World of Starcraft

[Sevion]

Who needs money when you got free resources

But yeah... If I wanted to make something epic, I would make something that had no royalties and didn't tie me into a big company (referring to how Blizzard "owns" my ideas and crap that I make with Galaxy Editor).

 

[Slapshot136]

They didn't even do that for DotA.

but now they are probably regretting not doing it for dota i.e. dota is now it's own seperate game, instead of something that they could have profited off of with an investment

 

[Sevion]

The reason they didn't do it with DotA is because even if they did give them money, they'd have setup an insane royalty that the DotA team probably wouldn't go for. They've "fixed" that problem with the new ToS.

 

[XXXconanXXX]

Apparently Blizzard recently signed-off on the mod and is allowing it's publication, albeit with a few changes (World of Starcraft sounds too much like World of Warcraft for Blizzard's liking). I've heard that the creator recently got a job offering with Riot Games because of the mod, which is a rather nice turnout.

Can't wait to play it.

 

[YourFace]

MIZ, I shall explain.

First of all this isn't blizzard. this is Activision. There is a difference- Blizzard is a company that makes few but quallity games. Activision spams games. The reason why this pissed activision is because they are affraid of a new dota- it is a phenomenom- a small mod, with MILLIONS of fans, one of the biggest COMPETITIVE games. And they have NO CONTROL. You have told me that you haven't played SCII. I, as a player with close to a 1,000 league games played (and a couple of hundret custom games) I can tell you that the SCII melee is the finest RTS game I have ever played. The mixure between a city builder, micro and macro is just amazing. ( BlooDCounT <- SCII fanboy) Only the old Command and Conquer can be compared to SCII (because you have brutal battle systems there, the SCII is a bit too common)



My point is, too much work and resourses have been put into this game so that would be the leading competitive cyber sport in the world, so that some modders can abuse the ideas from BLIZZARD's WOW and shake the throne of SCII.

Or the shortest version-> Blizz doesn't want to split the SCII gamers, not until the final expansion has come out.

Warcraft 3 involved more skill and thinking in my opinion, Starcraft 2 is simplistic and doesn't compare well.

 

[BANANAMAN]

@Yourface:SC:BW > Everything else.

 

[Sevion]

Ah, I remember playing those maps we old ones call Bounds and those maps called [del]Dirty[/del] Tank Defense :3 Those were the days. I once spent like 72 hours with very little of anything else but SC:BW ^_^ Can you say uber-hardcore-nerd? Lol. No more of that for me

 

[Sim]

Apparently Blizzard recently signed-off on the mod and is allowing it's publication, albeit with a few changes (World of Starcraft sounds too much like World of Warcraft for Blizzard's liking). I've heard that the creator recently got a job offering with Riot Games because of the mod, which is a rather nice turnout.

Can't wait to play it.

I guess that if the creator got a job offering and takes it... we won't have any World of Starcraft (or w/e the name is right now) to toy with.

@ The 3 others above me

Hmmm, not wanting to break your party there guys, but this is not what's the topic about.

Let's keep it on this mod.