First official confirmation that new Blizzard MMO is original IP

I am more interested in which format the mmo wil be than in the content it will be packaged.
I expect a further development of what we see in present day tools they use.

- PVE quest driven? Probably.
- Mini Games instead of standard quests? Probably.
- Phasing and changing worlds? Certainly.
- PvP based? 100% sure.
- Coorperative with big grouping? Nope.
- Cooperative with small groups? Yep
- Competitive e-sport included? Yep
- "Mounted" combat? From the very start.
- Full 3D borderless worlds and no loading screens in action? A necessity
- Sandboxed? Not a chance (Blizzard has no place for dreamers - they make games).
- Destructable worlds? 100%
- Huge dungeons and raids? 100%
- Limited classes? Max 10.
- Polished?: You bet.
- Realistic grahpics? Not a chance this is an MMO, not a "loading graphics screen with instances".

Rests the settings of that beast:

Space, the final frontier with each planet being a server and the possibility of having far more players by server clustering.
Only this time... you'll actually LIVE on a planet instead of being clustered to a cockpit chair.....

Blizzard excels at creating original content from scratch? LOLOLOLOLllllls!
If they considering borrowing from everyone original.
I've always viewed them as refiners. They take a good idea, and make it pretty much perfect, but they never made the idea.

And I doubt it'll be a fantasy MMO. It would eat into WoWs userbase... Though it'll be funny to see, cause this game will never ever EVER get the numbers WoW has. If anything it'll probably only see itself with 300-500k users, which isn't bad by any means.

My guess it either super casual MMO (ala Free Realms), Steampunk, or Sci-Fi.

Hardly confirmation. More loose lips...

Until Blizzard loses the bad influence from it's foreign owners and programmers (thats right kiddies i typed that) They could create the best MMO out there and i still wouldnt touch it.

WOW is the best example of "Lemming mentality".

I honestly hope its shi fi.

@Bossy

- Coorperative with big grouping? Nope
- Huge dungeons and raids? 100%

Does not compute. You're contradicting yourself there, unless I'm just being stupid and reading something wrong. That said, we probably just have differing definitions of big groups, small groups and raids.

-Small group to me is 5-10 members.
-Big groups and raids are one in the same. 20+ players. Can't have raids without big groups.

On topic. I'm praying they really switch up the setting as well. I'm really sick and tired of Fantasy MMO's. I hope they're willing to take risks in the gameplay and design of the game, not playing it safe. WoW will always be there bringing in absurd amounts of money. Throw those that want fresh, new ideas, tougher gameplay, and yes, there needs to be a good endgame. Love it or hate it, the game's longevity depends on it, unless Blizzard can truly reinvent the wheel, which is not out of the question imo.

Good to see Massively reads its own site. :)

Here's the real first official confirmation we got that the new MMO was a new IP, back in October, 2008:

http://www.massively.com/2008/10/14/blizzards-kaplan-drops-hints-about-next-gen-mmos-genre-and-pla/

More than that it will be another fantasy game, I fear that it might be a MMO for kids. Since those seem to be becoming really popular. It's also obvious that Blizzard has been increasingly catering to the casual gaming community.

So my educated guess is that they will take all the good ideas in WoW and other MMO's. Polish them to perfection and then deliver it all in an extremely casual package.

You're about six months late on "official confirmation" since Mike Morhaime stated awhile back that it was an original IP.

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I get the feeling it's going to be FPS-oriented MMO. I agree with earlier post that suggested a world war 2 era game. Blizzard is all about marketing first and they know how popular Call of Duty or CounterStrike is. I wouldn't be surprised if they tap into that area.

Everyone is expecting a Sci-fi MMO, I think they'll hold off until they are ready to utilize their Starcraft franchise. They are milking it with the latest RTS edition, and probably do one more before converting it to a MMO. Besides they won't abandon the RTS market. So before Starcraft becomes a MMO, they are going to need a fresh IP for a RTS game.

At least that's my wild theory.

Since when did Blizzard ever develop their own IP from scratch?

My money is on a Space MMO ala Eve-lite. Just think WoW in Space.

Well considering they have ties with EA , i think it could be something like Call of Duty MMO it can't be Sci FI why? because i think the unannounced MMO following this one will be a Starcraft MMO. It has to be an EA game but which one?

I am gonna say it will be a Western based MMO.

"They are milking it with the latest RTS edition".

It might be milking to you, but to a great deal of the audience, this is like a godsent. SCII, based on the few battle reports they have posted on their site, is going to be just a great as the original. Knowing that all legendary RTS (such as Age of...) have only become less and less stunning and interesting, that's great news for the fans. I personally have never seen anything coming from Blizard that could be viewed as 'milking", albeit some things less succesful than others. Not everything might work out the way you'd like to, but I always give Blizzard credit for their efforts. No fanboiing , just objectively viewing their efforts. Almost all their games have been succesful. If they deem someting not fun enough to play, such as SC Ghost, they'll cancel it. If I compare Blizzard with let's say EA, (C&C games for example) than the quality of the series has been ever degrading. Blizzard won't allow it.

My bet is modern fantasy. A tide of these seems to be rising these days (WoD Online, Secret World, GhostX... and I have to be missing some of them).
Who's with me ?