Blizzard: Potential WarCraft 4 Devs Tied up for “Next Few Years”
Posted 11/24/09 at 03:53:14 AM by Nathan Grayson
Aside from one obscure little game whose name escapes our memory at the moment, WarCraft has been out of action since WarCraft 3: The Frozen Throne’s release back in 2003. Don’t take this world without WarCraft to mean that Blizzard’s completely iced the idea of a fourth entry in the popular fantasy RTS series, though. Just be prepared to wait a tick before scratching your orc-commanding, night elf-outsmarting itch.
"Warcraft 4 is certainly something that gets talked about on a pretty regular basis," Blizzard’s J. Allen Brack said in an interview with AusGamers. "While I think we're all excited about a Warcraft 4, in concept, [the WarCraft 3 team is] going to finish up StarCraft 2, and then they're going to work on the two StarCraft expansions that we've announced, so they're booked for the next few years."
And though he stopped just short of nailing the team to the project, Brack did say that "it does sort of make sense."
Another Blizzard game, another tremendous wait. But at least we can while away the, well, years until Diablo III’s launch with Torchlight. As for WarCraft 4, though... hey Runic, ever think about making an RTS?
Torchlight
Submitted by Obsidian on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 11:19am
If the Torchlight developers would just add IP-to-IP multiplayer (at the very least) and the game development tools to make our own levels we'd all be set for many years to come. After WoW Blizzard became a shell of the company they once were. They've got so much money and have lost direction because of it. What would you do with tens of millions of dollars every month in cash revenue from your MMO? ... certainly Blizzard can afford to churn out some games even if they are total failures. But instead they have been entirely consumed with this one title.
It's the one game that I wish would die for the good of all the other titles we loved to play by that company. I wish they would just forget consoles and focus on the PC platform that got them to where they are today.
It would be interesting to see with the overhead costs, servers, bandwidth, development, security etc and the estimated cash inflow ... side by side with just how little this company is currently producing. In comparison to say any other major software vendor. Blizzard has no reason for a wake up call due to gaming addicts and WoW, but I would hope the founders realize that they need to keep moving forward with updated titles or new areas of the market to saturate.
DotA
Submitted by SPARTAN-501 on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 6:42am
Defense of the Ancients: Allstars
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