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Offline Donutt007

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Blizzard to develop for Wii
« on: July 08, 2006, 07:41:20 AM »
According to their hiring website they're looking for a Senior Producer.  
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Requirements - Recently shipped at least one AAA game in a producer role for one of these console platforms: Xbox, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, or GameCube.

Plusses - Xbox 360, PS3, or Wii production experience.


Here's the link Blizzard Entertainment

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Offline mantidor

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RE: Blizzard to develop for Wii
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2006, 09:54:54 AM »
How accurate has been this job announcements when predicting a game for a platform really? besides this requirements are pretty vague, I dont see it as confirmation of anything.

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RE: Blizzard to develop for Wii
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2006, 10:56:57 AM »
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« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2006, 07:13:36 PM »
Blizzard ported past games to systems and it really seems like a no brainer to port over warcraft 3 to wii because of the remote.
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RE:Blizzard to develop for Wii
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2006, 07:39:59 PM »
Dear Blizzard,

Rock n' Roll Racing (SNES) for Virtual Console.

Thank You.

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RE:Blizzard to develop for Wii
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2006, 09:18:19 PM »
How can someone be an experienced Wii producer already?
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RE: Blizzard to develop for Wii
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2006, 04:44:13 AM »
Sort of like how can someone have 1+ more years of experience then a Language existed?  Those sort of thing happen in this area.
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RE: Blizzard to develop for Wii
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2006, 11:03:06 AM »
Lost Vikings sequel, CONFIRMED!
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RE: Blizzard to develop for Wii
« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2006, 11:59:28 AM »
Oh please...bring back Ghost. Sigh...I was so loking forward to that game.  
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« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2006, 07:13:49 PM »
I'm part of a very tiny minority of enthusiasts that despises Blizzard for ripping off basically every creative aspect of their most popular games from British wargaming pioneer Games Workshop.  Realistically, though, Blizzard supporting the Wii sounds great for business...and I'm a very big fan of Rock n' Roll Racing...
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RE:Blizzard to develop for Wii
« Reply #10 on: July 13, 2006, 10:58:32 AM »
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Oh please...bring back Ghost. Sigh...I was so loking forward to that game.


Yeah, I think it was supposed to be released in 2002 and then got pushed back.  They didn't even show it off again at E3.  Guess they may have canned it or are revamping it for 360/PS3/Wii.
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« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2006, 12:09:50 PM »
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Lost Vikings sequel, CONFIRMED!


Actually, there was a sequel...Norse By Norsewest.  I don't know why Future Shop once had a whole side-shelf dedicated to the PC version of it.

I played some of the Super NES version but for some reason didn't like it.  I loved the original though, I've played that at least a few times, on Super NES AND PC.  I don't know why.

And Rock 'N Roll Racing was awesome.  I remember that both those games were developed way back when under the Silicon & Synapse name and published by Interplay.  At what point did they become Blizzard?

I was playing some WarCraft III: Reign Of Chaos the other day.  It reminded me that I do like certain RTSes.  I don't like all that Age Of Empire stuff, or anything that seems too much like real history.  At least with WarCraft it's more fantastical, yet for some reason I've avoided World Of WarCraft.

I wonder why StarCraft hasn't seen as much as WarCraft has.  Other than StarCraft, there's just StarCraft 64 (which I'm guessing isn't that different or that great) and the likely-canned StarCraft Ghost.  But you Blizzard fans knew that already.

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« Reply #12 on: July 13, 2006, 12:59:02 PM »
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Oh please...bring back Ghost. Sigh...I was so loking forward to that game.


Yeah, I think it was supposed to be released in 2002 and then got pushed back.  They didn't even show it off again at E3.  Guess they may have canned it or are revamping it for 360/PS3/Wii.


it was canned for GC but not the other consoles as far as I know, the excuse was that it didn't have online. At least they can't use that excuse with the rev.

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RE: Blizzard to develop for Wii
« Reply #13 on: July 13, 2006, 01:12:14 PM »
Ghost was effectively canceled for all systems earlier this year when it was "indefinitely postponed."  I think that's a buzzword that means "this game will never see the light of day, but we're hoping to avoid the bad press for cancelling it by letting fanboys continue to believe there's a chance it will come out until it's completely forgotten."  It's just as well.  Nothing about the game's development inspired confidence.
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RE: Blizzard to develop for Wii
« Reply #14 on: July 13, 2006, 02:41:40 PM »
"I wonder why StarCraft hasn't seen as much as WarCraft has. Other than StarCraft, there's just StarCraft 64 (which I'm guessing isn't that different or that great)"

I'm pretty sure Starcraft 64 is just a port of the PC game.  Perhaps the reason Blizzard hasn't made a new Starcraft yet is that the game is still so popular they don't really have to.  It's like a sport in Korea.  Maybe they think Starcraft 2 will hurt Starcraft 1 sales and at this point in time there's no reason to put the original on the backburner.
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« Reply #15 on: July 13, 2006, 02:43:22 PM »
And add to that, Blizzard just works reaaaaaal slow. And they're struggling to keep up with their WoW success. They're probably having more difficulties with success than they had with any failures.

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« Reply #16 on: July 14, 2006, 09:08:08 AM »
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I wonder why StarCraft hasn't seen as much as WarCraft has.  Other than StarCraft, there's just StarCraft 64 (which I'm guessing isn't that different or that great) and the likely-canned StarCraft Ghost.
You forgot Brood War.  That was a really good expansion pack, if memory serves.
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