The Blizzard One team responsible for the remake of “Warcraft III” has been disbanded in the fourth quarter of last year.Picture: Blizzard Entertainment/Provided
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The well-known American financial media “Bloomberg” reported that the Blizzard One team, who was responsible for the production of “Warcraft 3: Rebirth of the Chain”, was originally to take over the “Diablo II Remake” project, but was later “drawn from the bench” by Blizzard. The team was disbanded and transferred to another team that was developing “Diablo IV” and the original Activision Blizzard studio Vicarious Visions jointly responsible for the development.
“Warcraft 3: Chain Rebirth”, which was highly anticipated by many hardcore Blizzard players, was launched at the end of January last year. Unexpectedly, it suffered side-to-side negative reviews as soon as it was listed. The exclusive page of the comprehensive game review site Metacritic has more than 20,000 people. Players give extremely low ratings, with an average score of only 0.5, which is the lowest rating in PC gaming history.
The average score of “Warcraft 3” quenched and reborn on the game’s comprehensive review site Metacritic is only 0.5 points. Figure: Retrieved from Metacritic
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According to “Bloomberg” reporter Jason Schreier, the original “Warcraft 3: Chain Rebirth” was developed by the code-named team No. 1. In the past, this team was responsible for “Blizzard” and “StarCraft II”. It is well-known that “Warcraft 3: Chain Rebirth” was devastated after its launch, which seemed to shake the decision-making circle of Blizzard, and the plan of the first team to take over the production of “Diablo II Remake” The rejection and further “organizational reconstruction” caused the team members to transfer to other projects. Eventually, the No. 1 team was disbanded and the members went their separate ways.
According to the content of the report, “Diablo II Remake” will be handed over to another team that is developing “Diablo IV” together with Vicarious Visions, a studio under Activision Blizzard. The official spokesperson for the latter Joining the joint development response only means that Vicarious Visions has been cooperating with Blizzard for some time.
See the original text here”Blizzard Absorbs Activision Studio After Dismantling Classic Games Team“
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