Blizzard with a new MMO?

[ferocity]

Lead 3D Environment Artist - Next-Gen MMO

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for an individual to serve as lead 3D environment artist for a team focused on next-generation massively multiplayer online games. The ideal candidate has experience modeling and texturing assets for a diverse visual range of environments. A solid grasp of form, color, and light for both 2D and 3D art assets is essential. The lead environment artist must have experience leading a team and have a skill in another art task as well (illustration, modeling, texturing, animation, or concept drawing) and be well-versed in related tools -- Maya, Photoshop, etc. The ideal candidate works well in an environment of peers who are passionate about making great games.

Source:

http://www.blizzard.com/us/jobopp/art-lead-3d-environment-artist.html

What do you think their next "Next Gen" MMO is going to be? Only thing I can think of is... no... it couldn't be... World of Starcraft?

[Greed]

World of Starcraft will never happen, and its just preparing for the next games like Diablo 3 (yes its not done), and future expansions for WoW

[ferocity]

Did you actually go to the link?

[BaboonX]

World of Warcraft won't ever die IMO, just like Diablo won't..

[KuRIoS]

blizzard recently announced that Diablo3 will come out after starcraft 2. Also said that they are working on a next-gen MMO where it's gonna be something unique and not seen before and shouldnt compete with WoW.

[Aznex]

Something science fiction like?

[KuRIoS]

- It's not going to be a World of Warcraft sequel. It will be different. We're not trying to replace World of Warcraft with this new MMO. We’re trying to create a different massively multiplayer experience, and hopefully World of Warcraft will still be going strong when that one is released.

there you have it

[Zokmag]

Can you pre-order it now?

[Maisteri]

you would have to be complete moron to pre-order something you dont even know what it is :P

[ferocity]

It's made by blizzard, and so far, I've owned every single blizzard product, so I would most likely pre-order it if I had the chance to, but I generally don't pre order games unless there is a benefit to doing so, which there wasn't in WotLK, so I didn't.

[naughtier]

heh, hope not scifi
Whats after wotlk , according to warcraft lore?

[stoneharry]

heh, hope not scifi
Whats after wotlk , according to warcraft lore?

I read somewhere after wrath of the lich king it's going to be the emerald dream. Not sure if thats true but it's a fact that they are developing it as in each patch theres more textures etc there

[cXm0d]

I read on WoWinsider that 4.0 is "speculated and rumoured" to be called "Emerald Dream".

As far as another MMO, I don't think it would be in Blizz's best interest to do so.

[silentnightwolf]

yupp according to some of the WoW guys they have actually been working on some Emerald Dream stuff but scrapped it all to renovate the whole thing to make it bigger and better. forget where I saw this but it was a legit quote from some of the software developers at Blizzard

[Scrubs]

Idk about Emerald Dream, its been there FOREVER, ill believe it when i see it.