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Dark_MadMax
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Reply #70 on: May 30, 2013, 01:43:26 PM

I knew  absolutely nothing about Titan so really  nothing changed for me
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Reply #71 on: May 30, 2013, 02:15:26 PM

There's a chance it could be code for paid vacation time.

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Reply #72 on: May 30, 2013, 05:45:31 PM

I have nothing to contribute that I didn't already say last year. This announcement really hasn't been a surprise for all the months everyone assumed it was coming.

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Reply #73 on: September 23, 2014, 10:32:37 AM

Blizzard cancels Titan:

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"We didn't find the fun," Morhaime continued. "We didn't find the passion. We talked about how we put it through a reevaluation period, and actually, what we reevaluated is whether that's the game we really wanted to be making. The answer is no."

http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/23/6833953/blizzard-cancels-titan-next-gen-mmo-pc

In other words, their game was wrapped around a dated sub model and couldn't make it work now.
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Reply #74 on: September 23, 2014, 10:34:03 AM

But they found the fun in HOTS?

I don't believe that.
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Reply #75 on: September 23, 2014, 11:03:10 AM

This was inevitable when they delayed it. Now I have no idea what's in their pipeline. They are in serious trouble over at Blizzard.

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Reply #76 on: September 23, 2014, 11:04:37 AM

But they found the fun in HOTS?

I don't believe that.

I don't think they have any expectations for HOTS anymore.  The dev team probably consists of Raj the intern now that the art assets are done.

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Reply #77 on: September 23, 2014, 11:07:26 AM

They should be working on Warcraft 4, and trying to make a new IP that they can sell. My concern is that the people at Blizzard right now (Metzen) are so fucking stupid they can't create a new IP that isn't garbage.

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Reply #78 on: September 23, 2014, 11:20:11 AM

necro'd just to kill it...

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/477385/blizzard-cancels-titan-mmo-after-7-years/

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"We didn't find the fun," Morhaime said. "We didn't find the passion. We talked about how we put it through a reevaluation period, and actually, what we reevaluated is whether that's the game we really wanted to be making. The answer is no."

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Reply #79 on: September 23, 2014, 11:36:47 AM

Confirming what we all assumed anyway.
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Reply #80 on: September 23, 2014, 11:41:01 AM

This was inevitable when they delayed it. Now I have no idea what's in their pipeline. They are in serious trouble over at Blizzard.

I hear there is going to be a Red Panda expansion next.. cuz ppl like pandas!
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Reply #81 on: September 23, 2014, 01:38:36 PM

But they found the fun in HOTS?

I don't believe that.

Heart of the Swarm is actually a really good RT... oh, oh you mean that HOTS.  Yeah, that's garbage.
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Reply #82 on: September 23, 2014, 01:42:24 PM

Fuck Red Pandas.

In WoW that is.

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Reply #83 on: September 23, 2014, 02:51:40 PM

Rock and Roll Racing 2 finally?

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Reply #84 on: September 23, 2014, 03:32:38 PM

Rock and Roll Racing 2 finally?

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Reply #85 on: September 23, 2014, 05:09:05 PM

Was there any real doubt? I don't understand why it wasn't cancelled initially other than for fear of investors fleeing en masse when combined with the drop in WoW subs and no other revenue streams.  Hearthstone has saved them there, and Heroes will add some more bucks when it's finally released.

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Reply #86 on: September 23, 2014, 05:11:43 PM

They should be working on Warcraft 4, and trying to make a new IP that they can sell. My concern is that the people at Blizzard right now (Metzen) are so fucking stupid they can't create a new IP that isn't garbage.
They don't need to invent a new IP, just to reskin another one why so serious?
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Reply #87 on: September 23, 2014, 05:33:38 PM

Fuck Red Pandas.

In WoW that is.

Pretty sure the existing Panda people can already be red anyway.

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Reply #88 on: September 23, 2014, 06:42:14 PM

Heroes will add some more bucks when it's finally released.

