I bet the game they announce is Starcraft online... I have a feeling its an mmrpg... or something close to it.

Dance Dance Protoss.

Zug Zug:The Trivia Game

Starcraft II:The same shit in a new box with nicer grapics(whoops that's Westwood that does that....)

Diablo Kart(with a big-headed Diablo!)

-Monkeybutt

Hehe; I like "Dance Dance Protoss."

My guess is a 3D, first-person Diablo online game.

Probably won't be it, but hey, I don't like StarCraft so there.

Seems I'v seen this same conversation here once a month since june. Anyway I'd say a 3d shooter probably in the starcraft universe. Or maby a crpg.

(Crossing my fingers) - as its last offical act Sir-Tech has given the publishing rights to Wiz8 to Blizzard!

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It's Starcraft Squads, a 3D first person action game not unlike Rainbow Six set in the Starcraft universe. You take the role of the Humans, Protoss or Zerg and fight through 10 missions per side. Log onto Battle.net for multiplayer mayhem with other hive-minded Zerg and flatten the squishy humans! They call it Role-Playing First Person Shooting or RFPS.

Only about a year from now, they'll realize the scope was too big so now it's going to be scaled back to drop the R and turn it into a standard FPS game with one race (Humans, of course) and be better "balanced". The release date announced this weekend will be moved back another 18 months until the game finally reaches the shelves where a billion screaming Koreans will snatch it up in record time.

Heh... couldn't resist again. ;)

--Dave

-> Heh... couldn't resist again. ;)

You're so funny Dave! Holy cow!

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You're so funny Dave! Holy cow!

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No really -- my sides are splitting!!! My intestines were just regurgitated from fits of laughter! All thanks to you Dave!

It's World of Warcraft. Apparently, the Blizzard Insider newsletter slipped out to a few of its subscribers early by accident. Blizzard pulled the page, but someone saved it and put it up here:
http://www.capceramica.com/wow/wow.htm

You'll notice it says "During a press conference today" and is dated 9/2/01, so it wasn't intended to go out until Sunday.

Sounds like something I'd be interested in, based on the very limited info, but I'm sure it's two years away from ACTUALLY shipping.

Looks really interesting. Thanks for the link, Jason.

Blizzard seems like the kind of company that could actually pull off a smooth MMORPG. You can bet I'll have my eye on this one.

Two years? Surely you jest. This is Blizzard(tm). Square that. Hell, cube it.

If true, it's interesting that they chose the Warcraft world instead of Diablo. I guess with Warcraft you have whole factions already set up.

Well, that, and they really have a chance to do something new with an existing franchise. Not that they couldn't have with Diablo, but not as much so. They would be expanding on what's already there, as opposed to going a totally different direction.

I just hope this game is a little more "innovative" then the general mud-like mmrpgs we've been seeing advertised since EQ. But I have a feeling its going to be a faster version of Everquest with Wacraft clothing. and when was the last time Blizzard made anything remotely risky? not that thats bad.... just playing it safe i guess... but even Microsoft has been a little more risk taking in terms of the games they are publishing.

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Microsoft is a pubisher blizzard is just a devoloper bad comparison isnt it? But yeah I agree that frustrates most everyone I think. I'm surprised there making a mmorpg because primarly what do you do in those? You bash monsters just like in diablo only diablos alot faster and less boring. Oh yeah and bah its going to have to be fairly different then EQ without all the failings DAOC and shadowbane for example. Its going to have to at least match-surpass them I'd think.

Microsoft is also a developer. A lot of their stuff is in-house.

Blizzard... a company that time and again convinces us that they always underestimate server load. They expect me to believe they're going to have sufficient equipment to handle a MMORPG when they can't get Battlenet to be smooth?

I'll believes it when I sees it.

Oh yay. Another MMRPG. Thank God. We sure need another one those! Woohoo!

Yet another place to put on virtual pantaloons and flirt with female characters being played by men, build up inventories to try to get more than the Next Guy, and participate in click-click combat. Yet more dull crap for ex-SCA members with with too much time on their hands, but this time from Blizzard!

Crud.

Despite my apparenly failed joking above, I would have preferred something in the Starcraft universe. What the hell happened to making sci-fi games?!?!

--Dave

To Dave, Not very long ago I remember how alot of people were fed up with "space marines and aliens" in 3d shooters and of course thats definitly something you would be playing. Also are several sci-fi mmorpgs in devolopment a several shooters a couple rts's and Independence war 2 just came out. I dont know seems like plenty of companies are doing sci-fi games. Oh and you forgot any jokes about them canceling it three months from completion because it turned out not to be a game "they wanted to play"

To Aszurom, wasnt Diablo II one of if not thee most high selling computer game of all time? I dont know I doubt they could be expected to expect that.

To Socks, burned out from everquest and still bitter I take it? Combat doesnt need to be that boring its just a tedious combat system. Also mmrpgs can be about alot more then what you describe. Also I dont think theres an abundence of mmrpgs just alot in devolopment I doubt many will make or make it very long. Oh and "ex-sca" whats that?

I just read on VE that its possible this WoWC "leak" is a hoax. The listed author for the Warcraft novel on the page is the wrong author. So all bets are open again! I bet you now its Pax Imperia 2002...(the game they advertised in Diablo). Or Shattered Nations.

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Pax Imperia is a very good guess, but i think they would have to buy the license back for it. Also, turn based, 4x, games are pretty much dead as far as profitability goes; (perhaps excepting Civ3, only on brand name at that). Although id like to think they would be interested in ressurecting the game their needs are more about generating revenue now that they have become so big.

A Starcraft RPG wouldn't be completely impossible; i think that of the two projects (they said awhile ago that they would announce two projects i think) one of them, in some way, has to involve Starcraft. Its also interesting as this would be very, in a way, Korean-ified. Korea is not just nuts about games, but MMORPGs are competing on a scale never before seen in a country with real life; i mean, articles have been published showing how Korean mafiosi run protection rackets and gun-smugglings -in the game-, replete with the sulty RL groupy girl friends and mandatory beatings if you cross them. Recently published Battle.net server statistics shows if i rem 300 total Asia Servers, 160 North American and like 50 or so in Europe. Of course this could all be fufilled in another Sci-Fi universe.

2nd project? Diablo the Movie. Why else would they fight so hard to protect the Diablo brandname recently?

> it's interesting that they chose the Warcraft world instead of Diablo.

Well, there's a lot more world fiction to Warcraft. It's just fleshed out a lot more than the Diablo world. You don't see a lot of that in the game, but it's there in the manuals and preproduction work and stuff. Not to mention that little adventure game that never got released.

Makes sense to me.

The leak could be a hoax, but if it is, I'm a bit surprised no one from Blizzard has said it's a hoax. It is the weekend, though.

All shall be revealed tomorrow, regardless.

Im hoping its something completely new. Just anything besides another mmrpg. Even an adventure game... just something other than those timesink/moneypit development of games... the mmrpg.

But 60/40 i think it is warcraft online.. or maybe 70/30?

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http://www.rpgplanet.com/features/screenshots/worldofwarcraft/

it looks very real now... hot damn this game looks awesome. I'm such a hypocrite... How could i doubt those wonderful Blizzard people.

This game looks way past Alpha... maybe possibly a 2002 release!

those sneaky bastards sure know how to hide stuff.

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