| Bodhesatva said: As someone who avidly follows WoW, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that I've known about this project for over a year. They've been listing job apps on their website for "Next Generation MMO" for a long time now. Unless they magically knew about the Activision deal back then, it's not Activision stuff. Even if Blizzard ever agreed to do it (which they would not), it's not chronologically possible. Just wanted to squash that rumor right away. It's likely a new IP, based on previous statements. The end. |
Yeah, I could be wrong but I suspect they 'learned their lesson' about producing a MMO game based on an existing IP ...
The nice thing about an existing property is that you have a massive ammount of lore and a gigantic following of dedicated fans; and the bad thing about an existing property is that you have a massive ammount of lore and a gigantic following of dedicated fans. My favourite example of this problem is Star Wars Galaxies ... You have a class (Jedi) which a large segment of your population wants to play as, another large segment wants to stick to the lore and have them be rare, another large segment wants them to match the lore and be amazingly powerful and dangerous, and no-one wants the game to lose balance; hypothetically speaking, you could balance this by making Jedi-Skills take 10 times as much experience to develop as other skills, but I don't think many people imagined Jedi's training by killing 35,000,000 bores in the low level forests to improve their lightsaber skills.
