Metafuture » Blizzard http://www.metafuture.com Forthright gaming news and culture. Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:55:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Vivendi To Wall Street: Prepare For MMOGalanche http://www.metafuture.com/2006/06/14/vivendi-to-wall-street-prepare-for-mmogalanche/ http://www.metafuture.com/2006/06/14/vivendi-to-wall-street-prepare-for-mmogalanche/#comments Wed, 14 Jun 2006 06:25:09 +0000 MJG http://www.metafuture.com/2006/06/14/vivendi-to-wall-street-prepare-for-mmogalanche/ They call it riding the gravy train.F13 received word from a source with the trust-inspiring codename “Shiznitz” that Vivendi, owners of Blizzard, gave a presentation to Wall Street. In this presentation, it was supposedly said that thanks to World of Warcraft, Vivendi has a cunning plan that will allow them to produce MMOGs of similar quality for $50 million and a three-year dev cycle.

And they’re going to do it with all Blizzard franchises. Which really means Starcraft and Diablo.

Blizzard, on the other hand, denies vehemently that they are working on any such project.

Analysis: If you want to work on World of Starcraft, send your application to Vivendi.

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