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Blizzard hiring for Classic Games (SC, D2, War 3) to "restore them to glory"

and I was just trying to replay Diablo 2.

a true update and then some would be amazing. if they could crack down on the hacking and bots online could be fun again.
 
Gosh dammit. It's hard to find game related jobs, that I can do. I am terrible at C++, my art skills aren't useful to them and it will take years for me to change style according to the needs of a studio and get to a level just as good or better than my current art.

I'm one hell of a writer, but almost no one is looking for writers.
 
Would love to play a remake of WC3. D2? Not so much, I've tried several times to go back to it and it's just not fun anymore.
 

Jinaar

Member
I would throw so much money to replay the Warcraft RTS series redone in the spirit of Heroes of the Storm's graphics. This needed to happen yesterday.
 

10k

Banned
Wait? Like Starcraft I is going to be remade using the Starcraft 2 engine or something? Or are they just going to add new icons and menus and widescreen support?
 

Grief.exe

Member
StarCraft and Diablo II still play pretty well, though not at modern resolutions. Specifically referring to D2 with the latter statement, not sure about SC.

I would love to play the old Warcraft games, but they aren't available at all on Battle.net.
 
Wait? Like Starcraft I is going to be remade using the Starcraft 2 engine or something? Or are they just going to add new icons and menus and widescreen support?

I'm not sure. It would be a huge investment to graphically overhaul WC3, Diablo 2, SC1, etc. so i'm inclined to say the latter.
 
I would buy a well done Starcraft 1 remake so hard. Starcraft 1 is so much better than anything Blizzard has put out since (save for World of Warcraft) that I'd be happy to repay for it.
 

Xena

Member
I lost the count of the amount of hours I've spent playing Diablo 2. Would buy again if there are significant improvements.
 

Athreous

Member
I couldn't go back to Diablo 2 after how good 3 is. It just feels slow and boring now.

Oddly, I could totally go for a restored (with some kind of gameplay enhancement) version of Diablo 1, just because the atmosphere is so amazing.

Same with War 3 vs War 2. I get that War 3 is a more mature, deep game, but War 2 has this permanent spot in my heart, and I'd love to play it again.

But d3 isnt good =(
 
I really doubt this is going to be anything more than compatibility testing + maybe adding a 16:9 resolution to D2.

Edit: Maybe they will make them work with the current Battle.net setup that the current games use (and probably removing LAN support).
 
Look like they have some recent grad positions, but checking to of them, they're really not recent grad positions, because the eligibility requirements is that you're currently enrolled and graduating this December or sometime next year. That should be with the internships then.
 

ScOULaris

Member
So help me... if Brood War gets a remaster/update without breaking or changing anything on the engine level (to make sure old maps still work properly) I will by 100 digital copies. I'm not joking. My passion for this endeavor knows no bounds.
 

ncslamm

Member
As much as I love Diablo 2 it would be difficult to go back to the stat/skill system after playing D3. Warcraft 3 Remastered though...I would buy that in a heartbeat.
 

Thewonandonly

Junior Member
Please blizzard but diablo 2 on console if you update it. Don't know if it will work but you made diablo 3 work so you can make 2 work. Maybe do a classic blizzard bundle for consoles and it would sell like hotcakes with diablo 1 and 2 and some warcrafts. I feel like blizzard is going into the console space a little more so this doesn't seem to far fetched.
 

Arkeband

Banned
This is great news. A persistent D2 client where your characters aren't wiped would be great and I'd definitely sink time into it again. The itemization, story, atmosphere, and permanent character builds are so much more compelling than what D3 offers.

I'd also play the hell out of WC3, but again, persistent account system, I had accounts that are surely gone by now. :'( RIP
 

ElCidTmax

Member
They updated Warcraft 2 once before, to run better on Windows and I think add TCPIP support. It would be great to have the back catalog running with full tcpip and widescreen support.
 

Kalavaras

Banned
Throwing money at the screen but nothing happens, holy shitballs give me a hacker free D2 right now! Whatever the improvements might be I dont even care.
 

Arzehn

Member
This is actually all all I want from Blizzard at this point.

HD remasters for SC and D2 would make me pretty damned happy.
Better Windows 7+ support, matchmaking for SC, new ladder items for D2, widescreen, etc.
 

Anoregon

The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I would love a remastered version of D2 but WC 3? Please choose 2 instead if we only can have one in the trilogy. That music!

https://youtu.be/pGl4slGxY8U?t=1s <3 <3 <3

I'd buy Warcraft 1 and 2 remakes so fast as long as they retain the amazing music.

I've mentioned it before, but one of my favorite things about the pet battles they added to WoW is that the battle music they use is straight out of Warcraft 2. That shit is so good.
 
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