I mean, I guess so but it really is very bad.
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Reply #89 on: September 23, 2014, 07:24:04 PM

Funny. Magic players say the same thing about Hearthstone and arent wrong there either. 

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Reply #90 on: September 23, 2014, 07:28:58 PM

Hearthstone is WAY better at what it is trying to be than Heroes is.  And I say that as someone who thinks Hearthstone is a total snoozefest.
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Reply #91 on: September 24, 2014, 03:52:01 AM

I couldn't imagine working on something for 7 years of my life and having basically nothing come of that, that must be a bit of a kick in the nuts on a personal level. At least they were smart enough to say "Ok we're done", although I would be willing to bet they probably could of canceled it some time ago and not waited 7 years...
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Reply #92 on: September 24, 2014, 03:54:02 AM

LOL.

Eventually you get to that age that you realize that ALL the things you've done have been that.

 why so serious?

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Reply #93 on: September 24, 2014, 04:02:19 AM

I am having an eery déjà-vu here. Didn't Titan get cancelled a while ago already?

Didn't we even discuss this on F13?

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Reply #94 on: September 24, 2014, 04:04:08 AM

It was back-burnered, but it wasn't axed. Until now.

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Reply #95 on: September 24, 2014, 04:11:17 AM

LOL.

Eventually you get to that age that you realize that ALL the things you've done have been that.

 why so serious?

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Reply #96 on: September 24, 2014, 04:41:44 AM

So Blizzard has coming down the pipe:

-A MOBA no one likes in a market that has a new stupid fucking MOBA coming out like literally every other day
-A shallow but successful """"CCG"""" that may or may not have retention value
-The final like practically half a decade-delayed third part of Starcraft II which is struggling as an e-sport because MOBA
-An expansion for the ever declining cash-cow WoW that is so bad that even the reviewers Blizzard fed previews to can't find a good word to say about it
-D3, which basically had to be half-gutted and redone to be a good game

And the only one of those things that is even close to original or new is Hearthstone.

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Reply #97 on: September 24, 2014, 05:05:15 AM

Yes.


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Reply #98 on: September 24, 2014, 05:05:38 AM

LOL.

Eventually you get to that age that you realize that ALL the things you've done have been that.

 why so serious?

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Reply #99 on: September 24, 2014, 07:00:14 AM

Was there any real doubt? I don't understand why it wasn't cancelled initially other than for fear of investors fleeing en masse when combined with the drop in WoW subs and no other revenue streams.

The Vivendi buyout was going on right at that time. It would have screwed up the deal to announce that a big project was being cancelled.

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Reply #100 on: September 24, 2014, 11:19:36 AM

This won't hurt them, but they will need a strong new revenue stream within the next three to five years.

For any personal hit the developers might have taken for the failure to launch, I'm sure the money, benefits, and secure employment they've enjoyed and continue to enjoy will be no small comfort.
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Reply #101 on: September 24, 2014, 11:28:57 AM

According to Kotaku's sources, this is what the game was:

http://www.kotaku.com/heres-what-blizzards-titan-actually-was-1638632121

That sounds way less interesting & ambitious than I was imagining from the game given all the rumors surrounding it for years. Less sad to see it shelved now.
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Reply #102 on: September 24, 2014, 11:47:37 AM

Was there any real doubt? I don't understand why it wasn't cancelled initially other than for fear of investors fleeing en masse when combined with the drop in WoW subs and no other revenue streams.

The Vivendi buyout was going on right at that time. It would have screwed up the deal to announce that a big project was being cancelled.

Ahh. Yeah that'd do it.

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Reply #103 on: September 24, 2014, 11:47:56 AM

Pretty much fits with exactly what I guessed five years ago. They were working on a twitch version of an MMOG shooter.

It also sounds like they were trying to channel the non-combat portions of SWG, which is a cool idea, but would never work if they aren't integrated with the rest of the combat game.

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Reply #104 on: September 24, 2014, 11:49:52 AM

I had read about someone who used to work at Blizzard saying that the reason it was canceled was because it was too close to Destiny in look and feel.
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