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Jobs Posted for Unannounced First-Person Project - MMORPG.com News

At first blush, the job listings on the Blizzard site for both a Lead Software Engineer and a Lead Tools Engineer on a "robust first-person engine" might seem to indicate that the Overwatch team is expanding. However, the next piece of the advertisements say "for an unannounced project". The ads further seek applicants with the expertise to take the engine across multiple platforms and with "previous experience working on first-person or other action-oriented" games.

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laxie

Murloc VR

Albatroes

Inc Survival game.

ThumbtackJ

Albatroes said:

Inc Survival game.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised. They have their RTS, MOBA, Arena FPS, ARPG, CCG, and MMORPG. Survival games have been 'all the rage' for a while now and I wouldn't be surprised to see them want in on that market as well.

GladDog

blueturtle13 said:

Starcraft FPS

Oooooooooooooooo.... Lets hope!

Scorchien

Wow VR

Zenslash

Overwatch PVE content.

Jonnyp2

Zenslash said:

Overwatch PVE content.

It has to be this, some kind of co-op map packs similar to the Halloween event.  There's no way blizzard would release another fps IP to compete with Overwatch. Although "unannounced project" sounds big, if that's the case I'd expect a spinoff similar to Destiny.  

SpottyGekko

ThumbtackJ said:

Albatroes said:

Inc Survival game.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised. They have their RTS, MOBA, Arena FPS, ARPG, CCG, and MMORPG. Survival games have been 'all the rage' for a while now and I wouldn't be surprised to see them want in on that market as well.

Yup, Blizzard have now conquered every popular game format... except for the survival genre !

It's almost certainly a survival game...

garrett

Not too surprising here. My guess is this could be leaning into VR

Rosenborg

blueturtle13 said:

Starcraft FPS

In the style of Space Hulk: Deathwing

CrazKanuk

Titan revived? We know that Overwatch was cobbled together with pieces of Titan, so maybe did they come across some ideas to make it fun? 

Aeander

ThumbtackJ said:

Albatroes said:

Inc Survival game.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised. They have their RTS, MOBA, Arena FPS, ARPG, CCG, and MMORPG. Survival games have been 'all the rage' for a while now and I wouldn't be surprised to see them want in on that market as well.

A Warcraft or Diablo survival game could actually be pretty interesting. Plus, the main flaw with survival games in general is a lack of polishm say what you will about Blizzard, but they know how to polish a game.

Melecon

I am not 100% sure that Blizzard killed Titan because it was "not fun" with this actually seems to play into that thought also, and here is why. You look at FPS MMOs these days what do you have? in a nutshell nothing major. With that the reception on these formats were not stellar in the least either. Enter Overwatch.... able to test the waters on a new IP in a relatively neutral environment with very little risk to an major projects. They are introducing major characters giving an avenue to produce story elements and introduce the audience to the lore of it all again in a risk light fashion.

Now lets flashback all the way to the beginning:

Warcraft 1 - Brave new world of RTS, story and lore wise not so much (was originally designed as a Fantasy                     Warhammer game)

Warcraft 2 -  Same RTS bigger Story, really made it there own at this point

Diablo 1 - Brave new world of ARPG, story not so much made it passable to enjoy the mechanics of the                          game.

StarCraft - Back to RTS with minor feature updates, with heavy emphasis on the Story and Lore (but really                       just a Warhammer 40K Clone

Diablo 2 - Refinements to the ARPG features, and heavy lore they finished the back story and made the                          world Alive

Warcraft 3 - More Story, but mostly it was the new engine that was on display for this iteration (as it was the                       same to be used in the next game)

World of Warcraft - this is the pinnacle of all the other releases on the tech side of things, and the most robust                                 adaptation of story

StarCraft 2 - More story, minor updates to the RTS formula, Major test to the release model and with releasing                      33.33% of the game with each iteration.

HearthStone - Old IP, and new genre. No real story needed for this type really.

Heroes of the Storm - Combination of all IP's with no story, start of a new Engine.

OverWatch - New IP Limited story to just to make it passable, New Engine and Tech in different ways.

* I didn't add all the expansions or any of the one-off irrelevant games.

They have a formula the Wow made them deviate from it a bit but seems like they are getting back to it.

With that the obvious path if they are working on the World of game it should be Diablo at this point as for the next steps in the story as they just opened the story up to bring back all the spooky baddies and lives into the cycle. StarCraft 3 they can work a bit on the more open ended storylines a bit more (and might have been there didn't finish Void yet) to flow into a MMO. Finally an Overwatch Project that will allow them to adapt and further the stories and lore so that they are able to branch it out into different avenues of game types.

Hope anyone actually reads this...


TL:DR
This is my observations and opinions on what the next few year look like at Blizzard. If you didn't read it you didn't miss much.

Soki123

Zenslash said:

Overwatch PVE content.

I ve read a few articles saying this is most likely it. I hope it is too, OW is such a great game, but co op is another aspect that would make it even better. The Halloween event was probably a small test to see it s possible popularity.

corpusc

Titan / World of Overwatch