Blizzard launches new website - Project Blackstone

[wynterlyn]

http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/blackstone/login

Holy, freaking, crap!

Edit: The password is said to be Y7_$0>0k_3<$m


The website seems to contain some manner of pre-launch event to HotS. As you enter the password you're able to currently read three messages sent between two characters in a covert research facility that seems to have something to do with research on zerg.

Pretty sure this is some kind of marketing campaign for their "Project Titant" MMO. Blizzard can't avoid having all the attention. With The Elder Scrolls Online hogging the lime recently, Blizzard needs to get their shit out too. Isn't it coincidental that the same day ZMO release their Alliance cinematic, Blizzard goes ahead and releases their SC2 cinematic?

I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard is actually shitting themselves over TES.

[Kittyvicious]

Awwww... Way to get my hopes of joining a collective consciousness bent on galactic conquest up and then dash them...

Scientology is still there for you if that is your true desire.

[dragothica]

But is TESO competing with Titan? Probably not, as Titan will be released years later than TESO.

It's just HotS marketing campaign or their unnannounced "linux game".

[Kittyvicious]

Pretty sure this is some kind of marketing campaign for their "Project Titant" MMO.

All signs point to no. Since Titan isn't supposed to be a SC MMO.

I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard is actually shitting themselves over TES.

I would be. It doesn't look any more amazing than the 100 other MMO's that came before it that people tried to hype up with statements like these.

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xD Thanks for making my day^^ For the first 1 1/2 sentences i was like "oh no he can't be serious =(" ^^

Heh, glad to help!

[unholytestament]

Pretty sure this is some kind of marketing campaign for their "Project Titant" MMO. Blizzard can't avoid having all the attention. With The Elder Scrolls Online hogging the lime recently, Blizzard needs to get their shit out too. Isn't it coincidental that the same day ZMO release their Alliance cinematic, Blizzard goes ahead and releases their SC2 cinematic?

I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard is actually shitting themselves over TES.

Yeah! How DARE Blizzard promote their games! Only game companies that are frightened would dare to do something as cowardly as promote a game!

[Doozerjun]

ah, the new wow killer

[DeadmanWalking]

Heres my call, in either HOTS or the Protoss release something will happen to make more more zerg that are capable of independant thought rather than a hive mind. Then they release a 3 faction Star Craft MMO with players able to play as a Zerg faction. They have already created a 'galactic threat to all life in the universe' enemy like the Old Gods in WoW in the first SC II Terran campaign and they mentioned that players will find in HOTS what it feels like to be one of the hunted Zerg. I find it hard to feel anything for an all life consuming hivemind race, but if the zerg were capable of independant thought and feelings then they could feel nd make us feel what it is like to be hunted.

So Titan will be a starcraft MMO with 3 factions including a Zerg faction with players playing Zerg capable of independent thought.

[tripleh]

Blizz did fly the guys out who made the world of startcraft video a while back. My guess is after the last starcraft 2 expansion with the protos . We might start seeing starcraft become an mmo.

[unholytestament]

but if the zerg were capable of independant thought and feelings

FOR INDEPENDENT THOUGHT AND FEELINGS!!!

...

Nah. Doesn't have the same oomph.

[Noomz]

I love it, really clever and cool.

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Pretty sure this is some kind of marketing campaign for their "Project Titant" MMO. Blizzard can't avoid having all the attention. With The Elder Scrolls Online hogging the lime recently, Blizzard needs to get their shit out too. Isn't it coincidental that the same day ZMO release their Alliance cinematic, Blizzard goes ahead and releases their SC2 cinematic?

I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard is actually shitting themselves over TES.

Project Titan isn't Starcraft. This is Starcraft-related.

[Nindoriel]

I love it, really clever and cool.

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Project Titan isn't Starcraft. This is Starcraft-related.

It could be Starcraft, we don't know what Titan is.

[Sj]

It could be Starcraft, we don't know what Titan is.

Project Blackstone is almost assuredly Starcraft related, judging by the url.

[ParanoiD84]

the Blackstone name can also be found inside the Warhammer 40k universe, specifically inside the Battlefleet Gothic rulebook, written by ex-Blizzard Creative Director and Starcraft 2 lead, Andy Chambers. The Blackstone Fortress is a massive ship of unknown origin, able to destroy entire planets.

One can dream.

[DeadmanWalking]

Did they say that Titan was based on a current Blizz IP or Blackstone? My memory seems to be flawed on the subject but I believe someone who is usually correct about such things said Titan was based on a current IP and was not a new IP.

[JW1984BE]

There's no way, in my opinion, they would release a Starcraft MMO while SC2 is active. This is just to hype up HotS.

WCIII was still active when WoW was launched, no?

[Nindoriel]

Project Blackstone is almost assuredly Starcraft related, judging by the url.

I'm talking about Titan.

[Sj]

For the purposes of this thread, Titan != Starcraft

[reckoner04]

How could anyone think that Project Blackstone is NOT Starcraft-related after visiting that url? Am I missing something obvious?

[Nindoriel]

Did they say that Titan was based on a current Blizz IP or Blackstone? My memory seems to be flawed on the subject but I believe someone who is usually correct about such things said Titan was based on a current IP and was not a new IP.

Yes

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...an-Speculation[COLOR="red"]

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For the purposes of this thread, Titan != Starcraft

You don't know that. There's speculation Titan could be a spin-off of an existing IP.

[zorkuus]

Why would it be anything but SC2 related when it's in the SC2 section of battlenet?