard still even make games? I thought they simply updated what they already had and re-released that.

Can't believe it was that long since they cancelled it.

Diablo 4?! Finally a sequel to the acclaimed mobile Diablo

tl;dr They canceled because they realized they were making a blizzard game...

Plot twist. Titan is, in fact, Star Citizen.

I always figured they didn't want to cut into their WoW cash flow. Didn't it have some 15 million subs at one point? Maybe around the time they made the South Park episode.

At least there's Star Citiz--oh, wait.

I hope they eventually release a next-generation World of Warcraft.

Currently they seem to be going backwards, with WoW Classic, that no one really wants (they think they want it, but they really don’t).

they cancel it because they need to focus on more mobile games :D

No, false. False absolutely. They merge with Activision. Those said it was too risky. And that's it. It was an ambitious game and now we would be playing a proper MMO instead of the minigames they are trying to milk us with today. We will probably still think today Blizz is worth our time if Titan became real. The MMO scene was a lot worse the day WoW was released. And was a lot more risky by far. But Blizz is as bad as the worse today. I would never have paid* them a single cent if I knew what they were going to do with our money.

So now they're actually working on Diablo 4? Has the mobile game been cancelled as well by now? Would be kinda ironic if they cancel all those games that people would definitely be interested in, but release shitty mobile games instead that they've clearly seen a majority of their players have no interest in.

Translation: "The MMO scene was becoming stale and absolete so we turned it into something that would find more appeal in modern audiences, aka a first-person-pvp-hero shooter". ;)

I feel like this game was cancelled a lifetime ago but we're still talking about it, when people were way more excited about news for that Starcraft FPS (though of course it died a long time ago as well).

This was before the dark times.

Before Activision.

Joking aside, if the guys from back then, before Activision's financial department took over, say the game just didn't seem fun enough to bother completing, I believe them.

I've played WoW off and on since vanilla, and the game has been well worth its subscription cost easily. But if you had to pick WoWs weakest area it is... story. Especially compared to EQ, LOTR, FF14, and others. The warcraft universe was not exactly deep enough to base a 15yr old MMORPG on, nor do the factions have enough 'space' to flesh them out and expand them enough for a game this old.

It may be that no lore can hold up for that long - which is why a WoW 2 or a completely different IP should be created by blizzard before WoW becomes irrelevant to its current fans and future ones. (now this is in no way a slight to wow, we are still talking about the 800lb gorilla in the room, that any developer/publisher would push their grandma out a window for and one, that has lasted this many years.) Blizzard should make a MMORPG, that is more like a Star Ocean, in that each expansion can be its own world, rules, heroes, villains, etc. - you do grow stronger, but you cannot keep having world ending destruction in wow/ Azeroth, every other year and stay connected to the smallest of NPCs and their stories.

Will farmer Joe Blow really care about watering his fields and killing feral hogs, when a god dragon just split the continent in half and a island sized space sword just impaled the planet. ? So again the story is about the only weak part of wow over the years, but still, they have done an amazing job with what they started with.

Well overall Overwatch was succesful so I guess they turn something terrible wrong into something amazin.