anyone else disapointed

[grellboy]

Is anyone else disapointed that we were waiting a whole week to see what that splash was about, only to find it was diablo 3. it's wows website not diablo's it should have just been on the message board. they should have saved the splash for something wotlk related. this will also mean that wow will be going downhill from now, what with the massive team being asigned to diablo 3 (and there will be one it's an MMORPG). you can expect a load of bugs and glitches from now on cus blizz is gonna be taking care of its new pet instead. blizz you have basicaly destroyed your company. wow is gonna be overrun with glitches and d3 won't last long probably because it died a year or so after they stopped making new additions to the series. kudos for trying to resurect an old game but the new generation of gamers likes wow. also you've basicaly killed d3 strait away anyway releasing it so close to a wow xpac. likely people will stay around for that so no players for d3. either that or the oppisite happens and d3 steals wotlk players. way to go blizz.

[Piccione]

Why do you think blizzard will let world of warcraft die?

Diablo3 and Wow are different kind of games. We have a single player game like diablo that surely will have all the multiplayer aspects that diablo2 had but nothing more, and we have an MMorpg like wow that is totally different. Wow will have another full expansion set in less than 1 year (probably) and diablo3 is coming out (probably) not before 2010. Blizzard in my opinion is working on 3 different fronts right now:
1) Continuing to improve the best MMorpg in the world (expansion and patches)
2) Creating the best RTS possible out of starcraft2
3) And creating the best RPG game out of diablo3

World of warcraft means a lot of money for blizzard. They are not stupids and they are not going to let it die. At least not before the Warcraft movie comes out.

[grellboy]

well unless blizz wants to take 10 years to make diablo they are going to have to asign a massive task force to it. and that means less attention will be paid to wow. trust me glitches will run amok. besides if diablo wasn't close to being released they wouldn't have made the splash now.
beside i think i've seen the 1st ominous signs of the "glitch invasion". every so often there is an apparently server-wide glitch were every thing stops working. spells don't cast mobs stand till or completely disapear. you can move but no one else can. while it's on you can't log off and just have to wait for the server to dissconect. i'm bracing myself for a veritable plague of glitches 5 times worse.

[mmorpg man]

what makes you so sure about this? do you know how many programmers, etc that blizzard has? I agree with Piccione, Blizzard is pulling in a larger range of gamers by making 3 games each in a different genre. if they can pull this off then they could increase profits by up to 5-fold.

[Kalos]

well unless blizz wants to take 10 years to make diablo they are going to have to asign a massive task force to it. and that means less attention will be paid to wow. trust me glitches will run amok. besides if diablo wasn't close to being released they wouldn't have made the splash now.
beside i think i've seen the 1st ominous signs of the "glitch invasion". every so often there is an apparently server-wide glitch were every thing stops working. spells don't cast mobs stand till or completely disapear. you can move but no one else can. while it's on you can't log off and just have to wait for the server to dissconect. i'm bracing myself for a veritable plague of glitches 5 times worse.
It took three years between Diablo and Diablo II, it took six years between Warcraft II and Warcraft III. Game development takes time and resources, but if a much smaller Blizzard could have pulled it off without inpacting upon thier other projects significantly, then I have no doubt they're going to be pulling out on WoW development in any large manner. Remember they have been hiring many, many people since those days, and they just got a new HQ to house far more developers onsite than before.

[grellboy]

you have to agree however that there will be atleast a small (im think moderate) increase in glitches. the glitch i mentioned earlier is quite bad and if it becomes more frequent.

[MrBCorp]

Is anyone else disapointed that we were waiting a whole week to see what that splash was about, only to find it was diablo 3. it's wows website not diablo's it should have just been on the message board. they should have saved the splash for something wotlk related. this will also mean that wow will be going downhill from now, what with the massive team being asigned to diablo 3 (and there will be one it's an MMORPG). you can expect a load of bugs and glitches from now on cus blizz is gonna be taking care of its new pet instead. blizz you have basicaly destroyed your company. wow is gonna be overrun with glitches and d3 won't last long probably because it died a year or so after they stopped making new additions to the series. kudos for trying to resurect an old game but the new generation of gamers likes wow. also you've basicaly killed d3 strait away anyway releasing it so close to a wow xpac. likely people will stay around for that so no players for d3. either that or the oppisite happens and d3 steals wotlk players. way to go blizz.

