The Internet Reacts To Blizzard Cancelling Titan

After seven years of development, Titan—Blizzard’s not-so-secret MMO—was cancelled. Though the game was never officially announced, and though we never got to actually see the game in action, the internet does have a lot of feelings about Titan.

It makes sense. The cancellation is a huge deal, especially when Titan was considered Blizzard’s next big thing after the behemoth that is World of Warcraft. Nevermind the amount of money and time sunk into the game; of course people are reacting to the news. Blizzard fans can’t help but wonder what Blizzard’s future holds—and more broadly, what this this means for MMOs and even massive triple-A games in general.

It helps that Titan sounded genuinely fascinating. Lots of comparisons to Team Fortress, Destiny and The Sims abound. Naturally, many folks wish they could have played Titan—a few folks wanted the game so much, they seem livid that Titan was canceled. And some folks responded to the news with a virtual shrug.

Here’s how the internet reacted to Titan being canceled:

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Sad to hear blizzard is no longer making Titan. Still one of the best gaming companies of all time though! #blizzard

— Deathwatcher (@death_watcher22) September 24, 2014

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Why does everyone think Titan being canceled matters? Blizzard is setting it up for a nice BlizzCon reveal of a new game IMO.

— Rhéa (@ashelia) September 23, 2014

So Blizzard drops Project Titan and people are absolutely livid? It makes you angry that they dropped a game no one knew anything about?

— Jack Doumanian (@JackDoumanian) September 24, 2014

Blizzard's canceled TITAN MMO sounds like a mix of:

1) WoW
2) Persona
3) Destiny
4) The Sims
5) Team Fortess 2

Amazing.

— Alex Crumb (@Alex_Crumb) September 24, 2014

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It feels like it was another lifetime when I was constantly concerned about Blizzard releasing Titan the same time as 38’s Copernicus.

— Rich Gallup (@rich_gallup) September 23, 2014

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