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News are starting to pop up everywhere about changing game directors, new jobs and so on. What are they planning?
Maybe we could use this thread to gather information and stuff on Blizz new project?
Dustin Browder, director of 'Heroes of the Storm', have just confirmed that he is leaving the game to join a new project from Blizzard. The announcement came from the director himself and explained why he had to make the decision. It is believed that his decision is effective immediately. Browder Explains His Decision to Leave According to reports, Browder announced the news on the forum of Battle.net and explains he had already started with the transition process and has transferred his responsibilities to Alan Dabiri, the former technical director. In his post, he shares it is not every day a good opportunity comes and says "I'm going to take one of those chances to try something new at Blizzard." It was not disclosed what the new Blizzard project is about but he says it is something new that Blizzard is working on. It can be remembered that the director of 'World of Warcraft', Tom Chilton, also decided to give up his position to do another project. Reports claim Browder's new project has something to do with 'Overwatch' single-player mode. Director Could Be Assigned to Do a New 'Diablo' Game In one of the recent announcement of Blizzard, the company revealed they are working on various ideas with different groups to make the decision process faster and easier. This led fans to believe the two directors are working on separate new projects which could be announced anytime soon. Both 'Heroes of the Storm' and 'Blizzard' have not released a statement about the issue but fans are assuming they will do anytime soon. Some fans are anticipating that one of the two director is assigned to work on a new installment for Diablo video game but everything is still a rumor until confirmed. Some news claims that Chilton could be the director assigned to the game. It could be a 'Diablo 4' or a remake of 'Diablo 3' which was announced earlier but no updates has been given since then. www.itechpost.com
The game developer behind World of Warcraft, Hearthstone and Overwatch has begun work on an as-yet unannounced first-person game, according to job postings made to Blizzard's US careers section.
The postings refer to an "unannounced project that utilizes a robust first-person engine," and call for two software engineers with experience working on first-person games.
Right now, the super-popular Overwatch is Blizzard's only first-person game. Given how notoriously cagey Blizzard is with new intellectual property (2016's Overwatch was the company's first new franchise since the 1990s), we could well expect a follow-up to one of Blizzard's long-running properties.
Blizzard have previously recruited for unannounced jobs, with key roles in the next Diablo project advertised earlier this year and the year before, reports Gamespot.
www.cnet.com
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Dustin failed in hots and sc2 i dont expect anything good from him nor i think they ll give him anything difficult and important again.
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Don't hold your breath. Blizzard won't release anything until they are good and ready. They also like to use Blizzcon to mention new franchises, but since nothing was mentioned during this year's Blizzcon, than I suspect we would have to wait until next year for an announcement.
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I'm still waiting for Star Craft:Ghost.
Whatever game it is, expect the release date to be around 2021-2022.
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Yea I hope it's SC Ghost, so they can once again spend entire board meetings discussing the shape of the marine boot
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I hope for a First person Diablo 4 (Dark Souls style) or a Third person Diablo MMO
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Dustin Browder is returning to his roots.. Blizzard secretly bought the C&C IP off of EA and Browder is working on Red Alert 4.
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Makes sense to use the Overwatch engine for something. Just hope nothing F2P. And I think I could use a game thats not QWE. Seeing how Dawn of war 3 will be all about those Moba style skills.
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On December 11 2016 01:54 phantomlancer23 wrote: Dustin failed in hots and sc2 i dont expect anything good from him nor i think they ll give him anything difficult and important again.
Oh come, failed at sc2 is quite hyperbolic, sc2 is one of the best selling rts games of all time, still has a large player base after 7 years, has a solid esport scene and is still making tons of money for Blizzard. Calling sc2 a failure in really any respect is rather silly.
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DB designed RA2. It still has a multiplayer community with a competitive scene and community made ladder. RA2 is one of the few non-Blizz RTS games to have long term sustainability in the face of ZERO publisher support.
DB is good.
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On December 11 2016 02:55 FeyFey wrote: Makes sense to use the Overwatch engine for something. Just hope nothing F2P. And I think I could use a game thats not QWE. Seeing how Dawn of war 3 will be all about those Moba style skills.
What does QWE stand for? When I search for it I get NSFW images as the most relevant results. http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/QWE doesn't really help either.
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On December 11 2016 02:57 SlammerIV wrote:Show nested quote +On December 11 2016 01:54 phantomlancer23 wrote: Dustin failed in hots and sc2 i dont expect anything good from him nor i think they ll give him anything difficult and important again. Oh come, failed at sc2 is quite hyperbolic, sc2 is one of the best selling rts games of all time, still has a large player base after 7 years, has a solid esport scene and is still making tons of money for Blizzard. Calling sc2 a failure in really any respect is rather silly. Well to do some good selling with blizzards logo on a game isnt something.Nobody in korea cared about sc2 from the beginning and even idra said its a bad game, if the game was good why everyone plays bw now?Isnt this an indication that the game failed.Even as a single player games story was mediocre and childish.
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On December 11 2016 03:17 phantomlancer23 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 11 2016 02:57 SlammerIV wrote:On December 11 2016 01:54 phantomlancer23 wrote: Dustin failed in hots and sc2 i dont expect anything good from him nor i think they ll give him anything difficult and important again. Oh come, failed at sc2 is quite hyperbolic, sc2 is one of the best selling rts games of all time, still has a large player base after 7 years, has a solid esport scene and is still making tons of money for Blizzard. Calling sc2 a failure in really any respect is rather silly. Well to do some good selling with blizzards logo on a game isnt something.Nobody in korea cared about sc2 from the beginning and even idra said its a bad game, if the game was good why everyone plays bw now?Isnt this an indication that the game failed.Even as a single player games story was mediocre and childish.
