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More WoW, Major 2007 Announcement for Blizzard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shocker dept.

Blizzard has announced their intention to follow up this year's Burning Crusade expansion with a new World of Warcraft add-on every year. While not terribly surprising, they have also announced that they're working on a major announcement for next year. Consensus seems to be that it will likely be another Starcraft game, given comments by Blizzard COO Paul Sams. "StarCraft is my absolutely favorite game of all time. As you probably already know, there is no doubt that we will continue the StarCraft and Diablo franchise, and trust me, I will be the happiest person in the world when we announce StarCraft 2."

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  1. Geez, and this is news? by theRhinoceros · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wow. An announcement that there will be an announcement next year about a game that likely will not come out for a while after that, barring no (ahem) delays. Anything to get hits on a blog/AdSense clicks, right?

    1. Re:Geez, and this is news? by jackbird · · Score: 4, Insightful

      With a billion a year in WoW subscriptions, I think retail Xmas sales are icing on the cake to Blizzard.

  2. Wow churn by BrookHarty · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've been playing since beta, and checking the stats on my server, the number of total online players have been going down hill for the last year.

    Many of the large guilds are gone, they dont play as much, and people just pop on to talk to friends.

    I cant wait until the expansion when they disconnect honor/rank from pvp'ing and allow smaller groups for instances. Non-instance pvp, The casual player suffers from wow's (l33t guild) attitude.

    I think many people are just paying but not playing, soon people will finally just cancel the accounts.

  3. Re:-1, DMCA-wielding jackbooted thugs. by base3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just because you happened to use it to avoid paying for the game doesn't mean that the people who were getting together on their own servers using the software they paid for were all committing copyright infringement. Blizzard used an unconstitutional law to persecute an open source project, and they will never see another dime from me. Unfortunately, there are plenty of sheep unwilling to vote against their war on freedom with their wallets.

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  4. Re:If they don't release on the Wii, I won't play by freshman_a · · Score: 4, Insightful


    Sorry, Blizzard, I loved Starcraft I and II, Diablo I and II, but ..

    So... you loved their PC games, including one that never existed (perhaps you mean StarCraft: Brood Wars, not Starcraft II?), but you will only buy the game they have yet to announce if they release it on a system that has yet to be released and you have yet to actually play?

    Please tell me there is some sort of sarcasm or humor that I'm missing...

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