Blizzard Won't Retread WoW Ground
When the company does get around to doing another MMO game, it says it will strike new ground.
You can't argue with the success of World of Warcraft. The game already has 8 million subscribers worldwide and the expansion pack, The Burning Crusade, sold 2.4 million copies in its first 24 hours on sale last week. That success isn't making developer Blizzard any less interested in innovation.
Blizzard is home to other popular series too, not least of which is the popular real-time strategy game StarCraft. There was talk in 2006 that Blizzard was looking to repeat what it's done with World of Warcraft in its other franchises, but the company says it has no interest in doing the same thing again.
"When we announce our next MMORPG it's not going to be another WoW," Blizzard's Itzik Ben Bassat told Empire. "We're not a company that tends to tread the same ground. It'll be something innovative and new that really brings entertainment to another level."
So what's the game? Right now, nobody knows, but it's clear that Blizzard isn't concerned with half-measures. Most recently it killed a console game based in the StarCraft universe after several years in development.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo
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