Curious to see if anyone has undisclosed information or any information regarding this topic?
Will they ever pour their heart and soul into making a fabulous…new…MMORPG? Or is it just pump and go?
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they do every expansion
I doubt they’ll ever take a risk like released a new IP r even WoW 2.
MMORPG’s don’t work in the meta of real life in 2020
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err…
no sane company is investing in a new MMO now. might have something to do with 30+ MMO that kept poping up every year from 2006 to 2015 ish, nearly all of them dying within a year of their release.
MMOs as a genre don’t have a bright future.
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No.
MMOs are dead.
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Not likely… Activision won’t risk it.
And… to be perfectly insulting, the same people who designed WoW aren’t around anymore. So you won’t get Level 60/70/80 World of WarCraft. You’ll get more of what retail is. Because those who are at Blizzard now lack talent to forge a new MMORPG. For that reason, I suppose one cant fault Activision – they know who they employ.
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Probably not. Very expensive and risky. Activision is just going to continue squeezing every last bit out of blizzards IP and probably just jump on the next “big thing” when the jig is up.
If MMORPGs make a big come back then they might but i wouldn’t hold out much hope for it. It will be monetized from top to bottom since they will be trying to recoup the high cost of creating it.
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Sanctuary…
…a Diablo MMO.
I could get behind that.
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Isn’t amazon rolling out an mmo? New World.
World of Online MallCraft.
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If Runic Games ever announces development of a Torchlight MMO – that will be something to be interested in.
Camelot Unchained soon
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No, Blizzard is not the company it was. They will never be the ‘next generation’ anything ever again.
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I have no info, just my opinion.
I think Blizzard is too busy maintaining and updating WoW to create a new game. They have a full-time staff of employees working on the new expansion. Those employees don’t have TIME to start a new game. For that, Blizzard would create an entire new team.
That seems unlikely, as long as existing WoW has more subscribers than most other MMOs.
It’s an axiom in the business world: they best way to kill a succesful company is to create a new and better product. Many companies have died that way. Other companies stuck with their product and lasted. It isn’t logic: it’s experience.
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interesting. haven’t heard of it before… didn’t even knew amazon was into game now.
Having a really hard time finding relevant information about the gameplay… seem to be some sort of small-team survival-based missions with a bit of sim-city management (guess it still fit in a larger description of MMO). Kotaku’s ranting about how it mimic european colonization ( why did I even bother checking them…) IGN only have the trailers who do look nice but obviously represent nothing of the gameplay…
will see! May be the … 3rd successfull MMO since WoW? ( after FF and rift?)
I think that there is room in the market for niche MMORPG’s that appeal to a specific demographic, with the understanding that your subscriptions are likely capped well below what WoW has/had achieved. The thing is, that isn’t enough for the AAA game developers, so you will only likely see this from passionate indie projects outside of the mainstream.
The Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen MMORPG is an example of this sort of MMORPG project attempt. AAA game studios only care about maximum $$$ for shareholders and appealing to the lowest common denominator for maximum gain (just like Hollywood movies), so unless your tastes run towards the soulless, eye-candy, gimmicky, jack-of-all-trades and/or microtransaction genre, your only real new in-depth/passionate MMORPG hope in 2020+ is from smaller indie/crowdfunded studios.
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Sounds good to me.
The fact is that there is a healthy market for good mmo’s. A ton of people playing classic admit they do so because there’s no better option. The problem is big companies today are unwilling or unable to make a full decent game. They’d rather spend less and put in microtransactions and dlc to milk it more. If a big studio were able to see the need and fill it, it would be hugely successful.
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The King was never dethroned, he just fell into his old age, and started making ridiculous, and irrational choices. Handing out his treasures to every participant capable of bashing their head against a wall.
That’s how we came to have the kingdom we now call “retail”.
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Of course they will release a next generation MMO - WoW Immortal, for the new mobile generation of gaming.
I mean, you guys have phones, don’t you?
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In next generation WoW, the only way to level will be to buy a level from the Blizz store for $49.99. There will be no level cap. 
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There was a chance and some talk years back when Blizzard was having trouble deciding what to do with all the massive amounts of incoming monies (they eventually decided to simply keep it all, can’t really blame them), but now that Activision owns Blizzard, I’d say 0% chance, which will hold true until WoW is shut down or close to being shut down.
Only thing you can maybe affect is which directions expansions go in.
I also wonder if another MMO will ever be as popular as WoW. It come out at just the right time, when prior MMO players wanted something new as well as a big group of new players ready to give it try. Then it just snowballed, gathering up all the new gamers. Gaming was pretty much ‘nerd’ group and then , gaming was suddenly popular. I still find it funny how I was looked down on for playing many ‘nerd’ games in the 90s that are now super popular on people’s phones (obviously not the same, but variants on what we had on PCs in the 90s. Fun stuff for sure, just funny how society shapes the minds of so many and they don’t even realize it. Always makes me wonder further what will be the next shift which also makes me wonder what medical stuff today will be called barbaric in 30-40s years).
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