You are kidding right? That makes it sounds so doom and gloom. I doubt it will all go as downhill as you say. I thought Blizzard had more than one office? And I thought they always keep their different departments constantly in work? As in, always thinking about their next move and lots of planning and developing.


you have to agree however that there will be atleast a small (im think moderate) increase in glitches. the glitch i mentioned earlier is quite bad and if it becomes more frequent.

That used to happen all the time when I played (before the first expansion). We used to call it LAG. At one point it happened so often we used to call the server Lagrock (Blackrock). It died down a LOT when they upgraded the hardware.

[Davemetalhead]

you have to agree however that there will be atleast a small (im think moderate) increase in glitches. the glitch i mentioned earlier is quite bad and if it becomes more frequent.

No, I don't agree. In fact, I've not experienced the "glitch" that you talked about in your original post either.

I think you're flat out wrong. They're not going to abandon WoW - it's the biggest MMORPG on the planet, and makes them a shed load of money. They're not about to let it slide. It won't be the same development team for both projects - believe it or not, company's can do more than one thing at a time.

[Kalos]

you have to agree however that there will be atleast a small (im think moderate) increase in glitches. the glitch i mentioned earlier is quite bad and if it becomes more frequent.
I don't agree. I just don't see why the development and production of another game would impact WoW, they wouldn't be using the same production staff as I explained. It didn't cripple them when they were working on Starcraft I AND Diablo I at the same time, and it didn't cripple them when they were working on WoW and Warcraft III. They've always worked on multiple projects, and considering the screenshots we're getting, they've been working on this for over a year already. With the amount of new staff they've been taking on, I don't think they're going to need to pull any resources of their main cash cow.

[det]

Watch the gameplay and artwork trailers of D3 - They are AWESOME. But also D3 is (as expected) in the footsteps od D2, only massively improved. It is still isometric, with environment interaction, great graphics and effects, but parties of max 4 (at the moment)

The final battle in the trailer with the siegebeast is just brilliant. One of the characters dies..but does he just fall over? No! The boss bites his head off. What a gorey game...

And I can see myself play WoW and D3...they both fill different niches :)

[jrkraken]

I have trouble taking this seriously. Newsflash: Both Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 have been in production for years already. It's not like something will suddenly change just because a game is announced. Stop trying to make things up, and stop being so damn negative about something you obviously know nothing about.

[Morgrenell]

Disappointed? No. Excited? Yes. I think it's great that D3 is coming out and I think it's going to be a great addition to Blizzard's variety of games. I for one am looking forward to both, D3 and Wotlk. I bet alot of others are also.

[grellboy]

You are kidding right? That makes it sounds so doom and gloom. I doubt it will all go as downhill as you say. I thought Blizzard had more than one office? And I thought they always keep their different departments constantly in work? As in, always thinking about their next move and lots of planning and developing.




That used to happen all the time when I played (before the first expansion). We used to call it LAG. At one point it happened so often we used to call the server Lagrock (Blackrock). It died down a LOT when they upgraded the hardware.

Actually its not lag. you can still move about perfectly fine but to you everyone else is stopped (and i guess to them you have stopped). and it doesn't matter where you its on everywhere. mabye im on my own on this cus i haven't played diablo.
and actually the wow population will be falling. on a thread on the new d3 forums (part of the official forums) plenty of people say they will be quitting wow for d3.
now to my 1st question who else is dissapointed that despite all the snow and ice the splash had nothing to do with wotlk?

[mmorpg man]

Actually its not lag. you can still move about perfectly fine but to you everyone else is stopped (and i guess to them you have stopped). and it doesn't matter where you its on everywhere. mabye im on my own on this cus i haven't played diablo.

a similar thing happened last year in guildwars. basically total server lag. it happens to all mmorpg's at 1 point or another.

[MrBCorp]

Actually its not lag. you can still move about perfectly fine but to you everyone else is stopped (and i guess to them you have stopped). and it doesn't matter where you its on everywhere.

So you can move but you can't cast anything? You can't log out? This used to happen to me a lot. Usually when the lag was really bad. Usually we could chat, but sometimes we couldn't even do that and in frustration I would shut the game down and try to log back in and it would say "a character with that name is already logged in" or something.

Nothing new I think.

