Blizzard er ikke parat til at remake Diablo II og Warcraft III

Tidligere på året antydede en række rygter, at Blizzard arbejdede på at restaurere både Diablo II og Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos og fans blev mildest talt ellevilde. Men, der var intet nyt om disse projekter ved årets Blizzcon-messe, og nu ved vi at Blizzard faktisk slet ikke arbejder på dem. I et interview med PCGamesN fortæller Peter Stilwell, der er producer på Blizzards Classic Games-hold, at de ikke er parate til at gå i gang med disse projekter.

I Warcraft III's tilfælde handler det hovedsageligt om det konkurrenceprægede aspekt, som Stilwell og resten af holdet ikke er parat til fornyet interesse.

"The whole 'listen more than you talk' approach with StarCraft was working so well, we were like 'what do we need to do for the others. Right now when you read the [Warcraft III] forums or talk to the community, the map pool is so stale. Not only that, there's a bunch of maps in there that aren't that great, that just get vetoed every time for whatever reason. That was the overriding thing, please give us another pool."

"Then the other thing is Undead only really has one build order, it would be awesome if we could change the balance a little bit to help [people] figure out different ways to play the game. There isn't that overriding sense that you get with StarCraft where they're like 'don't touch it, the balance is perfect.' [For Orc] you have to have a Blademaster, you have to have the Death Knight for Undead - make some tweaks to some heroes so that maybe the other guy has to scout me and figure out what I'm playing with in order for him to develop his own strategy."

"That's the cool thing about StarCraft, the unit selections you make need to be scouted for them to be properly prepared for it, we want to try to achieve that level of balance for Warcraft III. That seems like most of what that competitive community cares about right now, so that's what we're dealing with directly. Matt Morris and our design guys are working on another pool, they've got it on a PTR, so that we can get some candid feedback before we say this is the official one. Hopefully very soon they'll be happy with that and then we can actually get those balance changes out on the PTR as well."

I Diablo II's tilfælde handler det dog hovedsageligt om spillets pointtavler:

"With Diablo [2] the big one is the botters and the spamming is out of control, [people asking] could we please fix that," Stilwell said. "Keep rolling seasons but maybe eventually be good enough at combating them that you see real names at the top of the leaderboard again."

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