It is still the best RTS since AoE 2 and RA 2 which is kind of sad and maybe a bit biased by me. The only real competition in my mind was Supreme Commander, not the biggest fan of Dawn of War or Company of Heroes. Think this shouldn't be a discussion about SC2 or a specific person at Blizzard being good or not. This seems to be an FPS and not an RTS (though it might contain RTS elements as a few FPS games has done in the past). Leaving that out of the thread seems the better idea.
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On December 11 2016 03:15 Yurie wrote:Show nested quote +On December 11 2016 02:55 FeyFey wrote: Makes sense to use the Overwatch engine for something. Just hope nothing F2P. And I think I could use a game thats not QWE. Seeing how Dawn of war 3 will be all about those Moba style skills. What does QWE stand for? When I search for it I get NSFW images as the most relevant results. http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/QWE doesn't really help either.
i thikn he means QWER, seeing as he mentions mobas right after.
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i think he means a game that uses "Q", "W", and "E" for special abilities.
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On December 11 2016 03:17 phantomlancer23 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 11 2016 02:57 SlammerIV wrote:On December 11 2016 01:54 phantomlancer23 wrote: Dustin failed in hots and sc2 i dont expect anything good from him nor i think they ll give him anything difficult and important again. Oh come, failed at sc2 is quite hyperbolic, sc2 is one of the best selling rts games of all time, still has a large player base after 7 years, has a solid esport scene and is still making tons of money for Blizzard. Calling sc2 a failure in really any respect is rather silly. Well to do some good selling with blizzards logo on a game isnt something.Nobody in korea cared about sc2 from the beginning and even idra said its a bad game, if the game was good why everyone plays bw now?Isnt this an indication that the game failed.Even as a single player games story was mediocre and childish. Not many people would play BW in Korea if the BW pros stopped playing.
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On December 11 2016 03:17 phantomlancer23 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 11 2016 02:57 SlammerIV wrote:On December 11 2016 01:54 phantomlancer23 wrote: Dustin failed in hots and sc2 i dont expect anything good from him nor i think they ll give him anything difficult and important again. Oh come, failed at sc2 is quite hyperbolic, sc2 is one of the best selling rts games of all time, still has a large player base after 7 years, has a solid esport scene and is still making tons of money for Blizzard. Calling sc2 a failure in really any respect is rather silly. Well to do some good selling with blizzards logo on a game isnt something.Nobody in korea cared about sc2 from the beginning and even idra said its a bad game, if the game was good why everyone plays bw now?Isnt this an indication that the game failed.Even as a single player games story was mediocre and childish.
idra doesn't like SC2, that doesn't mean its a bad game. And you're ignoring that thousands upon thousands of people are playing the game right now. Maybe they dont like the game as an esport, but its still a great game overall, best RTS in the last 10 years, and will probably be the best rts of the next 10.
But yeah, recent developments is quite interesting.
The Director of Heroes of the storm, the director of World of Warcraft, and the director of Hearthstone are now on different projects.
I'd guess Diablo 4 is being developed, the unnamed fps, and I'm gonna guess they have at least 1 mobile game in development. Blizzard recently announced that Allen Adham, co-founder, returned to the company after 10ish years. And one of the things he said was he excited about, was the future of mobile titles. (I know most of you groaning reading that, but they're probably working on big core stuff too)
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Maybe they dont like the game as an esport, but its still a great game overall, best RTS in the last 10 years, and will probably be the best rts of the next 10.
Which means nothing. Being the best=Says nothing without context. Has any rts games the last 10yeras been good? Nope they have been total crap.
If everything kills the planet and then this thing that comes around kills the planet 0.5% less, its still not a good thing. The best thing? Sure but its still crap.
Have you looked at the rts games? The controls are just total crap, the micro vs micro is total crap, the interaction is total crap. No rts designer is good at making an rts game. People will see this when an actual good rts game comes around which will happen but probably not anytime soon.
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On December 11 2016 05:21 aQuaSC wrote:Show nested quote +On December 11 2016 03:17 phantomlancer23 wrote:On December 11 2016 02:57 SlammerIV wrote:On December 11 2016 01:54 phantomlancer23 wrote: Dustin failed in hots and sc2 i dont expect anything good from him nor i think they ll give him anything difficult and important again. Oh come, failed at sc2 is quite hyperbolic, sc2 is one of the best selling rts games of all time, still has a large player base after 7 years, has a solid esport scene and is still making tons of money for Blizzard. Calling sc2 a failure in really any respect is rather silly. Well to do some good selling with blizzards logo on a game isnt something.Nobody in korea cared about sc2 from the beginning and even idra said its a bad game, if the game was good why everyone plays bw now?Isnt this an indication that the game failed.Even as a single player games story was mediocre and childish. Not many people would play BW in Korea if the BW pros stopped playing. No you are wrong the pros came back to bw because people wanted bw they followed peoples demand.
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On December 11 2016 05:48 Foxxan wrote:Show nested quote +Maybe they dont like the game as an esport, but its still a great game overall, best RTS in the last 10 years, and will probably be the best rts of the next 10.
Which means nothing. Being the best=Says nothing without context. Has any rts games the last 10yeras been good? Nope they have been total crap. If everything kills the planet and then this thing that comes around kills the planet 0.5% less, its still not a good thing. The best thing? Sure but its still crap. Have you looked at the rts games? The controls are just total crap, the micro vs micro is total crap, the interaction is total crap. No rts designer is good at making an rts game. People will see this when an actual good rts game comes around which will happen but probably not anytime soon. Exactly. And that should make you appreciate when something great come along. Especially when you crave for something new in a genre you really like.
It's a very difficult genre to make anything decent for.
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