Starcraft ghost a possibility

In light of the recent rumours that Blizzards' next-gen mmo may be a sci-fi FPS, I have put together a collection of evidence from the last few years that points towards Starcraft Ghost, or at least the sci-fi FPS that we recently heard of, really being under development.

We know that Blizzard are working on a new IP. We also know that they are working on a 5th game. What we don't know is which game the new IP applies to, apparantly not the next-gen MMO. The new game was temporarily running on the World of Warcraft game engine in early 2009. At this point it is unknown outside of Blizzard whether or not they have moved to a new game engine. (source: http://www.incgamers.com/News/15620/Blizzard-Working-On-New-IP)

At the Deutsche Bank Securities Technology Conference, Activision Blizzards CEO Bobby Kotick said that Blizzards new MMO would be designed to have "broader appeal". Your average gamer doesn't want to spend hours working out the best gear or rotations for his class, he would rather pick up a gun and start shooting. He went on to say "We love dragons, orcs and pointy-eared casters as much as the next guy, but let’s face it: there are a lot of gamers who just don’t dig the high-fantasy setting that many MMO’s employ.  It is possible that Blizzard may set their next gen MMO in a world that is interesting and appealing but doesn’t limit it’s audience by re-treading the whole “dragons and guys in robes” thing."

In 2009, 4 years after Starcraft Ghost was supposedly put on hiatus, the China Court Network rejected an application by Blizzard to register "Starcraft Ghost" as an E-Sport trademark. The application was declined because upon translation into Chinese, Starcraft Ghost becomes "astrology" ghost which supposedly incites feudal superstition. (source: http://www.chinacourt.org/html/article/200902/13/344450.shtml)

In 2008 Caijing Magazine reported that Netease will be operating a foreign game for Blizzard Entertainment titled "Starcraft Online". (source: http://news.filefront.com/rumor-chinese-game-operator-being-licensed-for-starcraft-online/)

In 2007 one of the lead developers at Blizzard stated that they hope to one day return to, and finish Starcraft Ghost saying "I still believe in that game and the characters but we were not able to execute at the level we wanted to. Rather than work on that, we had to focus on our other games. We're hoping one day to return to it."

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Posted On

Jan 14, 2010

Posted By

Aquaman

+1 Bring on Starcraft Ghost!!
This would be so cool. I wonder what you would play as though, I mean which Zerg unit would you be able to control. Perhaps you could even control an entire pack of zerglings in a fps kind of style. That would be original!

Posted On

Jan 14, 2010

Posted By

merlina

+2 RE: Starcraft ghost a possibility
Quoting Aquaman:

This would be so cool. I wonder what you would play as though, I mean which Zerg unit would you be able to control. Perhaps you could even control an entire pack of zerglings in a fps kind of style. That would be original!

lol it sure would, but I still hope its not a fps :(

Posted On

Mar 08, 2010

Posted By

quadrupleeight

-4 asdf
you guys are all fucking retarded!
this whole website is fucking retarded!
they were suppose to release scg on the ps2 years ago but they CANCELLED it years ago
IT IS NOT FUCKING COMING OUT!
and if it did it wouldnt be a fucking gay ass mmo
BUT OVERALL THIS SHIT ISNT COMING OUT,
SO STOP GETTING YOUR HOPES UP AND JUST FUCKING FORGET IT

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