GDC: Bungie's Next Game Is An MMO

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Nsanity on 03 March 2011

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At a panel session at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today, Bungie lead network engineer David Aldridge confirmed to attendees that the developer's next title is a "massively multiplayer action game."

Rumors about the game have bounced around the internet in recent weeks, with anonymous sources describing the new project as "WoW in space." At his talk, titled "I Shot You First: Networking the Gameplay of Halo: Reach," Aldridge specifically noted that the title is not "WoW in space." So there you have it.

The still-untitled game series will be published by Activision, and it's the first non-Halo project the studio has worked on since joining Microsoft to release Halo: Combat Evolved. This isn't the first time a Bungie rep has mentioned that the studio was interested in making a persistent online game. In answer to a fan's query about the upcoming project during a 2010 GDC session, Bungie's Joseph Staten responded by asking, "Wouldn't it be great if we could make a world that was always there for you?"

Looks like Bungie is answering its own question.

http://ie.xbox360.ign.com/articles/115/1153533p1.html

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AbbathTheGrim on 03 March 2011

Whatever they come up with, they won't even touch Borderlands. Not saying that Borderlands is an MMO though.

Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

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PullusPardus on 03 March 2011

AbbathTheGrim said:

Whatever they come up with, they won't even touch Borderlands. Not saying that Borderlands is an MMO though.

because Borderlands is repetitive as hell!

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mantlepiecek on 03 March 2011

Did Bungie leave MS because of this? They wanted to make an MMO and couldn't make it on XBL?

lol just a theory.

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Friesian on 03 March 2011

To be clear, Dave said that if attendees wanted to work on a massively AWESOME multiplayer game, they were hiring. There may have been an impliciation that their next game would support a large user base per simulation, but he didn't admit to the development of an MMO.

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scat398 on 03 March 2011

Activision knows that true growth in the industry is from MMO and a consistent fee base from users. Bringing bungie on board to create an action mmo that will work well on XBL and attract members to pay a monthly fee is a good strategy.