[grellboy]

oh ok. well i suppose about d3 it's each to his own. i was just hoping there would be some massive wotlk news.

[Twoflower]

i wonder what you are smoking.

[Frebc]

Im glad Diablo is getting boosted up to 3D. I used to play it, but I got Map Hack and did not know what it was that time and got banned forever. And still I tried to log back on couple years ago and could not.

But D2 Is great game, and there making D3 even a better game, I might just buy me the three Diablo Games and WowtLk when I get the money just to see if I can play Diablo again.

++ for Diablo update, now with the new graphics I think Diablo 3 is going to be better then Lich King, I think Diablo 2: Expansion Set is better then Burning Crusade.

[WatcherZero]

Diablo 3 looks pretty far advanced, I wouldnt be surprised if it was out in under a year.

[Scorch_Hellfire]

Is anyone else disapointed that we were waiting a whole week to see what that splash was about, only to find it was diablo 3. it's wows website not diablo's it should have just been on the message board. they should have saved the splash for something wotlk related. this will also mean that wow will be going downhill from now, what with the massive team being asigned to diablo 3 (and there will be one it's an MMORPG). you can expect a load of bugs and glitches from now on cus blizz is gonna be taking care of its new pet instead. blizz you have basicaly destroyed your company. wow is gonna be overrun with glitches and d3 won't last long probably because it died a year or so after they stopped making new additions to the series. kudos for trying to resurect an old game but the new generation of gamers likes wow. also you've basicaly killed d3 strait away anyway releasing it so close to a wow xpac. likely people will stay around for that so no players for d3. either that or the oppisite happens and d3 steals wotlk players. way to go blizz.

grellboy just shut up... first off diablo 3 is not an mmo... second off starcraft 2 will also take people away from wow... third off diablo was not dead... my brother still avidly plays d2 online... and fourth off you are just a plain moron...

and btw on the whole ice and snow thing... PEOPLE THE NAME OF THE COMPANY IS BLIZZARD... AKA A SNOW STORM... WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?...

[Wartro]

I want new MMO

/cry

I need a hug

[det]

With the massive impacts of the Barbarians strikes, the so-awesome-it-is-almost-cartoony gore, the "watercolor" 3D environment, the male and femal races, the sound and special effects and the great monsters, it could be all the the so-called Diablo-Killers" of the last years like Titan Quest or Sacred could not deliver....

[Wartro]

No Warcraft 4

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tylrdiablos]

I'm looking forward to Diablo 3 now.

I own Diablo 2 + the Lord of Destruction expansion pack but I've never played them for over an hour.
(I used to play it online with a friend in a timezone that is 9+ hours ahead of me so it took some planning and neither could play for long without getting tired :D. )


The D3 gameplay video was great, awesome visuals and a surprisingly good quality file considering it was embedded into the Blizz-EU site.

I look forward to a high-quality download.

[det]

Actually you can theoretically dl it over the media link on the D3 page. The cinematic trailer was 47 MB and pretty swift...the gameplay video is 570 MB and is stuck at 0% currently..bleh :(

[WatcherZero]

and btw on the whole ice and snow thing... PEOPLE THE NAME OF THE COMPANY IS BLIZZARD... AKA A SNOW STORM... WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?...

Did anyone notice in one of their backdrop screensavers they had Diablo and Wotlk heads transitioning, keeping the glowing eyes in the same location.

[TPMdm]

The OP is full of fail for many reasons but allow me a simple real world illustration to hopefully calm your nerves:

When Ford Motor Corp unveils a new Mustang convertible does their F150 Pickup suddenly suck?

[Valas Azuviir]

grellboy just shut up... first off diablo 3 is not an mmo... second off starcraft 2 will also take people away from wow... third off diablo was not dead... my brother still avidly plays d2 online... and fourth off you are just a plain moron...

and btw on the whole ice and snow thing... PEOPLE THE NAME OF THE COMPANY IS BLIZZARD... AKA A SNOW STORM... WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?...

Calm down Scorchy. While I can understand the frustration, it's still not a valid enough excuse for flaming.

Oh and just for the record, that glitch you're experiencing, that's definitely lag. We went through the exact same thing during the beta test, when we had to stress test the servers to see what they could handle, so they throttled up and lowered the amount of data the server could handle/send out..

Quite annoying, but pretty much lag related.

