People always joke about how Valve’s games are released on Valve Time, but Valve has nothing on Blizzard. They’ve been known to take years on a single game that already looks perfect to launch, and yet somehow find a way to make it even better. They’ve even been known for cancelling otherwise good looking games because of the fact that they just don’t meet their standards.
It appears that Blizzards Project Titan, an unannounced MMO that the company is developing, is going back to the drawing board. Zam.com managed to get this statement from Blizzard:
“We’ve always had a highly iterative development process, and the unannounced MMO is no exception. We’ve come to a point where we need to make some large design and technology changes to the game. We’re using this opportunity to shift some of our resources to assist with other projects while the core team adapts our technology and tools to accommodate these new changes. Note that we haven’t announced any dates for the MMO.”
While it never had any sort of release date, many folks are speculating that this will set the game back to a 2016 launch at the earliest. That’s quite a long time for an industry that grows and changes every year, but if there’s a company that can do it, Blizzard is that company. I’m just a bit disappointed that we won’t be likely to see anything on Titan at this years BlizzCon.