blizzard all-stars – Video Game News, Reviews, Walkthroughs And Guides | GamingBolt https://gamingbolt.com Get a Bolt of Gaming Now! Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:00:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Blizzard’s Project Titan “Unlikely to be Subscription-based MMORPG” https://gamingbolt.com/blizzards-project-titan-unlikely-to-be-subscription-based-mmorpg https://gamingbolt.com/blizzards-project-titan-unlikely-to-be-subscription-based-mmorpg#respond Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:00:01 +0000 http://gamingbolt.com/?p=167518 blizzard_project titan
Despite a sizable loss of subscribers for World of Warcraft in recent months, Blizzard Entertainment is still surging forward. Of course, the developer is busy trying to craft a new experience with Project Titan, but that was recently delayed and most of the dev team shifted to other projects. When will the game be released, if ever?

In a recent investor’s conference call, Blizzard head Mike Morhaime said that it would be a long while since the studio is looking at any “new direction for the Titan. He did note that it is “unlikely to be a subscription-based MMORPG” and that the studio is upholding a “commitment to quality” by shifting resources to other more high-priority projects like World of Warcraft, Blizzard All-Stars and the upcoming Hearthstone, a free-to-play iPad title.

Till then, one will have to take comfort that they won’t be playing as pelts in the game with NPCs attempting to collect you.

]]> https://gamingbolt.com/blizzards-project-titan-unlikely-to-be-subscription-based-mmorpg/feed 0 167518 Blizzard “actively working on Blizzard All-Stars” https://gamingbolt.com/blizzard-actively-working-on-blizzard-all-stars https://gamingbolt.com/blizzard-actively-working-on-blizzard-all-stars#respond Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:08:45 +0000 http://gamingbolt.com/?p=135344 Blizzard announced its very own MOBA title, Blizzard All-Stars back in 2010 during BlizzCon, and since then, we’ve received very little info on the game. Blizzard, however, wants to assure you that it is still very much in development and that the developers are looking into several free-to-play models that could suit the game, including micro transactions and such.

We’re actively working on it,” StarCraft 2 production director Chris Sigaty told Eurogamer. “That I can confirm. A lot of the stuff that’s remaining right now that we need to focus on are the systems necessary to pull off a game with a different business model than StarCraft 2.”

“StarCraft 2 is a box,” he continued. “We intend to do something different with the business model in Blizzard All-Stars, something more closely resembling the other types of games in that genre, the MOBA-style games that are out there today, and being able to sell smaller amounts of things to players, the things they want.”

When asked about free-to-play systems involving microtransactions, Sigaty said that “those systems are what we’re working on right now”, but also said that “it’s still actively being worked on.”

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“We’ll go into more details about that in the future but I suspect you will not have to have StarCraft 2 to play [Blizzard All-Stars],” Sigaty added. “We’re definitely emphasising it as its own product in the future.”

Blizzard All-Stars is another one of those much awaited games that’s been announced for some time now but hasn’t seen the news a lot other than that.

There’s not even a release window set yet, and with Blizzard actively working on other projects right now, we can safely assume that it might take a while for the much anticipated MOBA title to come out.

Stay tuned for more updates.

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