Blizzard has begun working on new IP’s for their upcoming games, but will not rush any new titles as there is many of such incubating within the developer.
During Activision Blizzard’s earnings call today the president of Blizzard and co-founder Mike Morhaime began saying that the time spent by the company is devoted to supporting the already existing franchises that it possess.
Mike Morhaime reminded his audience that co-founder Allen Adham returned to the company last year and is undergoing many idea’s which Blizzard have in incubation.
“We now have multiple dedicated incubation teams that are being led by some of our most experienced game designers at Blizzard,” Morhaime said. “I should say that creating new, Blizzard-quality games on any platform will take time. And as we’ve shown in the past, we’re not going to release any games that we don’t feel live up to our expectations or those of our players.”
“In terms of new IP, our pipeline is in a better position than ever before in our history. we’re committed to incubating new initiatives,” Morhaime said
“When we do bring new experiences to current or new platforms for new and existing IPs, they’re going to be ideas that are our teams are passionate about and that we think there is a large audience for.” said Morhaime
Blizzard rarely disappoints with a new release so even if they have to take some time to create a new big selling AAA tittle such as Overwatch with over 30 million players it will be worth the wait. PC gamers would be no doubt excited for the upcoming news surrounding this developer.
Source: GameSpot
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I’ve never liked any Blizzard games.
Blackthorne was good. Diablo 1 was good. Starcraft 1 was good. Diablo 2 was good. Starcraft 2 was passable. The Lost Vikings was fine. Warcraft 1+2 was good. It’s only recently with D III they had dropped the ball big time. And they are sinking quality-wise ever since.
uummmmmm…. what about overwatch? perhaps one of, if not the best fps ever made?
Sure, if you are 10 years old.
Not if you have the skills to just play TF2 instead with the big kids.
Overwatch isn’t an FPS and it’s not by any stretch of the imagination in even the top 50 best FPS’es in history, not even top 50 multiplayer FPSes.
In a world where Tribes 1, 2, even 3, UT99, 03. 04, 07 and even III, Quake 2, Quake 3, Quake 3 TA, HLDM, CS, CSS, CSGO, DoD, DoDS, DoI, Insurgency, RO, RO2, RS, RS2, even Doom ’16, exist – Overwatch is like 45 spots below the worst of those and I haven’t even gotten there i.e Battlefield and Call of Duty.
Thanks Ugh, you saved me some typing.
No.
You missed Warcraft III, but yeah, Diablo III was their first major miss outside of World of Warcraft expansions (Cataclysm – December, 2010 was a mess) & they’ve been steadily sinking ever since, with the minor exception of Mists of Pandaria, another WoW expansion, which was actually really good for a change.
Cataclysm came out in 2013. WotLK was 2010.
Cataclysm; Initial release date: December 7, 2010
Pandaria; Initial release date: September 25, 2012
Draenor; Initial release date: November 13, 2014
Wut?
Wotkl is 2008. How time flies by..
Anyways, yes I did miss W III, because personally I believe 3D just diluted the genre. I am avoiding 3D strategy games as much as I can. My secret wish is for someone to go and create expansion for Master of Olympus or Caesar V in 2D hand drawn graphics. I’d fund that Kickstarter big time.
Hm, 2D strategy, you say. Hm….. 😀
But yeah, it’s been almost a decade since rehashed Naxxramas & Ulduar ^^
I agree with the Warcraft 3 part, nothing more 😛
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i get the hate behind starcraft 2 but i think its a stretch to call it “passable”
Also, isn’t EVERY developer “working on New IP’s and is Incubating New Ideas”?
Technically, in theory, yes, but it’s always “news” when they actually announce it, since it’s actual confirmation of that fact.
However, since it’s Blizzard, don’t expect to see/hear anything about anything before 2022 or 2025, even, so it’s basically non-news, all things considered.
Hell, “Project Titan” alone took almost a decade to evolve into Overwatch, even though it was originally slated to release almost half a decade ago.
Incubating new ideas? What have we done to the language?
After the huge Overwatch success, i’m not surprised. Let’s hope it’s not the too cartoony/no blood/everybody smillin’ type.
Cartoony graphics seems to have become one of their staples, for better or worse.
I want a new single player focused rpg from Blizzard that isn’t focused on micro transactions but I know thats not going to happen. New Blizzard are too big now to focus on small fry titles that won’t earn megabucks. Fair enough I guess but I can’t see myself being interested in their games again. I’m just not that into multiplayer.
I really want a single player or at least non PVP game set in the Overwatch universe.
i.e Blizzard analyzing the market for the next years-old fad so they can quietly make a good game in that genre.
It’s likely going to involve creating new IP’s centered around MT’s, always online and treating the games as a service that will then be expanded upon or shut down after 4 years. The vast majority of AAA companies these days are about creating experiences that they can control and make more money from while also crafting them in such a way that they will not remain online indefinitely.
Hopefully not another Overwatch game! Didn’t have the slightest interest in that one, Only Blizzard game I didn’t really want.
Give us a Warcraft 4
Diablo 4 back to proper one like D2 but with path of exile’s great idea with 6 linked gem slots(mini game in itself just trying to get that)
What about a new mmo based on Starcraft universe, Keep it the same style as WoW but updated engine, Plenty of story material right there. 3 main factions that could be spread out into different ones, List is endless.
I would prefer a return to a good old single player game to be honest but each to their own, These multiplayer micro transaction based games are starting to get annoying.
they really need to make world of diablo or world of star craft.i could care less about their esports and card games.its more then likely another skin cash shop game.