World of Starcraft -- It should happen

I agree...but however there is a catch
Blizzard would make money off this

Something like this could totally happen. Do they care about lore? Not really as long as the dollars are flowing in.

 

As much as I'd ****ing love to play as an Ultralisk, I don't see it working, mainly from initial reception. A lot of people I've talked with on this very subject agreed that A) it would be another MMORPG that was competing for their spare time, which they didn't want and B) another "World of-" would be the same as Blizzard outright saying "We care more about money than you, now."

 

They wouldn't have to name it that.

 

I'll vote for this after 10+ years

SC2 MMORPG isnt just what people are looking into right now, rather I would like to see peter jackson turn sc story into movie and watch it by christmas lol

 

That would be sick.

 

I think this is a great idea! And it wouldn't have to be 'World of Starcraft', it could be something like 'Starcraft Universe' or something like? All they'd have to do is work out the lore etc and it should go great! I know plenty of Starcraft fanatics who would *LOVE* to play a Starcraft MMORPG!!

 

Hmm.. I think Zerg counterpart in Warcraft universe are Undead, which is against the law of god. and let just say Infested Terran is the main playable character in SC universe.

 

i played alot of wc3, and i HATED when i told people that i played warcraft because people immediately assumed world of warcraft.

don't let this happen to starcraft as well...

 

that's your reasoning for why there should be no SC mmo?

 

No.

I think a SC MMO would be a bad idea now. As in best do a few games and do them really well then spread your staff thin and try to do more games but not as well. And WoW and SC2 are immense games, some of the best in existence in my opinion. And I think stick with those for the time being.

WoW is still making Blizzard a lot of money. So it's still worth putting effort into.

And SC2 will be amazing. And I don't mean just the game. We've already seen the game editor's capabilities. And really I think the sky is almost the limit there with what can be done. Well sore some smart cookie might make something so intense it might hit the limitations of the editor in it's current form. But as it stands it has a lot of potential growth. In SC2 and as the basis of other titles.

 

well creating a "world of starcraft" would be a bad idea. Because if they make a "world of..." they should make it very different than WoW.

 

Well then how about "Universe" or "Galaxy" of Starcraft? Also what would be mobs to grind on? And what about bosses and dungeons? Will dungeon be some high tech institution where boss is some kind of big machine or zerg hybrid made by scientists.

Also zerg would be hard to make playable. I mean what would be mount for hydralisk hunter?

 

i doubt a starcraft MMO would be like that, whatever you say about Blizzard, their games arent copies of each other. I doubt there will be racial mounts, 5-man and 25-man dungeons and a lich king standing at the end of them

 

Not copies? Guess what criticssaid when they first saw starcraft? A warcraft in space? And Warcraft is inspired by Warhammer. WoW is inspired by many other MMORPG.

Also mounts (or in starcraft case vehicles) , dungeons, mobs, bosses... are basic element of most RPG games.

 

Starcraft was called that in early, early alpha, before several redesigns. Also inspired by =/= copy of.

A Starcraft MMO would obviously need to be designed differently than 'most RPG games'. As far as zerg is concerned I wouldn't expect anything other than an Infested Terran as playable.

 

It would be nice to have an SC MMO but in reality we all know that it will have problems especially when choosing the zerg faction. Could you see yourself as a zergling? or maybe as humongous as an ultralisk? LOL that would be quite an experience. Unique and bizarre. Lets face it, there are very huge factors among the zerg that breaks the norms of a standard MMORPG. Basically zergs size, shops?, classes?, and skills. As it is, it may zerg doesn't share the world economics and politics at all. But maybe they will be dedicated enemy of the game it it would be. But right now the possibilities of a zerg faction is too vague to be considered human friendly.

If SC is to be ported into another genre I would like it to be a turn-based RPG or perhaps an action rpg like diablo...... hmmm, maybe I'll do some studying on map-making and make my own diablo SC2 (but I'm sure a major group of designers would already be on this by the time they got the map maker) There is just limitless possibilities with custom maps and that's one of the reasons that made SC and WC series great.
For me, MMO isn't SC's forte. But I wouldn't close out for a possibility in maybe after 10yrs??

 

I think that zerg would actually not be playable. They would be probably used as mobs. Maybe there should be quest where you can chose to infest your character? Also the current lore means nothing to Blizzard so friendly zerg are an option. It is gameplay before lore with Blizzard.

 

you know, they COULD remove pve and only have awesome pvp all day long.

Altough I want it more battleield-style gameplay (not world of- mmorpg, but you still get xp and upgrade your specific character) with massive maps like wow have.

well, bigger, since you would be playing at a lots of planets. And blizzard could say like "this week race X is att acking the planet z of race Y. race Q is on Z's side." and that week you could only play on for example, char. in a massive pvp fight (with, ofcourse npc zerglings and similiar to make it more starcarftish due to the eventual lack of players )

will take a lot of time to make the maps, but DAMN that sounds really awesome in my head right now, will look back later and check how it sounds then ^^

 

It'd be like a world war 2 online or Quake wars thing then.

There is no massive quests like WoW. Just a war going on, and you pick your side and your unit and off killing you go. Except this time there is 3 sides and not just 2. And wining is not as simple as slaughtering the other 2 races. Cause at times there would be diplomacy between the races. Could be a 2 on one situation. Or say for example the Protoss + one terran faction and the zerg and another terran faction.

We sure there would be mission objectives. But nothing like WoW where most of the quests can be done by both sides. These would be specific to each race. Cause a zergling can not talk to a human and a protoss can not talk to a human mostly. Well you get the idea. Instead of like in SC where you command the armies. In this you are one of the troopers and have to follow the orders this time.

And yes the battlefields would be spread over multiple planets. Each with their own buildings and terrain. Sure there would be building construction going on around you, but you'd have no part in that because you're a marine or a zealot or whatever. And I'd envisage that the 3 building units (probe, SCV and drone) would not be playable characters. But they'd be some nice support characters.

And you'd get to upgrade your character when you got a better rank/standing with your current faction or through things you find/steal along the way.

If something like this were to happen it'd be a mammoth undertaking. And I'm not 100% sure it would take off either. All I know is if it was done by Blizz it would be at their usual high standards.

 

I accept with informationlanets:
Korhal (Dominion)
Char (Swarm)
<insert name> (Duran)
Hyperion (Raynor, does not have territory)
Aiur (Ulzeraj)
Earth (UED)
Moria (Combine)
Shakuras (Zeratul)
Mar Sara

Weapons:
etc.etc.etc
Warp Blade
Storm Blade
Assault Gun
Laser Cannon
Evolved Claws