Blizzard Won't Stop World of StarCraft Mod 129
On Wednesday we discussed news of an impressive-looking mod for StarCraft II that transformed the game into a WoW lookalike, which quickly drew a copyright infringement warning from Activision Blizzard. The company has now released an official statement green-lighting the mod for continued development.
"'It was never our intention to stop development on the mod or discourage the community from expressing their creativity through the StarCraft II editor,' Blizzard said in a statement. 'As always, we actively encourage development of custom maps and mods for StarCraft II, as we've done with our strategy games in the past.' Blizzard went on the say that it's looking forward to seeing development of the mod continue, and that it has invited Winzen to the company's campus to meet the game's development team."
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Re:So basically... (Score:5, Informative)
Except when you send out a C&D that gets your law firm fired [boingboing.net]...
Seriously, a little due diligence goes a long way here.
Re:what does the mod do...i still dont know (Score:5, Informative)
Starcraft 2 mods are really modules made with the map editor. It is, however, very powerful, and without any form of external game modification or hack, you can make entire games that have little to nothing to do with the original RTS game.
In this case, it was basically a small scale MMORPG-like game based on the starcraft universe, heavily influenced by the WoW mechanics.