In a recent presentation on Wall Street, Vivendi Universal claimed that all Blizzard franchises were set to become the haunting grounds of flabby 13 year olds prostituting themselves out as hot babes in exchange for swag. Specifically, Starcraft and Diablo

Vivendi claimed that they will be making an MMO for $50M out of one or the other of the properties, with the neglected soon following. Sounds great! If only they'd told Blizzard!

From World of Warcraft's original game designer on the official forums:

Nothing in that rumor is true in regards to Blizzard. If I had to guess, there was some confusion between what Vivendi has planned for its game division versus what Blizzard has planned. While Blizzard is owned by Vivendi, their game division operates seperately from Blizzard.

Which is good news for those of us who think that Starcraft should stay an RTS and Diablo 3 couldn't make the MMOG jump without a serious degradation of the simple frenetic clicky-click mayhem that makes it such a delight. Florian Eckhardt

Blizzard says "EVERYTHING IS AN MMOG" (No they don't) [F13]

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