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https://kotaku.com/heres-what-blizzards-titan-actually-was-1638632121
2014/2016 article about Blizzard's cancelled MMO Titan. I'm pretty sure there were additional MMO projects Blizzard cancelled before they were publicly announced.
On top of that, there's tons of discussion on the interwebs about why Blizzard would make a new MMO because it would just turn into the lauded Wow-killer. These articles and discussions could just be labelled speculation, but there's honestly a plethora of decent analysis about it... Why would Blizzard compete with itself?
Because they were afraid of competing with WoW when it was still doing well. Frankly I am surprised people are incredulous about Blizzard making a new MMO. All of that hype on those canceled projects? Hell I recall hearing about Titan at the time. That was research.
They will advance the genre the way only they can; with a pre-existing IP that is already struggling due to Diablo III being a lump of golden sprinkled shit. This will piss off a few people sure, but that is inevitable with long running series these days.
So here is the deal. They will do that Vanilla thing for people that are stuck in the past, they will have a ghost shift on WoW (unsure on timeline...at least it will run another few years with the same level of support) like Funcom does for Secret World, then they will be hyping the ever loving shit out of Diablo. We might find some of these MMO's were secretly Diablo all along or re-purposed after the fact.
Why are games like DC Universe and Star Trek made? Surely, either one of those could have been original franchises, but it is easier to bring your existing fanbase onboard while losing a small portion that will bitch and still possibly buy the shit anyway.