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StarCraft II Vaguery
Undead Scottsman
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So at a Burning Crusade release event, a Blizzard employee by the name of Itzik Ben Bassat had this to say.
Not really something to get in a tizzy about, but I figured someone was going to post it eventually, so might as well get it out of the way now.
I'm a StarCraft player myself and I hope it's not a decade, and we launched StarCraft in 1998, before I'm standing here again, celebrating the next game in the series.
Not really something to get in a tizzy about, but I figured someone was going to post it eventually, so might as well get it out of the way now.
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I doubt well see StarCraft anytime soon. Blizzard is very happy about the amount of money coming off of WoW.
Sure, WoW is an excellent cash cow, but Starcraft II would bring in a huge amount of revenue.
borzing
True, but I'm optimistic that they are at least doing something with all those buckets full of cash. Be it Starcraft 2 or something else.
Please let it be Starcraft 2.
Well, I agree this is a rather irrelevent qoute, but I'll also that that it's kind of a dumb hope for a Blizzard employee to have if Blizzard hasn't already been working on the game
they just took what they had of SC Ghost and used that as a base for SC2
and they have been working on it in secret
And whatever happened to Blizzard Console (Swingin Ape)? Yeah, I know, Starcraft Ghost is dead,, but that was confirmed a while ago.
Because if there's anything companies try to avoid, it's more money.
Harvest Craft?
Yes, see Flagship Studios and Hellgate: London.
There's around four team related to Blizzard. (Not including like the cinimatics guys or small groups like that).
Blizzard Entertainment Team 1: After SC, development at Blizzard Irving split into two teams. One team made War3 and then the War3 expansion. Currently, it's unknown what they've been working on for the past three and a half years.
Blizzard Entertainment Team 2: Made WoW, and are pretty much tied up in all the wow upkeep and development (New content, expansions, etc. etc.)
Blizzard North: Formerly a company called Condor Interactive, they were purchased by Blizzard during the original Diablo's development. They were originally a seperate facility located north of Blizzard's Irving studio, but they were recently dissolved a seperate organization and most of them moved into the main Irving studio along with the rest of Blizzard.
Current rumour is that they've been working on a 3D Diablo 3 since the D2 expansion came out (2001), but repeated restarts due to quality issues (Quite possibly related to Blizzard North losing it's founders) is what forced Blizzard to dissolve the company and reintigrate it with the main studio. This way Blizzard can keep a closer eye on Diablo 3's development. This is only a rumour though.
Blizzard Console: Originally Swingin' Ape, they were purchased during the development of StarCraft: Ghost. SC: Ghost had the misfortune of being near completion at a time when the new consoles would have been coming out; so Blizzard chose to put it on hiatus while they decided whether or not to make the game for next-gen or do something else. Dispite Blizzard Console supposedly being a dedicated console team, Blizzard announced sometime ago that they were refocusing their efforts away from console development back towards PC's. It may be possibly that SC: Ghost will be made for PC's, but it seems very unlikely. It's currently unknown what Blizzard is having thier Console team work on now.
Unless they're getting inspiration from Harvest Moon, it's not the pinnacle.
Or I would work on it for a decade
People said the same exact things about Warcraft III. Didn't stop Blizzard.
... No, the Arena.net founders were Blizzard Entertainment vets.. I.E. guys who worked on StarCraft. (A couple were the guys who basically made Battle.net; but they weren't North employees)
And Flagship was founded by four guys out of 30+ who worked at Blizzard North. Granted they were the founders and probably a lot of their vision was what kept things oiled at that company. Like I said, that's the current thinking as to why Blizzard consolidated North into their main studio.
Warcraft 3 is really good though.
World Of Starcraft
Opinions LOL.
Personally, I think it turned out to be better than War2.
one of the several times i beat the single player campaigns (and BW) I was in Van Halen's Cabo San Lucas house yards away from a crazy steep drop into the pacific ocean
edit: found it:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=0&ll=22.873215,-109.916743&spn=179.977244,360&t=k&om=1
But its competition wasn't really War2; it had to fill Starcraft's shoes. And it didn't.
Blizzard's going to finally do it right.
Okay, that makes sense. And I know I've heard multiple people say that the Arena.net founders worked on Diablo, but I guess that was just an assumption due to GW being similar.
Sorry if I sound ignorant, I'm not well versed in Blizzard history.
Blah. I'd rather never see another Starcraft game again, and have every current copy of SC and BW suddenly burst into flames than see a modern day SC MMO. Maybe in ten years when we've finally moved beyond itemization, treadmills and grinding and can get a persistant worldstate that isn't about figuring out how to keep players playing the longest so they'll keep shelling out the monthly fee for as long as possible.
The train of discussion I was in was talking about how people say "They're not going to do X 2 because they're too scared of not living up to X" which was my point. People said that about War2 and Blizzard still went and made War3.
And again, Opinions LOL.
Will XP run it?
Yes; easily even. Just make sure to grab the latest patch.