The world's moved on, but Blizzard hasn't. It's been seven years since Blizzard's last strategy release, though - indeed, seven years since it did anything that wasn't WOW. Transporting Blizzard's high-speed, click-tastic micro-management strategy style from a fantasy to a sci-fi setting, StarCraft was a global smash and its multiplayer became almost a national sport in South Korea, where players capable of 300 actions per minute (that's five clicks a second!) enjoy sponsorship and big prize payouts from televised matches.
The original Warcraft trilogy is where it all began, but it was arguably 1998's StarCraft that made the biggest splash. We'll be very interested to see how Blizzard Accounts develop, and how they tie in to the company's revamped online gaming platform, due to launch alongside StarCraft II.Back before Blizzard took the world by storm with its monster MMO World of Warcraft, it was best known for its real-time strategy games. "Things like, 'I have a Horde and Alliance character at maximum level' or 'I have three max-level characters'," he said. He also revealed that the first content patch for Wrath of the Lich King will include Achievements that are account-based, rather than character-based. Prior to the introduction of the Blizzard Account, it will be tied into character profiles on the WOW Armory website. Kaplan also revealed a few more details on WOW's Achievement system. Players of the Lich King beta test in the US have been asked to create a Blizzard Account before starting, although the same is not true of the European beta. Rather than call it a 'score', we just wanted it to be like you're levelling up on Blizzard games." As we graduate to that Blizzard Account system, which is right on the horizon, it will switch over to a Blizzard Level. "For now, the points are just a WOW character score. "It's basically a gamerscore," he continued. "Eventually, our plans are for the Achievement system to become an account-based system," Kaplan said. Speaking to MTV, Kaplan revealed plans to include Achievements in StarCraft II and Diablo III and allow players to improve their "Blizzard Level".īlizzard recently announced the inclusion of Achievements in second WOW expansion Wrath of the Lich King. World of Warcraft lead designer Jeff Kaplan has let slip the first details of a Blizzard Account system that will track Achievements across all the publisher's games.
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