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Anna Koselke

Blizzard's axed MMO Project Titan reportedly "cost the company $80 million," and was like Animal Crossing or The Sims meets Overwatch

Overwatch.

Project Titan was lined up to be Blizzard's "next big thing" in the early 2010s, but the MMO met an ill fate when it was canceled years into development - after costing millions of dollars and any potential work on other projects along the way.

Journalist and author Jason Schreier discusses Blizzard's scrapped project in a recent podcast with the Limit Break Network. "It cost the company $80 million, as well as six or seven years of opportunity costs; potential other projects that were lost along the way," Schreier reveals. "It was just a debacle for the company as a whole." The situation "said to Bobby Kotick that the promise of 'You just let us cook and we'll make you hits' is no longer true."

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