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Blizzard Set To Debut 'Something New' At PAX East
skade88 writes "Ars is reporting that Blizzard will announce a new game on March 22, 2013 at PAX East. They say the new game is not a sequel or expansion. Blizzard is also saying the new game is not the long rumored MMO named Titan. Considering that every game Blizzard released since 1998 has had the name StarCraft, Warcraft or Diablo in it, this is big news. Ars speculates in the article that the new game could be Blizzard's version of a DOTA game. They showed off Blizzard All-Stars at BlizzCon 2010 as a SC2 custom map. It could be ready for launch as its own standalone game. I guess we will have to wait and see!"
No...let me guess, more micro-transaction shit, right?
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they've done away with the pretense of a game and just have an auction house.
Or it could be truly shocking and they are going to produce a fun game again.
I would love to see a new Warcraft RTS. preferable without some lame story shoved into it.
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I wish I could say this was interesting but expect "Blizzard announces facebook game" or "Blizzard announces Warcraft DOTA"
Well, there are a half dozen of those already, too. So: Nothing new still.
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can't wait
3d isometric top down view and you have to spend money to buy every upgrade
Microtransaction Hero!
Spend real money to buy things to wave your dick around on the forums. Complete with full public profiles so others can see how much money you actually spent.
Cool features like:
- Call people noobs for not spending as much money as you have
- Spend money instead of actually playing the game
- Spend money to acquire virtual currency that Blizzard owns
- Spend money to super-inflate the in-game economy so if you want something later, you have to spend more money
As the title implies, I can't stand all these DOTA/LoL-clones. They're fine if you're a pimple-faced teenager with raging hormones and the need to yell at someone, but it sure won't attract me.
Oh wait, you're serious, let me laugh even harder.
They're going to keep flogging Warcraft and Starcraft until they die.
And what exactly is a DOTA game?
Too little, too late.
They should have joined that bandwagon a long time ago. Even DOTA2 can't touch League of Legends now.
I can't wait for that to hit.
That Kickstarter was exciting. "If we get this much money, we'll do this in Linux".
Ok, we just hit that number.
"If we get"
Ok, we just got that while I was typing the description.
My mom says I'm cool.
PREPARED for what blizzard is bringing forth!
/me runs away
make a TBS game as good as HOMM 2 or 3!
I will show "some reaction" when I know what it is.
Seriously, I mean, I'm used to vaporware and whatnot, but this is getting ridiculous. Are we now supposed to get excited over the announcement of getting "something", they can't even be assed anymore to at least announce it?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
They are probably being pressured by Microsoft to announce Diablo3 on the Xbox since they already announced Diablo3 on the PS4.
It's exactly the same as WoW just with Hobbits added. Just think hairless Pandas that need to be fed constantly.
I've tried DOTA multiple times. It's simply boring. Not a fun genre. Like any genre, it has its depth. But it's not an interesting depth. It bores me. I don't like that there's no long term progression. And yet I don't mind that in pure RTS. But in the case of DOTA, that lack is genre-killing.
And the headline had me excited for Titan or something interesting and new.
But if it's not Titan, it is absolutely a DOTA.
And EA-Blizzard has completely lost my interest for awhile because of it.
I am kind of curious. They cover there fantasy and dark fantasy bases with Warcraft and Diablo, they cover their distant future with Starcraft.
What does that leave that's significantly different?
A contemporary hyper-realistic fps war game? Where you can trade real world money to drop tanks and get airstrikes?
An mmo where you play as a minimum wage worker at a large box store? You can have to make up the difference in your rent with micro-transactions?
A pirate simulator? Where you need to use micro-transactions to buy fruit so you don't get scurvy?
They lost me as a customer when they introduced Kung fu pandas to WOW, that was the last straw. The only game of theirs I play now is Diablo2 when the ladder is reset.
They will never see anymore money from me.
Then it's going to be a prequel, obviously.
Have you forgotten how poorly they treated the community and the whole bnetd fiasco?
I don't give a flying fuck what they make, they will never get a dime from me.
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)
Since Blizzard is owned by Activision nowadays I'd go with "World of Duty" .. Another cash-cow coming in!
