May 13

It’s Not A StarCraft MMOG

Category: Blizzard, WoW

This is what Blizzard’s frontpage looks like right now:

Blizzard's FrontPage
I don’t know what they’re planning, and this is just a guess, but I think I’m going to agree with Brent: Not a StarCraft MMOG. The two lines converge on one title, the “?”. My hope is that this means a new IP, but I dunno. That’s my gut reaction to the image, though: NOT a StarCraft MMOG.

I don’t see a pattern in the lines or anything. As Matt says below, I think it’s just a timeline. What makes me think that it might be a new element is the fact that … well … they’re due. Their last truly new IP was StarCraft, which launched 10 years ago next year. The company has made some phenomenal games since then (obviously), but you can’t help but think the designers over there are ready to explore some new ground.

Assuming their Massive game is still in the works in the background and that this is a title in some other genre, my thought is that it might be another RTS title?
We don’t have long to wait, so …
Update: Re-written for clarity.

5 comments

5 Comments so far

  1. Deck May 13th, 2007 10:37 am

    I think this is just a countdown, and we’ll see the highlights shift to the later titles on a day by day basis. In fact, I just noticed that the main splash image is named “day1.jpg” so it’s definitely a countdown.

    Doesn’t mean that it is or isn’t StarCraft, just means that Blizzard wants to rev up the hype. (Not that they need to.)

    Can’t wait to see what it turns out to be…

  2. Michael May 13th, 2007 11:13 am

    Oh, I totally know it’s going to change. I am looking forward to the Diablo days. :)

    What makes me think this might be something new is that they’ve got the question mark all by its lonesome in the middle of the two tracks. Its isolation suggests to me that perhaps it’s a bit separate, a bit different, from previous titles?

    One can only hope. I really have little interest in a StarCraft MMOG.

  3. Matt K May 13th, 2007 11:40 am

    That doesn’t look like two tracks to me so much as they’re staggering the titles on the timeline so that it isn’t cluttered. I think you’re reading too much into their graphic design here.

    Or perhaps I’m just thinking shallowly. At any rate, I don’t see much rhyme or reason to which titles are on top, and which are on bottom.

  4. Paul Barnett May 15th, 2007 12:41 pm

    This will be Starcraft 2

    This will not be World (or indeed universe) of Starcraft

    Message ends

  5. Matt M. May 16th, 2007 2:23 am

    Warcraft > Warcraft > Diablo > Starcraft > Diablo > Warcraft > Warcraft > Diablo?

    There’s a pattern in the time line.