Blizzard Shelved StarCraft: Ghost to Support WoW

[Exort]

This may be the first time I've heard about a company having to make cuts of any description due to being wildly successful.

Very good point. Maybe they only employ the best 100 :S.

Mmm... You do understand they wasn't really rich until WoW. Also at launch, WoW was filled with bugs. It wasn't until half year later it became more playable. At that time, the WoW income isn't pump in yet but WoW already need more resource to fix those bugs.

Also Blizzard is too honest about it. Somethings are better kept unknown.
By the way, does that mean SC: ghost might be what the fifth team at blizzard is working on?

 

[Mr. Socky]

So the one game Blizzard was making that looked slightly interesting to me got canned because of World of Warcraft. I've never been a fan of Blizzard, but they're making me downright love EA.

 

[chris89300]

This may be the first time I've heard about a company having to make cuts of any description due to being wildly successful.

Very good point. Maybe they only employ the best 100 :S.

Mmm... You do understand they wasn't really rich until WoW. Also at launch, WoW was filled with bugs. It wasn't until half year later it became more playable. At that time, the WoW income isn't pump in yet but WoW already need more resource to fix those bugs.

Also Blizzard is too honest about it. Somethings are better kept unknown.
By the way, does that mean SC: ghost might be what the fifth team at blizzard is working on?

Dunno anything about a fifth team, but it's possible, if there is one.
I know it had a lot of bugs, but tiny bugs take less time to fix than MAJOR expansions like Cataclysm.

 

[Negatempest]

Damn it!. Just let us know your working on it. I have been waiting for this game to come out since it was first announced. This game was announced about half a year after Metal Gear Solid 2 came out, just think about that for a bit.

 

[tautologico]

why does everyone think that blizzard would have done this well?
what shooters have they done well? um none because they haven't made one before. I'd rather a company stick to what its good at than make a game which they have no prior knowledge of the market of.

You mean like all the MMOs they did before WoW.

Haha, owned.

not really WoW just built on the hero elements out of Wc3 its hardly genre defying.

I understand your point that people don't take into consideration the possibility of it being bad, especially because the game is in a genre in which Blizzard has never proven itself to be good at. Hell, I'm somewhat of a Blizzard fan myself and I can't understand why people talk and praise so much a game that was never released.

But this last sentence of yours is just silly. Yes, WC3 had some RPG-ish elements. But it's quite a big leap from there to WoW. Try to think about it from a game design perspective, it is really really different.

If you want to argue that Blizzard had done things similar to WoW before, your argument would be better if you talked about Diablo II, not WC3. Even then, the differences from D2 to WoW are not trivial.

Just look at all the failed MMO developers around (even companies with far more previous experience with RPGs than Blizzard).

 

[Aeshi]

Wise decision.

 

[wibbit]

star craft ghost is dead, they even went so far as to give her a grave marker in wow:tbc.
this is nothing more then old news!

 

[BabyRaptor]

Pants do NOT work that way, no matter how tight.
That ass is an impossibility.

You see pants somewhere? o.0

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I would hope that, since it's made and added on to the money printing machine it calls World of Warcraft, it could have easily set up something to continue work on and complete Ghost. As was mentioned in the article anyway, it could be that Blizzard is working on the game quietly.

So, with that said, who wants to take out some bets? What will we see first? A complete Ghost? A sudden push-back for Duke Nukem Forever? Half-Life 3?

 

[The Human Torch]

This and the lacking quality of the game. Never heard anything good about the playability of Starcraft: Ghost, no matter what engine or developer it came from.

 

[Kotaro]

I would take this over WoW any day.

 

[Atmos Duality]

WoW killed Blizzard for a good 6 years.
We won't be seeing Starcraft: Ghost unless Blizzard can somehow link it up to Bnet 2.0, and since Ghost looks like a strong title for CONSOLES, that will never happen.
Either that, or Activision would try to get the game canned on the grounds of a Conflict of Interests (don't compete with yourself; that's just wasting development dollars and time) vs their beloved CoD4.3.

 

[commodorejohn]

Blizzard cares not for anything but WoW, film at 11.

 

[greenflash]

It's been a while since I've seen that picture. And still I have the same reaction:

Spoiler

DAT ASS

OT:
If the modding tool in SC2 is powerful enough, we might see this in some form as a custom map in SC2.

their already is one in development it's in beta last time i heard.

 

[paketep]

That's the new Blizzard: money, money, money...

 

[Exort]

WoW killed Blizzard for a good 6 years.
We won't be seeing Starcraft: Ghost unless Blizzard can somehow link it up to Bnet 2.0, and since Ghost looks like a strong title for CONSOLES, that will never happen.
Either that, or Activision would try to get the game canned on the grounds of a Conflict of Interests (don't compete with yourself; that's just wasting development dollars and time) vs their beloved CoD4.3.

Blizzard said many times they are look forward to return to consoles. Also Diablo 3 had opening for console development.

 

[Exort]

That's the new Blizzard: money, money, money...

While I agree with you.
I fail to see how making less game = more money.

 

[Negatempest]

Wait, are some people here forgetting that SC:Ghost was going to be a stealth/espionage game? Meaning that it would play similar to Metal Gear Solid and Splinter Cell. Damn it would have been a great game.

 

[PlaidHatter]

... I don't understand. These people have TRILLIONS at their disposal, and they can't make this game?

Well, maybe they didn't have those resources before WoW, but now...
I am bedazzled why's not made yet.

Just because they have lots of money doesn't mean they can make tons of games. Honestly, the limiting factors are time and manpower. Remember that even the top programmers and designers like to do things other than make games (like eat, sleep, have families, and go on vacations) all of which take *lots* of time and money.

 

[Sandytimeman]

Whats really cool is you can see an already finished cinematic of the Starcraft Ghost hidden in an Easter egg on the World of Warcraft Burning Crusade Collector's Edition Behind the Scenes DVD. Let me just say...its fucking awesome. I also loved seeing Nova make an appearance in SC2 btw.