Blizzard speaks (briefly) about new MMO plans

@danubus

That's Activision, not Blizzard. Despite *everyone's* insistence that Activision is running Blizzard now, it's not true.

http://www.skylandersgame.com/

This is the new toy game that Activision announced at ToyFair.

@Locus You should really leverage that anger in a positive way.

@Baromega

What's negative about burning marketing departments?

@Locus

How about the expression "going forward"? It's amazing they didn't do it here, but the article was too short. If it were a little longer, they would have put it in.

@Locus

And I'm sure they also want to "bring something new to the table." ;)

@xBludx You make me want to punch puppies with talk like that.

@xBludx By pushing the envelope?

@Loopy

And then go back to the farm, shift some paradigms, and revolutionize outside the box?

@LandMine What they really need is more synergy.

@(Unverified)

which is exactly why they only gave 5 new lvls in cataclysm. with them giving only 5 lvls per xpac they can squeeze out 2 extra expansions from a dieing WoW before hitting 100 lvl cap. they know their 2 mmos will only coexist for a couple years. "titan" or whatever its called will long outlive WoW. they got greedy with only giving us 5 lvls imo

@(Unverified)
RealID as a communication mechanism between games, and between differing barriers within the same game is fine, but the Real part where sharing the email address is not.
That functionality should be something you can selectively opt into with various other players without the need for the email address, and you should have the option to flag yourself as off-line as you choose since RealID in its current form prevents the ability to have characters you can escape to for a break or anonymity.

@(Unverified)
Agreed, and simply put if they make and MMO that follows their "belief" in social-networking like the original RealID then they can count me out.

@(Unverified) RealID was never about being like XBL or PSN or whathaveyou. It was always 100% about seeing people you know personally in-game. Why would you want to use anonymity from people who know who anyway?

@mbarriault Exactly. I only have about 10 people on my RealID, all real life friends, a few of them who don't play WoW but are big SC2 players. It's nice to chat with them sometimes, especially when I don't get to see them in person that much anymore (a few of them are former coworkers who've moved on to other jobs/locations). Also, Nobody is forcing you to actually use the RealID thing. You can still /friend characters in the game like you used to, you know.

@TheAngryIntern Exactly my point through a lot of time.

People think of RealID with Facebook in mind, and it's not the same. Not even close.

RealID is for YOUR friends, not random people you meet in a random dungeon or a Skirmish in SC2.