Rumor from The Net: Could Blizzard's Titan Be A Halo MMO?

G4TV doesn't usually post rumors and theories on TheFeed but sometimes it's fun to shamelessly wonder. Gaming podcast Legendary on GameBreaker.tv has a very interesting theory.

[ddelella]

Microsoft owns the rights to all future Halo title releases. There is 100% no chance that Blizzard is creating a Halo MMO. I would not mind seeing a MMO FPS come from the minds that made Halo but it won't be Halo. Besides Activision would probably want like $20 a month for a subscription fee, greedy a**holes.

[thehitman]

Ya but u dont know if MS got blizzard to make it for them which is possible since MS and Activision are in bed together. In the end though I dont see it happening blizzard has better profile games to work with then to make a Halo MMO.

[karl]

exactly... halo as awesome as it is

i just dont see it as an MMO ... what would be the classes? or skills...

everyone shooting.. just sounds boring

well i would like it if it was a first person MMO .. that would be interesting

[Chris399]

I'm not sure where people get off thinking that Blizzard are some noble developers who wouldn't sell their talents to the highest bidder. Talented, heck yeah. But you have only to look at WoW, which is the most successful, money-milking machine in the industry (next to Cityville) and realize that ethics don't mean much. They have perfected the milking of their customers, it's almost an art form. They have legions of subscribers and from a design standpoint do whatever they want (check out the QQing post Cata - yet still the WoW faithful, are faithful - that's one Hell of a brand they've built).

They're in it to make money. Period.

Let's review what we know. A bunch of old Titan devs WENT to Blizzard, the new Blizz MMO is called TITAN. Activision + MS = BFF.

I'm not into sci-fi MMOs (Star Wars being a possible exception), so I don't care much either way. But to utterly dismiss the possibility that this could happen is a bit blind to reality. MS can easily licence the IP to Blizz for the game, it's not as complicated as people are making it out to be.

[captain-obvious]

Blizzard making a Halo MMO

lol
thats funny

[RockmanII7]

Why does everyone say that MS and Acti are in bed together? Only thing Acti has done for MS is give them timed exclusive DLC for one game series.

[JsonHenry]

I just puked in my mouth a little.

[NYC_Gamer]

i thought this rumor is true since halo is owned by MS

[NYC_Gamer]

i mean doubt

[awi5951]

Well blizzard totally ripped off Warhammer to make World of Warcraft they may just rip off Halo lol.

[BlackTar187]

You mean ripped of Warhammer to make Warcraft not World of Warcraft.

If thats what you meant i agree Warhammer and Warhammer 40k are so awesome

[Bigpappy]

No! Next question.

[JohnnyMann420]

Impossible, not only for the fact that MS owns the title "Halo" but also impossible because Blizz said themselves that this was a new IP.

New IP = not old IP simple as that.

[BYE]

What a joke, of course not. They have way too high design standards to mess with Halo.

Even if Activision licensed it from MS, Halo as a franchise is not worthy for Blizzard to make an MMO out of it.

[Roozium]

Yeah, Halo is such a bad game. Oh wait, I lied.

[BYE]

I'm not saying it's a bad game, but the design of it is horrible and not original at all.

It just doesn't live up to Blizzard's quality standards.

[hudsoniscool]

probably never played the games or read the books. the halo universe is huge deffinatly could be a mmo.

[SixZeroFour]

yup...an mmofps like MAG but i dont think it could do an mmorpg like WoW

an mmo fps could be made, i mean look at the character sets

Humans side
-marines
-odst
-spartans III (cause they are weaker and mass produced)
-(possibly) spartan II, but unlikely

covenant side (no grunts, too weak)
-jackels/skirmishers
-elites
-brutes
-(possibly) drones, but also too weak, although a person could prolly control a drone more smarter

prolly even the floods
-the big guys that explode and carry the little peanuts
-the jumpers
-the runners

there are definitely a lot of classes to choose from and each one could prolly do a separate thing

[SuperStrokey1123]

Looks like the one dude is wearing make up...

[BumpFrankie]

This could happen

[NateCole]

If anything. I think it will be a SC MMO using the assets from the Starcraft Ghost.

[ATi_Elite]

It's possible that Microsoft who owns the Halo IP could have paid Blizzard (the best MMO DEVS in the business) to make a Halo MMO.

It's also possible that Beyonce and Megan Fox are my sex slaves and Bin Laden sleeps in my basement, his Xbox Live screen name is Kabooomy by the way and he sucks at Black Ops.

Blizzard is god awful busy with Heart of the Swarm and Diablo 3. 343 Industries is cranking out Halo 4. Sure Ensemble Studios (Age of Empires) for 3 years worked on a Halo MMO but good ole Microsoft went Casual and canceled it. Now the team has taken some of their No-how to Blizzard to crank out a WOW Killer for themselves.

[JohnnyMann420]

I love the loser that is going through disagreeing with anyone that knows this obviously can't happen.

Hey loser, stop being anonymous!

[Xi]

It's true that Microsoft and Blizzard were in talks a couple years back, talks about mmo's, but most of that was in relation to MS's DonnyBrook.

For those of you who are interested, donnybrook provides mmo's developers the ability to releive stress on servers by implementing P2P massive battles.

http://research.microsoft.c...

the paper can be found there.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

this video also explains the premise.

The concept of ai based off of player packets to lower bandwidth on a mmo server has already been implemented but donnybrook provides the same abilities for fps games while maintain higher accuracy.

So the potential of Titan being an FPS is possible, but there's nothing to indicate halo.