Diablo 1 may be coming to Diablo 3 (which remains a weird bit of temporal engineering in my head), but Blizzard doesn't have widespread plans to resurrect its oldest and most storied games.
At Blizzcon this weekend, a fan (as noted by Eurogamer) asked whether the first two Warcraft RTS games - which helped set the stage for World of Warcraft, Hearthstone and the entire MOBA genre - could see a remaster one day. The short answer: no.
"We are fortunate enough to have all of the original source code and assets to everything we've done in the past," explained Blizzard co-founder, Jack Pearce. "But actually, it turns out, it's really hard to access that stuff, unlock it, and figure out how it all works. Because we're old, we've forgotten.
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At Blizzcon this weekend, a fan (as noted by Eurogamer) asked whether the first two Warcraft RTS games - which helped set the stage for World of Warcraft, Hearthstone and the entire MOBA genre - could see a remaster one day. The short answer: no.
"We are fortunate enough to have all of the original source code and assets to everything we've done in the past," explained Blizzard co-founder, Jack Pearce. "But actually, it turns out, it's really hard to access that stuff, unlock it, and figure out how it all works. Because we're old, we've forgotten.
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