This week it became known about the structural reforms in the publishing house Activision Blizzard… Studio Vicarious Visions has been transformed to the internal team Blizzard and lost the opportunity to work on my own projects.
Journalist Bloomberg Jason Schreier commented on the situation. According to his sources, the reform is directly related to the scandals surrounding the release of the strategy. Warcraft III: Reforged…
The release of the re-release of the cult game took place in early 2023, but fans quickly found out that they were sold not at all what the developers had originally promised. In addition, the strategy suffered from numerous problems, and from Battle.net removed the original version Warcraft iii…
A dedicated team was responsible for releasing remasters and remakes of Blizzard games Team 1which is based in California. The management linked the failure of Reforged to the actions of “effective” managers who put financial pressure on the developers in order to quickly release the strategy. The situation was not improved by mistakes in planning and poor communication, due to which misunderstandings constantly arose.
Schreier gives one example. Warcraft III: Reforged was announced in November 2018, immediately starting to accept pre-orders for 2019. But most of the development team was not informed about this.
After a failed release Blizzard Team 1 decided not to repeat Reforged’s mistakes when creating the Diablo II remake, but the studio decided to take the project away from them. Now for the creation Diablo II: Resurrected in charge of the team who is also working on Diablo iv… It has been further enhanced with the help of Vicarious Visions, who has experience in remaking.
Team 1 itself was reorganized in October 2023. Employees were offered interviews for subsequent employment with other internal Blizzard teams. Some people were laid off, others went to independent companies that were created by the studio’s veterans. In particular, we are talking about studios Frost giant and DreamHavenfounded by the former head and co-founder Blizzard Entertainment Michael Morheim…
Because of this, content development for Heroes of the stormand support Starcraft ii has been completely collapsed. Most likely, the outsourcing team is now responsible for finalizing Warcraft III: Reforged.
As the co-founder told in 2019 Blizzard north Max Schaefer, remaster development Diablo ii is a daunting task as the studio has managed to lose all the game code and assets. To make matters worse, team members forgot to back up their data.
Most of the resources were restored thanks to the version of Diablo II, which some developers took to their homes to play. But a lot of data, art and resources were irretrievably lost.
However, in May 2023, it was reported that Activision Blizzard was working on Diablo II: Resurrected. And Vicarious Visions is responsible for the development.
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