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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Blizzard’s senior VP of game design Rob Pardo revealed at the Paris Game Developers Conference that World of Warcraft was originally intended to be a free-to-play, advertising supported MMO. Pardo said, reacting to the impact of free MMOs in Asia on WoW‘s success, that “market conditions” forced them to realise that a subscription based model was the way to go.
At first glance, it’s nothing more than an off-hand comment by Blizzard’s Rob Pardo on the World of Warcraft forums.
But, if you decide to cut it into a thousand tiny pieces and analyse it like a slobbering SC fanboy, you could come to the reasonable conclusion that we’ll be seeing Starcraft 2 sooner than the second World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King.
No, it’s not a date. And yes, it could mean we’ll have SC 2 89 years from now and Lich King in 90 years.
My less sarcastic guess? Middle of next year.
Has EnoYIs ever posted? [WoW Forums, via GGMania]
