Are World of Starcraft will change the name?

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StarCraft

Recently, an in-game Starcraft 2 mod called ‘World of Starcraft’ launched its official Youtube trailer. The main issue between the mod creator and Blizzard was the choice of name, as ‘World of Starcraft’ is owned by Blizzard. In a forum for the official project, World of Starcraft’s creator posted the following.

The Deputy General Council from Blizzard contacted me last night to discuss the details of the World of Starcraft project. This states that Blizzards main concern was that World of Starcraft would be an independent game. 

A talented gamer named Ryan Winzen created a new MMO for the PC. Utilizing Blizzard’s Starcraft 2 map editor, Ryan envisioned a very plausible World of Starcraft. Ryan is not an employee at Blizzard/Activision, he’s simply a dedicated fan with a handful of ideas.  Blizzard contacted Ryan the same night as his video was removed. Some Blizzard employees also worried Ryan was developing parts of his game outside of their software as a full blown MMORPG.

Ryan has teamed up with the owner and creator of a separate mod called Starcraft Universe. Let me clarify a few things: - World of Starcraft name is changed to Starcraft Universe. Ryan hopes to continue making his SC2 custom map mod now that he has a new name, Blizzard’s blessing and a little help from the community. Riot Games (makers of League of Legends) sent a message to Ryan after being impressed by his video.

Unless you’re Valve, the top attraction for a gaming company is money, not the admiration of the game’s community. However, when Starcraft fan ‘Ryan’ posted a trailer for his ‘World of Starcraft’ mod, which blends the setting and look of Starcraft with World of Warcraft MMO style, he was in for a surprise.

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. To some, this is truth to rabid rumours of an upcoming Starcraft MMO title.

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Disgusting, World of StarCraft MMO doesn’t Impress Activision

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World of  Star Craft

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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