14 DAY TRIAL // One leading developer working on the MMO genre at Blizzard has confirmed that a number of veteran developers from World of Warcraft have moved to the yet-undetailed Project Titan title in order to help get the game creation process of the ground.
Tom Chilton, who is the game director working on World of Warcraft at the moment, talked about Project Titan to The Orange Country Register, saying, “There are people that had worked on the ‘World of Warcraft’ team that now work on where we’ve had like a slow trickle of expertise.
“Meanwhile, we’ve also hired people and trained them over the last four to five years to take the place of some of the people that have gone to work on the other games.”
The developer is sure that, both in terms of development resources and eventual presence on the market, there’s space for both the Blizzard made MMOs.
He added, “I don’t feel like there’s going to be a time where we just say ‘OK, everybody on the WoW team, pack it up you’re moving over to the Titan MMO.’ I don’t see that as being a realistic probability. I think we’re going to try to staff up both teams and actually end up with two large, strong MMO teams.”
Blizzard first confirmed that it was working on a second MMO project in 2007 and a leak during 2011 confirmed that the company was working on Titan, although no real details about its mechanics or themes have so far been revealed.
Blizzard is currently working on yet another expansion for World of Warcraft, called Mists of Pandaria, which is expected later during 2012, and there is massive speculation among the player base that this will be the last big content push for the MMO and might also precede a switch to the free-to-play business model.