The rest of your arguments have already been thoroughly debunked by everyone else.

[WatcherZero]

No, Mustangs have always sucked :) they have a turning circle measured in km.


beside i think i've seen the 1st ominous signs of the "glitch invasion". every so often there is an apparently server-wide glitch were every thing stops working. spells don't cast mobs stand till or completely disapear. you can move but no one else can. while it's on you can't log off and just have to wait for the server to dissconect. i'm bracing myself for a veritable plague of glitches 5 times worse.

Thats your client-server connection dying and the client cant update anything so your stuck in limbo till the client reailises and kicks you back to the login screen. Totally lag related.

[TPMdm]

No, Mustangs have always sucked :) they have a turning circle measured in km.

You know what I mean :wink:

[Urbanink]

DIablo 2 was my first love, i just hope her hair smells the same.It looks awesome and as soon as it was announced i got a facebook from my brother.

" YO DUDE Diablo 3 IS COMMING OUT EVENTUALLY!.YOU CAN HAVE MY WOW ACCNT WHEN IT DOES !" whitch is nice cause he has 3 full t6 chars :P.

[buckscrib]

I say buy stock in Blizzard because it is going to go up.
http://www.mmorpg-guy.com/pics/am.jpg

[WatcherZero]

If blizzard as a public company existed and wasnt part of a $40bn Movie, music, video games,television, eletrical and telephone utilities, (formally construction and any more I dont know about?) conglomerate I would wholeheartedly agree with you!

My college economics essay a decade ago was on vivendi (parent company of blizzard till activision merger) buying a major alcoholic drinks manufacturer (Diageo) but the deal collapsed after I graduated anyway.

[det]

DIablo 2 was my first love, i just hope her hair smells the same.

Actually D1 was my first love. I remembered saying that no way I would switch from my beloved DoS to Windows 95 just for a game..but hell did I switch quickly when it was out. D2 was a Quantum leap for me..lv 92 on place 73 of HC ladder Europe the climax and with friends I made back then, I still play (but WoW now). I cannot see that I give WoW up for it, like I gave D2 up for WoW...but that depends entirely on when it comes out.

For all we know 2 classes are done..we may see 2, 4, 6 more. And deveral more acts and levels than the ones released....

[Leviathonlx]

They are aiming for 5 classes.

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/faq/

Five character classes will be included in the game, two of which, the barbarian and witch doctor, were revealed when the game was announced at the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational. The other classes will be announced at a later date.

[Tort]

Like Det said, Diablo 3 and WoW fill different niches. I doubt Diablo 3 will be anymore of a "WoW killer" than Hellgate London was supposed to be (lol). I see myself playing Diablo 3 in between raids, or when I find myself wandering around Org with nothing to do. Of course when it first comes out I will be playing that game to death.

I can see myself maybe dabbling a bit in Battle.net as well, but nowhere near to the extent I did before I found WoW. Diablo was always about the story and endless, mindless killing of mobs. It just doesn't compare to the gameplay or general thrust of WoW or any other MMORPG.

[Your Average WoW Player]

My opinion:

Diablo III isn't going to harm WoW in any way shape or form. There won't be a drastic increase in glitches, bugs, bad content etc.

Chances are, Diablo III has been in the works for sometime now (I think the rumor about the whole "Hydra" thing started before Blizzcon of 2007, about the time SCII was announced), which means that it's probably been in production for at the very least a year now, probably more. It was just announced on Saturday, and with Blizzard, that usually implies it's been in the works for some time.

Hell, there's probably at the very least six or seven projects going on right now:
Starcraft II
Wrath of the Lich King
Diablo III
New MMO
Next X-Pack after WotLK
Starcraft II Expansion
and maybe even a Diablo III Expansion might be in the initial stages.

That's seven projects that are possibly being worked on right now, and each one probably has it's on team. There won't be an increase in Glitches in WoW. Sorry to disappoint you, but there won't be. Blizzard's not a tiny little company. They're easily able to shift programmers around to do different things. Hell, each one of those projects probably has it's own dedicated team, including a team working on WoW. What do you think that $15 a month is paying for?

[grellboy]

My opinion:

Diablo III isn't going to harm WoW in any way shape or form. There won't be a drastic increase in glitches, bugs, bad content etc.

