Well Starcraft fans, GL & HF.
WoW is enough of a leech on my life in many different ways as it is already.

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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. -Marcus Aurelius, the true Emperor of Rome

It's bullshit, dear.

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My father was killed by a coward's poison and the wrath of Hellscream...! WHAT CHANCE HAVE YOU!!?

But a magazine said so! And you always have to trust magazine's after all why would they print lies? I mean all gaming magazine's do play through the whole game ya know, and not just the opening 10 hours. FFXII's flawless scores are totally based on the epicness of the whole game not that first 10 hours where it's at it's best before it becomes boring horseshit!

Obligatory "Aldruis is a tool" sentence.

Oh yeah, the anonymous source was me.

And it's a lie.

I agree.

That aldruis is such a tool. His attitude is completely screwed up. The way he thinks he's better than everyone!!

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My father was killed by a coward's poison and the wrath of Hellscream...! WHAT CHANCE HAVE YOU!!?

This is still 100% rumor.

Another magazine just a week ago said it was a RTS, and even gave details into the races and new classes.

This one this week says it is a MMO, and didn't even have the decency to make up fake details.

We will not find out what it really is till it is announced, and considering Korea is the location of the announcement, then my guess is it will be an RTS. MMOs are also huge in Korea, but do not have the following the StarCraft RTS has...

Starcraft MMORPG -> I get very, very, very angry.
Starcraft RTS -> I congratulate Starcraft Fans and consider buying it.
Warcraft RTS -> I pass out in happiness.
Warcraft Single-Player RPG -> Same as above.
Diablo MMO -> I cry.
Diablo RTS -> WTF?
Diablo Single-Player RPG -> I'd kiss any Blizzard Employee's feet if asked.

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Co-creator of UFS, a joint urban fantasy setting.

I would do exactly the same.

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What was I thinking?
Pick-up sticks?
Maybe we could settle down together? Hmmm.
At least I stopped short of proposing.
Shani deserves someone normal.
Someone who will care for her, not wander the world risking his neck for a handful of coin.
I have no right to put her and Alvin in that position.
I'm a Witcher.
And sometimes I miss them... her. ~Geralt Of Rivia, White wolf.

I haven't seen the other magazine's details. And I know htis is 100% rumor, I just thought it would be interesting to see all of your reactions.

My reactions would pretty much be the same but with Diablo on top, i like RPG´s better and Dark Fantsay > Sci fi.

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Warlock, Lord of Scrolls of Lore: Shut up, Timolas

The order had nothing to do with my reactions.

Starcraft was up on the top because it was the matter of discussion, I wanted to start with it.

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Co-creator of UFS, a joint urban fantasy setting.

/agree

True, but I don't want another Diablo. Diablo is over, it had a great meaningful ending that any sequel by way of merely existing would take away from.

That, and the core team of its inception aren't there anymore. We'd probably get more Diablo from Hellgate: London than a Diablo 3.

I'd love a proper Warcraft RPG... singleplayer, properly sized world with all the locations, most races are playable, able to choose any faction to join, realistic AI, realistic fighting, not much of a large level scale for max realism.

Which will never happen and is asking for way too much.
That however, is my dream. I'd roll a High Elven Ranger, join the Scarlet Crusade with whatever it takes.

Another Diablo game I wouldn't particularly be interested in, I only ever played Diablo 1 which was good fun but that's it. Starcraft was great, and as long as it aint another MMO I don't mind what comes next as long as it plays on PC.

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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. -Marcus Aurelius, the true Emperor of Rome

Go freaking play 2.

The best RPG ever if you don't count Final Fantasies.

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Co-creator of UFS, a joint urban fantasy setting.

That's too much and too open ended. A MMO game with infinite story lines would never be completed or started, ever.

I miss traditional RPGs, even Action RPGs. I'd kill for a character driven WarCraft game. I've even designed a few myself. WarCraft needs new heroes and characters that aren't dragons or only found in books.

Edit: and it's very feasbile that the Blizzard Console team could be making a WarCraft PS3/360 game. But my bet is that they are making a new IP, a spokesperson said something to that effect, I do believe.

Except one little item. The destruction of the Worldstone has created untold possibilities and the Diablo Novels open such a possibility. Read Moon of the Spider which takes place AFTER the Worldstone was destroyed for more details.

Remember, you never did destroy Baal's soulstone....

I've read all the novels, and I find them tedious and generally have little if anything to do with the Diablo story.

We've been over this all before.

Blizzard already said that they would like to do more Diablo games, i don´t think they ever intended to finish the storyline with LoD, especially considering the actual purpose of the Worldstone that was revealed in the latest Diablo novel.

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Warlock, Lord of Scrolls of Lore: Shut up, Timolas

I'm only guessing here, but I think I said I know it would never happen and it's just my dream at the bottom of my post.
Also, I wouldn't want it to be MMO, like I had said in the same post, singleplayer. Oblivion style, but without some of Oblivion's more frustrating points.

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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. -Marcus Aurelius, the true Emperor of Rome

I know its your dream. And I meant an MMO-styled game (wherein you could choose your race, faction, etc in an almost infinite combination of possibilties).

If by "revealed" you mean "invented."

Yes i do, which is not a bad thing.

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Warlock, Lord of Scrolls of Lore: Shut up, Timolas

I still say the StarCraft universe is not developed enough for a MMORPG. I mean, what do they have? One game, one expansion, one canceled game (Ghost), and like 7 books - most of which are just friggin' novelizations of the first game, expansion, or Ghost (or else absolutely terrible). That's just not enough. 90% of the game world would be completely new content. You lose that "Oh look! It's Thrall! I remember him from WarCraft 3!" type of appeal since you've only got like maybe 10 recognizable characters and maybe 4 or 5 planets.

Also, how do you set this up in terms of playable races? You can be a terran, protoss or zerg... and? Is that it? StarCraft doesn't have a bazillion races like WarCraft does. I mean, *maybe* Blizzard would want to keep it simple, but I don't know, it just doesn't seem ready.

Aside from that, people have been bitching for a StarCraft RTS for ages. Considering when this project probably began, Blizzard most likely wouldn't have known at the time how successful WoW would be. It would have been a very risky move to make ANOTHER MMORPG, especially while your first one is still running strong.

In any case, isn't this being announced at a RTS competition? It just doesn't seem to make sense to me that they would pick this event to announce a MMORPG, considering 100% of the people there are going to be RTS fans (and it's Korea, so 100% of the people will likely be StarCraft fans too ). I call BS on CVG.

Edit: of course, don't get me wrong. I like the *idea* of a SC MMORPG.. I just don't think now is the right time for it.

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