Starcraft 2: it's official

[WizarDru]

So, the formula for every CRPG ever and every MMORPG except Sims Online? (And I'd say that WoW and LOTRO actually move quests, not killing, central stage, especially as compared to predecessors like EverQuest and Dark Age of Camelot.)

There's a bunch of MMORPGs that don't follow that pattern...they're just not very popular, comparatively. A Tale in the Desert, for example, certainly doesn't fit...and City of Heroes is an outlier for that formula, to be sure.

But I think the real issue is that making a Starcraft MMO would likely cannibalize WoW, rather than draw new gamers just to that license. For Blizzard to make a new MMORPG, it would have to be sufficiently different to justify the effort, to preserver their installed base.

 

[Kaodi]

Maybe I was misinterpreting, but here is the IGN article from April 27th.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/784/784124p1.html

 

[D.Shaffer]

IGN's got a new version of the gameplay video, now with commentary and some of the game narration.
Here