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A few days ago, Techland wrote about how Blizzard Entertainment asked YouTube to take down a video of a player-made Starcraft II MMO called World of Starcraft. Blizzard wrote:
Earlier this week, a player-made StarCraft II mod called World of StarCraft and described as a “StarCraft MMO” was featured on a number of prominent gaming news sites, catching the attention of gamers as well as our own. It was never our intention to stop development on the mod or discourage the community from expressing their creativity through the StarCraft II editor. As always, we actively encourage development of custom maps and mods for StarCraft II, as we've done with our strategy games in the past. That's why we release an editor with our RTS games, and why we feature top player-created content in the custom game search.
You might have read in the past few days about Ryan Winzen and his "World of StarCraft" MMO mod for "StarCraft 2." Using editing tools provided with the game, Winzen built himself a spiffy-looking "StarCraft" MMO modeled after Blizzard's other insanely popular game that isn't called "Diablo": "World of Warcraft." In addition to his work being allowing to continue on this "StarCraft" mod -- with many more eyes watching it's development now, no doubt -- Winzen also received a call from Riot Games to discuss a possible game design gig in the aftermath of the incident.
I've had professional composers contact me, dozens upon dozens of game designers and programmers and organizers. Welcome to the world of professional game development.
So when StarCraft II shipped, Blizzard packed in editing tools that the mod community went mad with. Activision Blizzard has sent out copyright claims over the creation of a user-made StarCraft MMO that Rock Paper Shotgun beautifully dubbed ‘World of StarCraft’.
Seriously, why’d you give us these tools?
The brilliance of StarCraft combined with the multiplayer focus of World of Warcraft. While we can’t speak to the quality of the product he will deliver, he does make a good point about Activision Blizzard providing these StarCraft mod tools. Them’s fighting words right there. This terrible episode aside, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a brilliant video game you have no excuse for not owning if you care for PC games, and especially RTS titles.
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