Would you Crowd Fund a New Blizzard MMO?

[Stormspark]

Sure why not!? It worked for WoD right, and they're trying it again with Legion.

lol, yep. That's a great way to put it. Blizzard isn't getting another dime from me.

[cFortyfive]

crowdfunding a product of a company worth 19 billion - yeah right.

[Keile]

No....because Blizzard doesn't need to crowdfund. They have more than enough money to make a new MMO.

Crowdfunding has it's place, and it's not for large devs/companies to use it to not put up their own money for something. It's for smaller devs and companies to try and get something off the ground that they couldn't have otherwise.

[May90]

I would crowd fund Warcraft 4 RTS.

[hulkgor]

Are you joking?

Absolutely not.

Blizzard made WoW without crowdfunding. If they want to make a new MMO, they have the resources to easily do so considering their profits. Sadly, they are not interested in quality products anymore.

But answering the question, no, i would never ever crowd fund any Blizzard product, specially an MMO.

Also, Crowd Funding is not really aimed at Multi Billion Dollar companies like Blizzard. That's just a silly notion.

[dextersmith]

Blizzard has plenty of money and I've already given them too much over the years.

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So I have been following Star Citizen and I am impressed that it has received 80-90 Million of backing so far. I pledged 45 bucks a year ago but I am on the fence on pledging more.

They're a lost cause if they can't make a good game for 80-90 Million.

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How is that any different that giving money to another company to make a game? One has no money to start with a questionable track record and the other has the funds to finish it and has a great track record. Isnt the whole point of crowd funding to give money to a company to develop a game that you want to play? Who will have a higher probability of getting done and not go bankrupt in the process?

A company like Blizzard will complete any game they choose to, with or without your money. Probability is not a factor here.

[Coldkil]

Nope.

I don't have anymore time anymore for MMOs, Blizzard has WoW already on their hands for t6he MMO genre and Blizzard also has a lot of money so they don't need crowdfunding.

[Cien]

If by crowdfund you mean actually just buy the game normally when its released, as it SHOULD be done, yes.

Otherwise, why on earth would we need to actually crowdfund it, ridiculous idea lol

[-Nurot]

Not sure I understand the validity of the question. Technically Blizzard is allowing you to "crowd-fund" the majority of their projects already with 6 month to a year pre-orders. I guess if we wanted to see game quality drop, then sure they can fund entire projects mostly from pre-order sales.

[Pony Soldier]

Seeing as how I would never crowd fund anything my obvious answer is no. Not even for Blizzard.

[Ciddy]

I feel like crowd funding is more for these start-up companies that otherwise can't afford the resources required to put a game together. Blizzard.....is obviously not in that situation. So, no. I'd probably lose a lot of respect for Blizzard if that happened.

It would be kind of like Microsoft asking for donations to cover development costs for the next version of Windows.

[PuppetShowJustice]

A company large enough to run its own semi-annual convention has no business using the crowd funding model.

[Truhan]

No. Why should anyone crowdfund a game for a billion dollar company? How could Activision-Blizzard possibly be hurting for money so bad they'd simply NEED their fans to give even more than what they're already getting? Doesn't Hearthstone alone bring in like $20 million per month? In one year, they get more than DOUBLE what Star Citizen got through SEVERAL years of crowdfunding. FROM HEARTHSTONE ALONE.

[McNeil]

Hell no, not to anyone, and especially not Blizzard. Not only because they already make plenty of money on their own, but I very much doubt my money would go into the development of this new MMO.

[NoRest4Wicked]

Hell no, they are a billion dollar company. They can fund that shit themselves.