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General discussionBlizzard: "We’re restoring classic games to glory..."(94 posts)(94 posts)
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Posted November 04, 2015
"Compelling stories. Intense multiplayer. Endless replayability. Qualities that made StarCraft, Warcraft III, and Diablo II the titans of their day. Evolving operating systems, hardware, and online services have made them more difficult to be experienced by their loyal followers or reaching a new generation.

We’re restoring them to glory, and we need your engineering talents, your passion, and your ability to get tough jobs done.

So if you like wearing many hats, know small teams are the most effective, and look forward to challenges that will create millions of new adventures for our players: we would love to hear from you.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Make gameplay first again on modern operating systems.
Create conditions for experiences that look as good as they play.
Own implementation and curation of features new and old.
Combat hacking to improve multiplayer.
Diagnose and fix all the things: crashes, deadlocks, overflows, heap corruptions, etc."

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/careers/posting.html?id=15000XZ
Post edited November 04, 2015 by playerone81
Posted November 04, 2015
Starcraft and Diablo 1-2 need widescreen resolutions, that's about it.
Posted November 04, 2015
Ha, hahha, mwuhhahaha. What they in fact mean, is they want to take their old games which have made them vast amounts of money, whack a widescreen mod on it, then resell it for vast amounts of cash again, whilst linking them all up to the real money auction houses and drm riddled software.

If anything these fuckwits should be legally banned from touching any old material, but unfortunately IP laws allow this kind of underhand theft off dumb people.

My opinion, stop buying from them full stop.
Posted November 04, 2015
and now that we own King and their know-how, we can even improve them classics!


Actually, it would be pretty funny if that old Starcraft cheat "show me the money" actually opened a window asking for your credit card...
Post edited November 04, 2015 by P1na
Posted November 04, 2015
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nightcraw1er.488: Ha, hahha, mwuhhahaha. What they in fact mean, is they want to take their old games which have made them vast amounts of money, whack a widescreen mod on it, then resell it for vast amounts of cash again, whilst linking them all up to the real money auction houses and drm riddled software.
WITH ENHANCED GRAFIX WITH 4K SUPPORT AND INTRODUCING BATTLENET ACHIVMENTS
Posted November 04, 2015
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playerone81: "Compelling stories. Intense multiplayer. Endless replayability. Qualities that made StarCraft, Warcraft III, and Diablo II the titans of their day. Evolving operating systems, hardware, and online services have made them more difficult to be experienced by their loyal followers or reaching a new generation.

We’re restoring them to glory, and we need your engineering talents, your passion, and your ability to get tough jobs done.

So if you like wearing many hats, know small teams are the most effective, and look forward to challenges that will create millions of new adventures for our players: we would love to hear from you.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Make gameplay first again on modern operating systems.
Create conditions for experiences that look as good as they play.
Own implementation and curation of features new and old.
Combat hacking to improve multiplayer.
Diagnose and fix all the things: crashes, deadlocks, overflows, heap corruptions, etc."

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/careers/posting.html?id=15000XZ
Multi player is not what I enjoyed the most from old Blizzard games, Single Player games do.
Posted November 04, 2015
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nightcraw1er.488: Ha, hahha, mwuhhahaha. What they in fact mean, is they want to take their old games which have made them vast amounts of money, whack a widescreen mod on it, then resell it for vast amounts of cash again, whilst linking them all up to the real money auction houses and drm riddled software.
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Gonen32: WITH ENHANCED GRAFIX WITH 4K SUPPORT AND INTRODUCING BATTLENET ACHIVMENTS
Fuck me, not battlenet achievements, how have I lived to this point!
Posted November 04, 2015
It's good that they're trying to support the old games they're still selling.
Posted November 04, 2015
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nightcraw1er.488: Ha, hahha, mwuhhahaha. What they in fact mean, is they want to take their old games which have made them vast amounts of money, whack a widescreen mod on it, then resell it for vast amounts of cash again, whilst linking them all up to the real money auction houses and drm riddled software.
Bingo. And don't forget only being able to buy these games in bundles for $60+, for "added value".
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nightcraw1er.488: If anything these fuckwits should be legally banned from touching any old material, but unfortunately IP laws allow this kind of underhand theft off dumb people.

My opinion, stop buying from them full stop.
Good luck seeing that happen. We all know that Blizzard is going to be hailed as one of the true champions of classic gaming, a great and wonderful company who cares about its fans, for doing this.
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P1na: and now that we own King and their know-how, we can even improve them classics!

Actually, it would be pretty funny if that old Starcraft cheat "show me the money" actually opened a window asking for your credit card...
For the love of God, please don't give them any ideas!
Posted November 04, 2015
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Crosmando: Starcraft and Diablo 1-2 need widescreen resolutions, that's about it.
So Warcraft 1,2 and Diablo 1 confirmed for re-release in digital?
Posted November 04, 2015
Diablo 2 needs auction house and constant Internet connection.... ohh wait a minute :/
Posted November 04, 2015
I don't dare imagine..
Posted November 04, 2015
I don't know; it sounds weird. Since when does Blizzard actually care for games, gaming and gamers?

Don't get me wrong: their old games are great but the Blizzard operation nowadays is one big scheme to take people's money without anything in return. Kidding? I can back it up; I have plenty of examples.

Restoring classic games to glory. Right....
Posted November 04, 2015
*Watching the costly "Diablo III" decoration on his shelf* Fuck you forever, Blizzard.
Posted November 04, 2015
Not bad idea, but depends what are they understanding by "restoring them to glory". If they mean "well, we'll ad wide-screen options and release them for $40", that would be a bad move.

I was playing W3 few days ago and i was really bummed of how outdated the game feels right now. It aged much worse than W2, for example. It's a shame. And there are not big problems either. As i was used with SC2, the camera zoom on W3 feels a little bit too close and the HUD is a little big for big monitors.

On SC:BW, it's the widescreen problem and the same camera/HUD problems that were present at W3.

Diablo 2, basically the same problems, but mostly better widescreen support.

I really think that they will be free updates, just small fixes to adapt the games to modern computers/monitors. And that would be awesome. I prefer this kind of approach than a big graphical update that will be released as "new" game.
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