Back in 2014, Blizzard announce that they decided to cancel Project Titan, a next-gen MMO that they had been working on for the past 7 years. However what rose from the ashes of the cancelled project is Overwatch, Blizzard’s brand new and highly successful IP that isn’t based around Diablo, Warcraft, or StarCraft.However it seems that following the cancellation, Blizzard was actually working on two new MMOs. Speaking at the annual DICE Summit, Overwatch’s director Jeff Kaplan revealed what Blizzard was doing after Project Titan had been officially cancelled. According to Kaplan, “We spent two weeks on an MMO that was in another Blizzard universe that we haven’t made an MMO in–lot of choices for you to figure out which it was. Then we spent another two weeks on a brand-new MMO set in another, completely new intellectual property.”
It is unclear as to what happened to both of these MMOs that Blizzard was exploring, but given that they only spent a couple of weeks on each, there’s a good chance that it was only exploratory and that no actual development had been done on them. We’re not sure if either of these MMOs have been officially cancelled, but considering that Kaplan revealed them there’s a good chance they might have been.
In any case if you’re hoping for more brand new IPs or an MMO based on an existing IP from Blizzard, you probably shouldn’t hold your breath, especially considering how long Blizzard typically takes to release their games, but it’s always fun to speculate what could have been (or will be).
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