Starcraft MMO? Don't Hold your Breath

Yesterday at a press conference at Gamescom, Blizzard co-founder Frank Peace stated that they are far too busy with their current lineup of projects to begin work on a Stacraft MMORPG.

if there was a development team within Blizzard that was free and available to create a StarCraft MMO and that was something they were really passionate about then we would certainly consider it.

But right now, as you can see based on the presentations these guys did tonight, we’ve got our hands full with everything we’re doing. So we don’t really have any plans to do anything beyond the StarCraft RTSes and the expansions right now.

But anything’s possible, because we have created such rich and cool universes,

Quite honestly that’s a horrible excuse.  Blizzard could obviously just hire some more people with the billions they’re making.

But, lets take look at what Blizzards current projects are and what the developers are working on.

1. World of Warcraft – This is basically an on going project with no end in sight and I would highly doubt at this point it would have any effect on any upcoming projects in regards to freeing up developers.
2. Diablo 3 – The rumored launch is late 2011 or early 2012, so this should free up some resources after the launch, even if they do begin working on an expansion right away.
3. StarCraft 2 – Sure they have 2 sequels on the way, but the game is already launched.  All the really big pieces are done, so making 2 more expansions is not taking up major resources imo.
4. Warcraft 4? – With SC2 just released last year and two more SC2 expansions on the way, I would highly doubt Blizzard is working on WC4.
5. Unamed Titan MMO – OK, this is a big project which can take up a lot of resources. I’ll give him this one.

So basically once D3 launches, Blizzard will only really have one major project left. You could argue the expansions for D3 and SC2 take up some dev resources, but I’m sure those teams are a lot smaller post launch.

I think Blizzard will definitely make a Starcraft MMO eventually, it would just be stupid not to.

Source: Eurogamer