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World of Warcraft-oppfølger ble avlyst fordi det var for ambisiøst

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Det var en gang for ikke altfor lenge siden hvor World of Warcraft mildt sagt dominerte spillbransjen. Siden den gang har antallet av spillere og spillets generelle innflytelse naturligvis falt, men mange lurer på hvorfor Blizzard aldri prøvde seg med en direkte oppfølger i stedet for lanseringen av nye utvidelser.

Vel, de gjorde det, og dette prosjektet endte med å få kodenavnet Titan, men her ble utviklingen dessverre altfor vanskelig å styre. I et intervju med VG247 forteller medgrunnlegger og tidligere president Mike Morhaime at planen for en oppfølger endte med å bli for ambisiøs.

"We've tried really hard not to announce any games that weren't ready to be announced, or we weren't sure that we were going to release them. Titan is an exception to that where we wanted it to be our next generation, our sequel to sort of World of Warcraft. We took a lot of our senior developers and put them on this project. And I think where we really failed was we failed to control scope. It was very ambitious."

"It was a brand-new universe, and it was going to be the next generation MMO, that did all sorts of things, and it had different modes, and we were kind of building two games in parallel at the same time. It sort of never really came together. We struggled. The game was in development for many years, and we didn't announce the game, but we had talked about that we were working on a next generation MMO. I think that somehow the codename did get out there. I don't know if we released that or not."

Det er fortsatt ukjent om Blizzard allikevel vil produsere en oppfølger til World of Warcraft, eller om den planen er skrinlagt permanent.

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