Blizzard: No Intention To Stop 'World of StarCraft' Mod Development

Posted in News by Mag 26 with 2 comments (2011-01-21)

Blizzard Entertainment has clarified that it never intended to hinder the development of a 'World of StarCraft' MMO mod for StarCraft II developed by Ryan Winzen.

"It was never our intention to stop development on the mod or discourage the community from expressing their creativity through the StarCraft II editor," Blizzard said in a statement. " 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."

Blizzard went on the say that it's looking forward to seeing development of the mod continue, and that it has invited Winzen to the company's campus to meet the game's development team.

The official response comes one day after the company had video of the mod removed from YouTube, a move the company says was part of its routine procedure while reaching out to "discuss with the developer what the mod entailed."

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In response to Blizzard: No Intention To Stop 'World of StarCraft' Mod Developm

its nice see Blizzard embarrassing the Mods and not killing them as they did in the past.(remember sc1 mod for w3 rts engine?)

also this guy is extremely lucky to be offered a position in the sc2 team!

Bravo!

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It IS a very impressive mod imo, I'd imagine the SC2 devs going 'wtf' on some of the stuff people come up with using the editor ;)

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Posted 2011-01-21 (Jan. 21, 2011)

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