Chances are, Diablo III has been in the works for sometime now (I think the rumor about the whole "Hydra" thing started before Blizzcon of 2007, about the time SCII was announced), which means that it's probably been in production for at the very least a year now, probably more. It was just announced on Saturday, and with Blizzard, that usually implies it's been in the works for some time.

Hell, there's probably at the very least six or seven projects going on right now:
Starcraft II
Wrath of the Lich King
Diablo III
New MMO
Next X-Pack after WotLK
Starcraft II Expansion
and maybe even a Diablo III Expansion might be in the initial stages.

That's seven projects that are possibly being worked on right now, and each one probably has it's on team. There won't be an increase in Glitches in WoW. Sorry to disappoint you, but there won't be. Blizzard's not a tiny little company. They're easily able to shift programmers around to do different things. Hell, each one of those projects probably has it's own dedicated team, including a team working on WoW. What do you think that $15 a month is paying for?

you've made your point and i was probably just getting worked up about it being nothing to do with wotlk. i've just never played diablo before. besides doing potentialy 7 projects at once is quite stressful even if they can manage it. think of the guy who runs the whole show. designing content for 3 whole worlds is a big task even if hes not doing it on his own.
P.S: i think the new game was d3.

[Pharoahe]

lol those glitches are lag, you must be new to the game...

"and actually the wow population will be falling. on a thread on the new d3 forums (part of the official forums) plenty of people say they will be quitting wow for d3."

lol you do realise this anecdotal evidence means nothing.
Diablo will be a totally different experience from WoW, no one's gonna ditch WoW for Diablo alone, the games are very different. If they do, its probably one reason out of many...

I do agree with you though, I'm not at all interested in D3 (or SC2) and wish there was some more Lich King news. But WWI is not even over, and they're far more likely to make a LK announcement at the end of the show. Stop being so negative.

[Pimmeh]

Alright let me start out here.
Diablo 2 has just been announced, they will release it when it is finished. With blizzard, this can take up to 3 years before they give a release date, and they'll probably push that back some more, so lets say 4 years.
Four years where the players who will quit WoW for Diablo 3 will still play WoW.

For me, I will give up WoW to become a good Starcraft 2 player, and as soon as Diablo 3 comes out, I will probably play that too, yes, but it is not like I will abandon World of Warcraft as if I never played it. MMORPGS rarely die out, even Everquest still has a community!

Blizzard is currently developing three things that we know of:
1. Wrath of the Lich King.
This game will trigger another surge of players that is already part of this 10million+ community

2. Starcraft 2
Hell, it's about time. They had to visit this world, and so they did. This will take away a number of WoW players, but as soon as they notice that they suck in RTS they will flock back to WoW and whine about the imbalance of Starcraft for the rest of their lives, whilst playing their Warlock+rogue ganking team.

3. Diablo 3
I have seen this one coming as soon as I heard the first mention of an "unnamed" project. It was coming, and it should be coming. The third of the series will take away a lot of people who got sick of Diablo 2 with its repetativeness and gameplay that decided to play WoW instead, but what does that matter? There are 10 million players!
Let that sink in... 10 million.
10 000 000! I dont know the exact number of servers, but do you really think that all those 10 million players will drop their character and play Diablo 3? I dont think so.

World of Warcraft is a MMORPG and as such, it has more teamplay then Diablo 3 will have. I doubt D3 will have Raid content, 25 man or even 40 man instances, let alone battlegrounds. WoW is unique and it will not do to compare those games. Therefore I dont think that everyone who likes WoW will like D3.

There, I said it.
Not a bad first post, eh?

[MrBCorp]

...
and maybe even a Diablo III Expansion might be in the initial stages...

I'm gonna go ahead and say that I'm 100% positive that there IS an expansion in mind or even already under development. They would've planned at least SOMETHING at the same time they started thinking about D3. These buggers have proven they think LONGTERM (my favourite kind of thinking).

[WatcherZero]

The way development studios work is you have staff for certain stages of production: planning, concept art, engine design, modelling, class development, quest development, itemisation etc.

The project moves through these stages, once the inital stages like planning and concept art are done these teams then begin work on the next project, probably while the project isnt even 50% completed yet. So yes im sure their working on other things already.

