Surprise! Vivendi wants Blizzard to make them money.

I see that the rumour mill is once again in full effect saying that Blizzard is going "all MMORPG on the games industry" based on a slide taken out of context from a presentation to some pack of clueless businessmen. Regardless of whether this might actually be true (just look at the amount of backpedaling Gamespot has done!), I find it hard to believe this is coming as a surprise to anyone. There have been talks about Blizzard turning their three franchises into MMORPGs since World of Warcraft was released. What's the big deal? It's not like Blizzard had plans to create anything new...they've been milking their trinity of IP for almost eight years! Even if their new game wasn't an MMORPG, what was it going to be? StarCraft 2?

The real surprise in all this is the lack of any snide commentary from Matt Gallant, who usually goes out of his way to slag off the gaming website community when they parrot frivolous rumours like this.