Blizzard’s Rob Pardo says Starcraft Ghost may not be dead

A lot of fans mourned when Blizzard cancelled Starcraft Ghost. However, the same community also applauded the company for its willingness to “pull the plug” on a game it felt was not up to Blizzard’s standards.

After all, this is one of the few companies with an almost perfect track record. Every PC game it has released received much acclaim from critics and created loyal fan base among gamers.

World of Warcraft Lead Designer Rob Pardo recently spoke at the Hollywood and Games Summit and disclosed a lot of interesting details about how Blizzard runs its company.

What would interest most gamers though is the fact that Starcraft Ghost may not be dead after all and is just sleeping. This became clear as Pardo was discussing cancelled projects/games by Blizzard,

We’re just willing to cancel the products that fail. That’s important to our brand. We’re willing to bite the bullet and write off those expenses. Sometimes six months into development, the idea doesn’t flow. Our most recent one was Starcraft Ghost.

With that game we were very stubborn. I still believe in that game and the characters but we were not able to execute at the level we wanted to… Rather than work on that we had to focus on our other games. We’re hoping one day to return to it.

“Hoping one day to return to it…” – These are the words that bring hope to myself and other gamers who desperately wanted Starcraft Ghost to come out. Well, nothing to do now but wait and hope Blizzard finds the magic balance that’ll make the game worthy of being released.

While waiting, we will all have Starcraft II to chew on so no big loss really.

Via NEXT Generation

A lot of fans mourned when Blizzard cancelled Starcraft Ghost. However, the same community also applauded the company for its willingness to “pull the plug” on a game it felt was not up to Blizzard’s standards.

After all, this is one of the few companies with an almost perfect track record. Every PC game it has released received much acclaim from critics and created loyal fan base among gamers.

World of Warcraft Lead Designer Rob Pardo recently spoke at the Hollywood and Games Summit and disclosed a lot of interesting details about how Blizzard runs its company.

What would interest most gamers though is the fact that Starcraft Ghost may not be dead after all and is just sleeping. This became clear as Pardo was discussing cancelled projects/games by Blizzard,

We’re just willing to cancel the products that fail. That’s important to our brand. We’re willing to bite the bullet and write off those expenses. Sometimes six months into development, the idea doesn’t flow. Our most recent one was Starcraft Ghost.

With that game we were very stubborn. I still believe in that game and the characters but we were not able to execute at the level we wanted to… Rather than work on that we had to focus on our other games. We’re hoping one day to return to it.

“Hoping one day to return to it…” – These are the words that bring hope to myself and other gamers who desperately wanted Starcraft Ghost to come out. Well, nothing to do now but wait and hope Blizzard finds the magic balance that’ll make the game worthy of being released.

While waiting, we will all have Starcraft II to chew on so no big loss really.

Via NEXT Generation