Jeff Kaplan leaving World of Warcraft for next-gen Blizzard MMO

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Well the people in Charge of WoW set out to make a better version of EQ as they were big EQ fans back in the day. The guys making their new mmorpg have a new goal in mind and it is one to be different and create as they said "not another WoW". So I think it is safe to guess that it'll probably be easy like WoW but it will be different.

Blizzard is the only company now that will never deliver a product that isn't good and it is 100% certain that their new mmorpg will be the next big mmorpg. Everything that isn't made by Blizzard wont be popular and that is just helped by the nature of the genre. People want to invest lots of time into developing their character in an mmorpg they know will always be popular and that will always be a Blizzard mmo.

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Sorry to burst your bubble fanboy (you sound like on, but may not be one), but not even Blizzard will beat WoW.

WoW is a beast that, in my opinion, is a fluke success.

It was the right time when it came out.

Not saying it isn't a good game, it's amazing, but I think it'll be next to impossible to beat WoW, even by Blizzard themselves.

Course it doesn't matter. A successful MMO makes up for development and turns a profit monthly, and LotRO and War do that and they don't even have a million people...Well maybe LotRO does, I don't know.

Either way, I'm sure their MMO will be good regardless, but I doubt it'll be WoW.

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I'm not a Blizzard fanboi and I didn't like WoW and just wish'd they made SC4 instead. However everything Blizzard makes is so successful.

Starcraft and Diablo have so many fans and them games keep selling and have sold over 10 million each that if they made mmorpgs based on them IP's then they'd be just as big as WoW.

Starcraft mmo would be even bigger than WoW.

It isn't a Fluke.

WoW is so popular because all the fans made it have a population into the millions. Then all the hardcore mmorpg came and tried it because they all love mmorpgs and then because the everyday guy has lots of friends that play WoW then he goes and plays that. You then have all the people that hear about how popular it is on the news and in South Park who also pick the game up.

I played WoW myself just because my friends did and it is no fun playing any other mmorpg by yourself.

The next mmorpg Blizzard make will mark my words be Bigger than WoW if it is Starcraft.

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