Blizzard Not Relying on it's Cash Cow
by Mike D'Anna 
May 14th 2006 at 3:00PM
With over six million subscribers to WoW, and with no end in sight, it might be understandable if Blizzard focused all of their rescources on support for World of Warcraft. According to this Gamespot article, however, WoW is only one iron in Blizzard's fire, as they plan to actively develop a wide range of new games, for both PC's and consoles.Of course, there's no mention of what these new games might be, or exactly which platform they will appear on...but they're working on it, apparently. Which is fine with me, as long as they don't spead themselves too thin & allow WoW to suffer as a result. You know what I mean by suffer; long queue times, server outages, lag.....oh, wait a minute...
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Blizzard, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Fen May 14th 2006 5:38PM
Well, if Blizzard are bringing out their MMORPG for Starcraft, there will be a whole new species of the lag-monster to contend with in-game.
kG May 14th 2006 6:54PM
Why would you say that? It's not as if WoW is currently running all on one server. Even the item database machine, which is the typical source of loot/mail lag, is shared on separate hardware for every 15-20 realms.
The only thing which worries me is that money-pit Vivendi is sapping all of Blizzard's profits to pay their own executives' salaries instead of putting it back into WoW's infrastructure (and anything else down the road).
Lmao6 May 14th 2006 8:46PM
BASTARDS CANCELED STARCRAFT GHOST! lol lets hope they keep there games unannouced until their certain to release them... so i wont be heart broken like when i found out SC ghost was cancled.
Mat May 15th 2006 12:40PM
Ghost was a sinking ship man, I don't think you missed much.
aux May 15th 2006 5:45PM
Bring on world of starcraft!
boneyard May 16th 2006 3:57AM
i don't see blizzard starting another mmorpg just yet, they got enough other genres to continue in.