Titan ended development in the summer of 2013. Project Titan and Aftermath īlizzard confirmed they were working on a new unnamed MMO, however codenamed Titan, as well as a fifth game, which used the World of Warcraft engine for testing purposes. GameSpot also confirmed the rumor is false. It's an overwhelming process, but a process through which we excel. We've already stated it'll be a brand new franchise, which means the lore, art, and game play are being developed entirely from scratch. We have nothing to advertise for the new MMO because it's a shell of a game thus far. StarCraft II was announced two years ago and isn't even in Beta yet. Diablo III was in the works for years before being announced. Games take years to develop from concept to release. īlizzard Entertainment confirmed the rumor as false, stating the game will be using a new IP. The name came from the claim that Chinese online games operator NetEase had acquired the rights to make such a game. In 2008, rumors of StarCraft Online emerged. However, it was later clarified Blizzard believes the StarCraft universe is deep enough to do whatever they want to do, even if it's an MMO. He further stated that the success of World of Warcraft would make it difficult to create a StarCraft MMO because the bar has been set so high, and that it would be a lot of work. An MMO for StarCraft was not something that existed on a short or even medium-term horizon.
In 2008, Frank Pearce commented that while a StarCraft MMO would be "cool", Blizzard's game development staff were (at the time) spread thinly throughout the projects that Blizzard is working on. In light of the success of Blizzard Entertainment's MMORPG World of Warcraft series, it became common to question and speculate as to whether an MMO game would be developed for Blizzard's other major franchises of StarCraft and Diablo.