What blizzard are great at is keeping secrets, Diablo 3 has been in development for 4 years already and all weve heard is rumours, no leaks whatsoever. Blizzard also dont announce things to fair late in development, usually only 1-1.5years before release at max. Diablo 3 aint going to be in development for another 4 years.

[semiiramiis]

My only disappointment with the great DIII splash screen is that it doesn't want to die. I click "Go straight to worldofwarcraft.com" ad nauseum and am still stuck staring at Diablo.

[elsegundo]

Is anyone else disapointed that we were waiting a whole week to see what that splash was about, only to find it was diablo 3. it's wows website not diablo's it should have just been on the message board. they should have saved the splash for something wotlk related. this will also mean that wow will be going downhill from now, what with the massive team being asigned to diablo 3 (and there will be one it's an MMORPG). you can expect a load of bugs and glitches from now on cus blizz is gonna be taking care of its new pet instead. blizz you have basicaly destroyed your company. wow is gonna be overrun with glitches and d3 won't last long probably because it died a year or so after they stopped making new additions to the series. kudos for trying to resurect an old game but the new generation of gamers likes wow. also you've basicaly killed d3 strait away anyway releasing it so close to a wow xpac. likely people will stay around for that so no players for d3. either that or the oppisite happens and d3 steals wotlk players. way to go blizz.

you need to really think through your assumptions.

[Xlorep DarkHelm]

Hardly disappointed. Especially since Blizzard increased their size what... 1000x since they launched WoW years ago, and have been able to handle multiple projects... they aren't the old company of a mere ~30 developers they used to be. FYI -- blizzard.com *and* worldofwarcraft.com both had the splash page. Just like they both did for SC2, and both had something for WotLK. It is up to Blizzard what they put there, not you.

[Renata]

In fact, if you read the Diablo 3 official site, they're advertising for several more jobs associated with Diablo 3. It's not like they are pulling massive people off World of Warcraft to work on Diablo 3. They put together a core team long ago (completely unbeknownst to all ... nobody noticed a sudden lack of people working on WoW, did they?) and are adding to it.

Obviously you haven't worked in a computer development firm. Separate teams generally work on separate products. There will be a Diablo 3 team as well as a World of Warcraft team. In fact, the team of people working on patches and development and maintenance of the current game are almost certainly not the same group of people currently working on WOTLK. There may be some minor overlap, but the group working on maintenance and the group working on new projects, even of the same product, are almost never the same people. When a computer project moves from development (creation) to production (publication on the live servers), it generally shifts to an entirely different team of people.

As others said above, Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft are different games. Yes, there will be some people (like me) who will probably shuffled WoW aside for a little while and play Diablo 3, but I'll be back to WoW and still be involved in my guild. But people do that all the time NOW for different games. I know plenty of people who take time off from WoW to play LOTRO, or Conan, or GTA 4. Half our guild disappeared for almost three weeks playing Team Fortress 2 when that first came out, but pretty much everyone came back, though there are still TF2 playtimes and such.

WoW survives people taking vacations from the game, for whatever reason.

D3 is going to have the same gameplay and group dynamics as D2 had -- options to play single player, closed games, or open games with other people. I almost always played D2 in private, password-protected closed games with just my husband, but if I was having trouble taking a level boss I'd just enter some random game with names like "die baal die", join up, kill the boss, and get on with it. It's not a format that encourages a lot of deep social interaction. Socially, it is a totally different game. Totally different.

It's not an MMORPG. In fact, had Blizzard turned D3 into an MMORPG, I would have accused them of massive stupidity because it would be cannibalizing their own player base.

I loved Diablo 2 and am really looking forward to Diablo 3. I've already warned my podcast co-host he may have to find a guest host for a couple of weeks. :D

...Ren

[WatcherZero]

oh by the way its now confirmed that Hydra was diablo, one of the screenshots of the cinematic on display at the show was labelled "Hydra frame 183". guess that means their still working on that new mmo then.

So now: Worldofwarcraft 2 or world of starcraft?

[Xlorep DarkHelm]

My money's on a StarCraft MMO. Blizz already has hinted at there being several more expansions for WoW itself, replacing WoW with WoW 2 would seem... contradictory for that. However a StarCraft MMO could seriously do very well for itself, place Blizz on the map for having a sci-fi based MMO, and hopefully they could take some of the better ideas of previous Sci-Fi MMOs, and fuse them together, then polish it up with their usual process.