Blizzard Shelved StarCraft: Ghost to Support WoW

[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.

 

[mireko]

The Mass Effect team at BioWare should take over production after ME3 is released.

That would be a good fit.

EDIT: Actually, that doesn't work. Forgot Blizzard is Actiblizzard now. Feh.

[sub]captcha: "you goolatin".. somehow, I'm offended.[/sub]

 

[Mechsoap]

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

Lets say you have over perhaps 20 million people in-front of your house, who will keep give you money if you keep them entertained for 7 years. And if you dont they will go batshit insane on you.

 

[2fish]

Uh... That's not how clothes work.

In the future clothes will come in a can, spray on clothes if you will. So, that is how they will work in 57 years 32 days and 10 min from this post.

I really wanted that game because I played Starcraft for the ghosts and the firebats. A ghost game could be so amazing.

 

[FogHornG36]

How old is this?! Shelving Starcraft Ghost to work on wow, this seems like the exact think that was said some time ago...

 

[Gindil]

Blizzard you friggin teases... >_<

It was the one game, the ONE GAME, I was looking forward to... Then WoW came out and (^% it all to hell...

ARGH!!!