What would Blizzard do after World of Warcaft? - Friendly discussion

[Berengil]

World of Diablo please

EOD

another fantasy mmo? take a look at the market for mmos, its choked with fantasy

Galaxy of Starcraft. Do eeeeeeeeeeeet.

[Trapped]

Couse wow is dead right? right? right? like, what, more than my entire country's population are still active, but the game is dead. The most played MMO game of all time and the only one who can keep montly sub no matter what is ... dead.

Come on my server (silvermoon EU) And see what a dead realm is like, you cant get to a quest without people camping it, the groupfinder is full with 30-40 groups all the time.

You are having a dead brain, if anything.

Your server appears full because of CRZ technology.

The group finder is full because its people on other servers.

IIRC, Legion is the first expansion to have current content CRZ'd.

[anon5123]

World of Diablo please

EOD

WoW already is World of Diablo. Random drop legendaries, endlessly-scaling dungeons, near-endless EXP (AP) grind after you reach max level, etc.

[Kokolums]

Somewhere in the 2030s to 2040s, i see disney buying this ip and trying a couple movies. Maybe a small blizzard section in disneyland with a ride or two.

[kaintk]

world of diablo... it seem impossible they never think about it or dont work on it actually secretly, i mean, the lore and popularity of the game just gave them a good reason to do it, and legion was a good test for it

WoW already is World of Diablo. Random drop legendaries, endlessly-scaling dungeons, near-endless EXP (AP) grind after you reach max level, etc.

yeah, but its not diablo lore neither the world of diablo

[Pony Soldier]

Probably make another game based on RNG and loot boxes. Seems to be the new fad right now in the industry.

[iNUKE]

Give me a second, let me plan out my entire life before I start living it.
Im a retard like that.

[Gadzooks]

Somewhere in the 2030s to 2040s, i see disney buying this ip and trying a couple movies. Maybe a small blizzard section in disneyland with a ride or two.

Disney? Nope. They have more than enough IP with Star Wars/Pixar to last them 50 years, and the game is too dark for the parks.

Outside of the WOW community, nobody cares. Universal would be the ones to pick up more movies, as they were behind the first one, and their parks would be more likely to host anything, but WoW would have to be at Harry Potter levels of fandom to do it. Stuff at Universal/Disney is really, really fucking expensive to build and design in the parks, I don't see it happening at all. And, it has to be family friendly. WoW isn't.

And, you're assuming that a decade from now, people will have any interest in a 20 year old video game. That's some powerful wishful thinking you've got there.

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world of diablo... it seem impossible they never think about it or dont work on it actually secretly, i mean, the lore and popularity of the game just gave them a good reason to do it, and legion was a good test for it



yeah, but its not diablo lore neither the world of diablo

Diablo lore is in a bad place, the game doesn't really have a next chapter, without changing the entire feel of the game. A prequel is what I'm thinking. There's a big part of the world it's set on the game never explored.

[Dartz1979]

Warcraft 4, Wow2, Diablo 4, Diablo MMO.. if you think something that would fill the hole of Wow conceptually, these would be your possibilities. Quite unlikely to happen tho

A cross-over theme would be interesting for a mmo but fornow let's stick with what we have.

[Kokolums]

Disney? Nope. They have more than enough IP with Star Wars/Pixar to last them 50 years, and the game is too dark for the parks.

Outside of the WOW community, nobody cares. Universal would be the ones to pick up more movies, as they were behind the first one, and their parks would be more likely to host anything, but WoW would have to be at Harry Potter levels of fandom to do it. Stuff at Universal/Disney is really, really fucking expensive to build and design in the parks, I don't see it happening at all. And, it has to be family friendly. WoW isn't.

And, you're assuming that a decade from now, people will have any interest in a 20 year old video game. That's some powerful wishful thinking you've got there.

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Diablo lore is in a bad place, the game doesn't really have a next chapter, without changing the entire feel of the game. A prequel is what I'm thinking. There's a big part of the world it's set on the game never explored.

I disagree because the lore is way too rich. They can mine it for a lot of stuff. Disney would have to reboot the entire lore because the writers butchered everything but wow lore is one of the most prized assets. It can surely be kid friendly, especially when the wow gamers get older and have kids to go to parks with. I can see an actor dressed as thrall running around disneyland going loktar ogar.

[Ehrenpanzer]

World of Diablo please

EOD

Because they've done so well with Diablo 3 right? #shudder

[Deleted]

I fear that instead of putting creativity first and loving what they do they will end up going the route of "how can we make lots of money and how do we design a game around it?"

One can clearly feel that this is the way it has been for quite some time now. The love for the art is not quite there anymore. Even though the games are still good they do lack that very special something that you cannot describe with words

[Sastank]

To be fair FFXIV has kept the monthly sub and is still growing... WoW isn't alone in the sub MMORPG space.

Didn't FF peak at like 1/2 the WoW subs though? No clue just know no other sub based MMO is close to WoW lol.

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Because they've done so well with Diablo 3 right? #shudder

World of Destruction.

D2:LOD based MMO. Ez money.

[Aeula]

Destiny 3.

[Dacu]

Starcraft MMO please.

[Xofa]

Because they've done so well with Diablo 3 right? #shudder

So no more Diablo forever? Come on dude.. wake the fuck up

Diablo 3 is a disgrace yes.

[kaintk]

Because they've done so well with Diablo 3 right? #shudder

dont mess diablo 3 who is just an action grind in 2d space with a whole game being made in a huge world , in 3d and in a rpg atmosphere like WoW vanilla have been, a world of diablo would be make in a huge world, with rpg thing everywhere showing us all the lore that diablo have (there so much potentiel in this lore, diablo is not just diablo 3 and 2, there a lot of book on it proving that the thing has good potentiel to be mmorpg material)

[bufferunderrun]

Well Blizzard has released products after the introduction of WoW including the recent Overwatch which is crushing WoW in terms of growth and numbers.

The question becomes does Blizzard attempt to fill the MMO void with another IP or do something else with the Warcraft IP. Is there a big enough interest to return to an RTS of which the devs will try to shove an e-sports aspect to it? Personally I would love a WC4 which in my opinion is a far better method of telling the story.

When WoW will get put on life support could be four years or more from now and a lot can change by then in regards to the market. Do RTS games make a return or a new style of MMOs has yet to be seen.

my hope is at certain point they go to the elder of scroll way, abandon rts genre and create a series of single player open world games without all the restriction an mmo have.

There is so much potential in all three ips (WoW, diablo, starcraft) that will never be completely expended if they stuck to only mmo, a&s, rts.

[Cosmic Janitor]

A new RPG? Do they have one already?

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Probably make another game based on RNG and loot boxes. Seems to be the new fad right now in the industry.

You are close. As you said, that is the fad right now. The question is what will be the fad in 5 years or so from now.

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my hope is at certain point they go to the elder of scroll way, abandon rts genre and create a series of single player open world games without all the restriction an mmo have.

There is so much potential in all three ips (WoW, diablo, starcraft) that will never be completely expended if they stuck to only mmo, a&s, rts.

While I would love proper single player RPGs, the reality is that unless they can shoehorn some (semi-competetive) online play into it, it probably won't happen..

[bufferunderrun]

While I would love proper single player RPGs, the reality is that unless they can shoehorn some (semi-competetive) online play into it, it probably won't happen..

i wonder why they already have multiple online games is that really important for blizzard to make only online games?