Blizzard’s Next Gen MMO Titan Is Cancelled

<p>Blizzard has today confirmed that the long rumoured project Titan has now officially ceased development&period; After seversl years of working on it&comma; the team were simply unable to find the fun in what they had created&period; Blizzard officially confirmed the existence of Titan in December 2010 but not much was ever know about it&period; What we do know was that it was Blizzard&&num;8217&semi;s attempt to create a second MMO that was just as successful as World of Warcraft&period; Rumours suggested that the developers were attempting to give the game more mass appeal than WoW by using a near future&sol;post apocalyptic setting&period; The project went through several design and technology changes but never really seemed to get off the ground&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a recent interview with <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;polygon&period;com&sol;2014&sol;9&sol;23&sol;6833953&sol;blizzard-cancels-titan-next-gen-mmo-pc">Polygon<&sol;a>&comma; Blizzard&&num;8217&semi;s Mike Morhaime explained that that &&num;8220&semi;we didn&&num;8217&semi;t find the passion&period; We talked about how we put it through a re-evaluation period&comma; and actually&comma; what we re-evaluated is whether that&&num;8217&semi;s the game we really wanted to be making&period; The answer is no&period;&&num;8221&semi; He added that &&num;8221&semi;it was hard when we cancelled Warcraft Adventures&period; It was hard when we cancelled StarCraft Ghost&period; But it has always resulted in better-quality work&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Senior vice president of story and franchise development Chris Metzen said that &&num;8221&semi;the discipline of knowing when to quit is important&period; We were losing perspective and getting lost in the weeds a little&period; We had to allow ourselves to take that step back and reassess why the hell we were doing that thing in the first place&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Just because Titant is cancelled&comma; doesn&&num;8217&semi;t mean that Blizzard will never create a new MMO&period; However&comma; Morhaime did confirm that &&num;8221&semi;right now&comma; that&&num;8217&semi;s not where we want to be spending our time&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;polygon&period;com&sol;2014&sol;9&sol;23&sol;6833953&sol;blizzard-cancels-titan-next-gen-mmo-pc">Polygon<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;