Ditto for the new game from Bungie, the creators of Halo. Bungie has inked a deal with Activision to create a new title.
According to the company’s brass, the new Blizzard MMO is getting an “enormous” investment. “Remember, we have two enormous investments,” said Activision-Blizzard exec Robert Kotick. “One in Bungie and the other in another project at Blizzard that we haven’t given a lot of visibility to. Those are going to be entirely new intellectual properties.
“But with the recognition that the way to build them is take long amounts of time, lots of capable talent, an enormous amount of capital and you have to have a real roadmap for innovation and creativity. And I think that those are going to be two very good examples from the ground up original ideas.”
Whether it be World of Warcraft or StarCraft II, Blizzard’s games are cash cows. Bungie has created an iconic franchise with Halo. Putting in piles of money into both is a no-brainer.
Tezz
Saturday, August 7, 2010 at 12:38 PMit makes sense for giant amounts of cash to be sunk into this new title, the last thing you want is the mmo to pale in comparison to WoW.
WoW has been in development ever since its inception all those years ago, this new mmo has to be of the same caliber but without the 6-7 years WoW has had in refinement.
Roland
Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 6:19 PMScrooge McDuck is the best Disney character ever IMO
Matthew Dive
Monday, August 9, 2010 at 10:31 AMThis could be a double-edgeed sword because Activision cash could potentially mean Activison control. As the Infinity Ward debacle demonstrated that’s not always a good thing.