While Blizzard has a lot going on at BlizzCon with all of the games it has formally announced, the subject of Titan -- the company's unannounced MMO project -- was addressed by CEO Mike Morhaime, who mentioned the game is now quite a bit different from the developer's original plans for it.

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"We've been pretty transparent about what's been happening. We're talking about an unannounced project, which, honestly, [it's] a little awkward to be talking so much about that," Morhaime said today at BlizzCon. "What we found is, we've been working on this game, and we recognized that the path we were on was not going to yield the Blizzard-quality result in a reasonable timeframe. So we took a step back, we asked a lot of really hard questions about what we were doing and what should we be doing, and I think we've come up with something really great."Asked for how the current iteration of the game compares with Blizzard's original vision for it, he said, "It is pretty different from what we originally set out to do."The existence of Titan has been known since 2007 , at which time it was referred to as "an unannounced next-gen MMO." In 2010, the game was described as being a long way off , but later that year we learned the game was being referred to as Titan . 100 developers were at work on the project as of last year.In May, it was reported that the project had been rebooted and delayed . Blizzard issued a statement at the time which read in part, "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." Most recently, we learned the game, whenever it is released, is unlikely to follow in the steps of World of Warcraft as a subscription-based MMO . Blizzard already has at least one game, in Hearthstone, that is free-to-play.With Blizzard focusing on the new expansions for Diablo III and World of Warcraft , as well as Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm , further developments regarding Titan are not expected during BlizzCon, which continues today and tomorrow in Anaheim, California.

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