Blizzard Drops Project Titan After Seven Years

After seven long years in development, Project Titan, Blizzard Entertainment’s hinted at sequel to World of Warcraft, will not see the light of day. In an interview with Polygon, Blizzard co-founder and CEO Mike Morhaime spoke about the game.

“We had created World of Warcraft, and we felt really confident that we knew how to make MMOs [massively multiplayer online games]. So we set out to make the most ambitious thing that you could possibly imagine. And it didn’t come together. We didn’t find the fun. We didn’t find the passion. We talked about how we put it through a reevaluation period, and actually, what we reevaluated is whether that’s the game we really wanted to be making. The answer is no.”

It is admirable that they don’t want to release something they don’t believe in, but the pressure is on. WoW’s number of subscribers has been declining since its high of 12 million in 2010, and now there’s no new game to look forward to, and that can mean trouble for Blizzard’s future.

Thanks to Jason Schreir over at Kotaku, we get a sneak peak at what could’ve been. The player would have a normal day job in a near future version of Earth where humans have successfully overcome an alien invasion. Different factions are now at war for control of the planet, and it sounds like the entire world was playable. So by night players have the choice to battle other factions, or continue their day job. According to the sources Schreir spoke with, it seemed like the plan was a mix of Team Fortress and The Sims. There were plans for cities where players could run their own businesses and interact and build relationships with NPCs.

However, there’s a rumor that some version of the game could potentially resurface. One of the mysterious sources says that a few members of the Titan team still remain. “They changed the code-name after that reboot. So the project that was ‘Titan’ did die last year.” Even though the cancelled project was discussed and recognized it was never officially announced, so it’s not likely we’ll hear much on its alleged reboot anytime soon.

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