Plans for future products will be revealed at a later date. The company released its subscription-based massively multi-player online role-playing game, World of Warcraft?, at the end of 2004 and is continuing work on StarCraft: Ghost(TM), its upcoming tactical-action console game set in the award-winning StarCraft? universe. “In addition to improving our efficiency as a company, the relocation also represents an opportunity for all of our teams to have regular, direct input on each other’s projects.”īlizzard does not believe that these changes will cause significant delays on any of its projects in development. “We’re looking forward to having our PC development teams together in Irvine,” stated Mike Morhaime, president and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment. Diablo IV community manager Adam Fletcher notified players in a forum post that this specific method of Realm-hopping got the kibosh in a recent hotfix and select accounts related to this incident had been actioned against. 1, 2005-Blizzard Entertainment? today announced its plan to centralize its PC development teams at the studio’s Irvine headquarters.Īs part of this initiative to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of its teams, a majority of the staff from Blizzard’s Northern California office will have an opportunity to relocate to the company’s Irvine office, where they will continue work on an unannounced project. Blizzard fixed the issue and has since issued bans to offenders.

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