Blizzard Co-founder Frank Pearce was on hand at Blizzcon to answer quite a few questions from the IncGamers team. Wandering Goblin's Pig conducted the interview which covers WoW, Diablo 2, SC2 and everything Blizzard related.
Frank commented on the BlizzCon event itself, how they prepare games for events like these, the MMO-inspiration in Diablo 3, WotLK Launch details, D3 development history and philosophy.
In addition to this, we get a few minimal comments on the FOURTH Blizzard project, and that StarCraft II will get the "Eye of Sauron" focused on the game development after WotLK launches. Just like Sigaty said in a previous interview at StarCraftWire.net, Battle.net is the great focus, together with Single Player, as the multiplayer aspect is more or less nailed. This is naturally also good news for Diablo 3, which will be heavily centred on co-op and Battle.net. Through the Battle.net we'll also see achievements at launch of the games, and he denies any current plans of Battle.net fees.
From the classic RPG to its mobile adaptation, let's rank every Diablo game from worst to best.
Finally some love for diablo 3, I completely agree with its placing! Very nice coop on the ps3 back in the day, but solo was a good grind as well, very enjoyable.
The only thing that irked me was buying the complete or ultimate edition or whatever and suddenly introducing a dlc that's not included.
Diablo 3 > Diablo 2. I tried D2 after playing D3 many times and didn't like that nearly as much as 3.
Leading domestic game companies have entered into an unprecedented competition to win orders for Starcraft, Blizzard's representative IP (intellectual property).
Weird MS is letting go of a good IP. I don’t mind it but hopefully the best dev wins and I’m not sure who that is outbid those.
What they are bidding for are exclusive rights to develop the IP. Microsoft/blizzard is essentially licensing it out to the highest bidder, not selling the IP.
I wonder if we'll see Starcraft Ghost come out of this. And if we do, I wonder if it'll be a free-to-play gacha game.
Given the potential developers, looks inevitable there will be free to play gacha versions. But given south korea’s love for starcraft there would be one that is inline with starcraft 1&2.
Might want to expect some sort of backdoor cheat that only south koreans know of lol 🤣
World of Warcraft developers discuss the game's decades-long lifepsan and why the game continues to be the biggest MMO ever.
WoW is such a LOTRO copy... :P
It appears that Blizzard has been tempted by power after all. Lets just hope they don't call thier next project "The one ring" or "Invasion of Middle-Earth" or we're all in trouble...
awesome
I recognise him.
Interesting interview. D3 history is great.
It's almost a sure bet that people will be paying for battle.net in some way. Shame.