Last month, Ryan Winzen caused a bit of a drama as he revealed his latest hand-made project – a mod for StarCraft II, simply titled World of StarCraft.
Since then, things have progressed in leaps and bounds, including a new name for the mod - StarCraft Universe - a job offer, and the opportunity to meet the StarCraft II dev team at Blizzard HQ.
Blizzard writes: "After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we’re approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years."
How about you not hold Blizzcon anymore period. You fucking POS company. I really hope Blizzard would just die.
Microsoft has 'let Blizzard be Blizzard' following the acquisition of the veteran developer according to World of Warcraft's executive producer.
Diablo 4 storefront being a cash grabbing shitshow does unironically attest to that, kudos.
Okay i will be interested if they become old Blizzard but might as well be dead.
Shame most of the people that made Blizzard what they were, have already left a while ago.
Were you expecting Microsoft to hire everyone that had left Blizzard long before they purchased the company...
Microsoft has let the Blizzard company they purchased continue to be the Blizzard company they purchased.
Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra recently suggested an interesting concept that has sparked a debate among gamers - the idea of being able to tip developers after completing a game.
If I had a 100% way to be sure that this money would go to a fund or a reserve dedicated only to the guys who develop the games, be them designers, artists, programmers and so on, I could think about it.
But we all know that this 'tip' would only end up in a publisher's CEO pocket to buy a new yacht, so, no, I ain't tipping anyone anytime soon on this industry
So they eventually don't pay their workers and depend on our tips to pay them like the case with waiters!
Is this a joke? How about the big wigs giving up some of their pay for their hard working developers.
And this is another prime example of why games need mod tools.
So many people get hired right out of the mod scene into big companies.
I know a few of the lead designers on Battlefield 3 came out of the BF1942 and BF2 modding communities. Crytek and Valve have also hired quite a few guys from the mod community too.
Is a great story. Brilliant mod too.
Congrats to the Guy :) mod is fantastic and he did it all without breaching security of the program ;)
OH how I wish I could do similar :(
Something tells me he'll be assigned to making something very similar ...
See, Sony! THIS is how you deal with "hackers"!
Learn from Blizzard. They seem to know better about how to deal with this sort of thing than you do!