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Re:Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon by andrewjrhill on Thursday October 31, 2019 @10:59AM (#21409532)
They could have just made a Diablo or StarCraft universe MMO (or both) and people would lose their minds and sell their kidneys to pay for a monthly subscription...
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Re:Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon by kick on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:15AM (#21409680)
They could have just made a Diablo or StarCraft universe MMO

It's really not that simple. An analogue in software would be "Ford could have just made a fully self-driving car."

MMOs are both technically hard and artistically hard, and even Blizzard has failed at making them in the past:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(Blizzard_Entertainment_...

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Re:Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon by greenshackle2 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:58AM (#21410156)
Maybe on release, but it's very difficult to make an MMO that people will keep paying for month after month.
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Re:Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon by RaiseProfits on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:42AM (#21409981)
Maybe nostalgic folks over 30.
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