Blizzard has become the J.J. Abrams of game developers in the last couple years. Nothing they do is risky or ambitious. As a result Diablo 3 turned into a snoozefest with no new mechanics and a loot system that was less exciting than its predecessor. They showed they can't break away from core mechanics in Starcraft 2 that were terrible for the multiplayer scene. If they were to make a DotA style game at this point, I would give an absolute vote of no confidence in their ability to turn it into a quality competitive game. Sure it'll look pretty and it'll run smooth. It'll either be well balanced and boring as hell or broken beyond all belief. They'll ignore player feedback and commit themselves to horrible design decisions.
The thing I dislike most about Blizzard right now is that they seem to think that they have bottled the formula for fun. They think that they have a perfect statistical method for determining balance while completely ignoring how their games are actually being played. What they've actually bottled is the perfect formula for average clones of prior success. So not really all that excited.
There is no memory shortage. yes I have heard of XFCE. Go away.
Maybe this will be World of Starcraft! I have long thought that it was the next evolution of that franchise.
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They take a good game and mess it up. Wonder what they will be doing this time
I'll say now that I'm not buying it. Then again, I say I'm cancelling my WoW account and never returning. Only, in four months I renew, level to 45, get bored, and quit again. I do this three times a year. Diablo 3, told myself I wasn't going to bother. Week after release, I bought it. Blizzard always seems to sucker me into their games. No matter how often I tell myself I'm not playing, I come back. >.
Certainly has my attention as to what the game could be though.
Blizzard will be out of business before it releases whatever this is in 2019.
WoW has seriously turned me off to Blizzard games. Seven years in that did have it's good times but that was from the people I met and not from the game I played.
Loved Diablo 1 and 2, haven't even touched Diablo 3. I'll be cracking away at the next cavern in Minecraft when they release this new one.
~~ Behold the flying cow with a rail gun! ~~
They're supposed to be demoing that at PAX East.
Maybe it's the REAL Diablo 3.
I don't really care what it is, it's going to suck. Look at WoW. Waste hours on end to get gear, so that when the next release comes you need to grind again and that gear you already have that you worked so hard for? Worthless. Then you get the jerks that want to kick anybody that hasn't been playing for over a year running the same raid day after day so that they don't have to waste time waiting for anyone new. Add to that the constant manipulation of stats to make one class or another better or worse after you've spent months playing that class, and now you're getting slapped everytime you get into a PvP scenario. Oh please sign me up. Not. F U Blizz. Seriously. F U.
World of Warcraft --> Slurpy of Starcraft? (great for cross promotion)
Blizzard jumped the shark years ago. The only people who might be legitimately excited by this news are stockholders, at the prospect of yet another franchise to milk cash from.
Eastern Kingdom and Kalimdor Xtreme Beach Volleyball.
Which will be followed in about five years by
Leisure Suit Larry in the land of the night elves.
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Finally, another game available for the Mac! We almost have a dozen good games now!
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Knowing Blizzard, they will take their time to release a product. By which time I would probably be having my soul sucked out of me by Elder Scrolls Online.
Warcraft/Starcraft MMO Cross Over, WoW + Eve Online.
I jest.
Maybe a new Blackthorne? ;)
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A Diablo RTS with MACRO transactions! You can buy more games from them within the game!
Nobody mentioned that Blizz said they had a new Linux game for 2013, or at least Linux compatible. Could it be it?
I hope its a Lost Vikings themed bubble shooter.
cause surely they aren't lame enough to showcase Diablo 3 for PS4 again
I'm finished with Blizzard. After the giant pile of diarrhea that was Cataclysm they decide to fix it with Pandas and Pokemon. Then we get a Starcraft sequel we waited years for that played the same as the first while being split into 3 games to make more money for Activision. Then there was Diablo 3 which was a worse game than it's predecessors and now we find out that they were blowing smoke up our asses by being a PC only company then cripple a flagship IP with a game that was killed by consolitis. Any semblance of the old guard has no more power anymore and they are nothing more than a cash register for Activision. It's a sad story: game company makes good games then gets bought by beancounters then turns into a shit factory over time. I don't care what Blizzard does anymore. Blizzard is dead.
It doesn't matter what they show, it will be a decade before it arrives so who the fuck cares?
Blizzard was dead for me the day they rained on bnetd.
http://games.slashdot.org/story/02/02/21/0136256/blizzard-rains-on-bnetd-project
Now they are just dammed.
Could just be that they will announce the "Project Blackstone" project which is probably only a different type of custom game or mod for Starcraft 2.
http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/blackstone/
Blizzard owns the rights, and remaking the game as a server-side would be awesome.