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Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime was among the members of a panel discussion at the DICE conference yesterday when he was asked about Titan. As is the company's way, he was coy about providing any specific details about its future games, but he did offer up a general overview of how it's being approached. "To break the mold, sometimes you have to start over," he said, Ars Technica reports. He pointed out that "some of our most experienced MMO developers" are at work on the new game, including those "who spent years working on the World of Warcraft team." Blizzard is hoping that years of MMO development experience will allow it to resolve certain issues in Titan, including some WoW has that "maybe because of the design decisions we've made, you just can't address." He went on to claim Blizzard is hoping to make a "completely new and fresh" game. "We're not trying to make a WoW sequel," he said.
World of Warcraft is stronger than ever before despite it being more than six years old. Somehow, we've known that Blizzard has a new MMO in the works for nearly half that span -- job listings for a "next-gen MMO" that was labeled "top secret" popped up as far back as 2007. Since then, we've learned almost nothing about the game; one of the most significant developments has been an admission that "Titan" is, as suspected, the new MMO's codename. However, that doesn't mean we're unable to contemplate what Blizzard's next massively multiplayer project has in store for gamers.
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