All Blizzard franchises will become MMOGs (Starcraft and Diablo too?)

Updated: Later this info was found to be made up, bummer!

World of WarcraftIn a presentation to Wall Street yesterday, Vivendi Universal said that all Blizzard franchises would become Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs)!

The direct quote was “All Blizzard franchises will become MMOGs.” All. They claim they have a model now to develop an MMOG in 3 years for $50 million. WoW cost $50 million and took 4 1/2 years.

They’ve split up the MMOG market into two parts: long session games (more than two hours per session) and short session games (less than two hour sessions.) They will also be rolling out a bunch of short session games under the Sierra Online brand. An example is FreeStyle, a pick-up basketball online game scheduled for 2007 release.

No details on pricing model for the short session games, or any specific titles for that matter. Source F13