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The developers of Blizzard announced in a recent interview that the MMO game Titan, which was being quietly developed for 7 years, has been cancelled. According to online sources, the game was to remain a secret and employees were not authorized to talk publicly about the game. However, many shared what they knew anonymously and helped reveal what was being planned for Titan before it was unfortunately shut down.
Titan was meant to be a massive multiplayer game for PC, where players could maintain a combat as well as a non-combat profession. It would have taken place in a sci-fi version of earth where mankind has successfully fought off an alien invasion. Players would join one of the three factions, waging a cold war over control of the planet. The zones planned for the game ranged from the west coast of the United States to Europe, South America, and Australia, according to a source. Blizzard's plan was to make the game world huge, and to keep adding areas with expansions in the years after launch.
The main idea of the game was that players would hold a job such as butchering, engineering, or entrepreneurship when not battling enemy factions. It was added that players could even start families as it was informed that Blizzard had reportedly hired a number of developers who had built The Sims to implement the AI for a family system. Also, players would be able to choose from classes each with unique combat abilities- similar to Blizzards popular MMO World of Warcraft. It also had a bit of Team Fortress 2 style aesthetic to it, and player perspectives would switch between first- and third-person depending on whether they were currently in battle or just hanging out in a city.
Although Titan was never technically announced, Blizzard co-founder and CEO Mike Morhaime revealed that the project was cancelled because "We didn't find the fun. We didn't find the passion. We talked about how we put it through a re-evaluation period, and actually, what we re-evaluated is whether that's the game we really wanted to be making. The answer is no."
