All Your History: Blizzard and Condor
They also just released Part 2 of the Blizzard "episode," and I feel like this is the 20-year anniversary video that never was. No, really, I almost think this belongs on Blizzard's website as it includes an interview with Mike Morhaime and Frank Pearce about their early days with Condor/Blizzard:North in the same style as their own videos do. With Blizzard only giving us DiabloFans a small little blurb in their own video, this second episode from Machinima focuses almost completely on Diablo and Condor/BN (they kick it off with Warcraft 1). Anyone who is a DiabloFan should enjoy really enjoy this particular video.
For any Starcraft fans out there, Part 3 of the episode, dubbed "Zerg Rush," will be something you'll want to check out next week when it goes live. And I would regret not mentioning that they have also done a World of Warcraft series, that you can also check out. Even if you aren't a hardcore WoW player, you'll enjoy the video anyway.
UPDATE: 4/28/11: Episode 3 is live! It begins talking about Starcraft and gives a small mention of Hellfire. It then goes on to talk about Warcraft: Lord of the Clans, Starcraft, Warcraft 3 later on, with the last 2 or so minutes about Diablo II. Episode 4 of the series should be out next week and follows Blizzard through the later 2000's.
UPDATE: 5/4/11: Episode 4 is live. There's about 2 minutes about the Lord of Destruction expansion, otherwise the rest of it is War3, SC:Ghost, and WoW.
UPDATE: 5/9/2011: Episode 5 is live. The beginning starts off with D3 and Blizzard: North, then moves into BlizzCon, more general Blizzard stuff from 2005-present, and then the future.
Indeed. Can't wait for the action-packed episode between 2004 and 2010 where they make wow patches... and expansions... and patches... and expansions...
Uh, no, the video takes pains to mention that it missed christmas and came out a bit after New Year's.
Can't blame them either. It probably becomes increasingly harder to create a game, with all the different details that interact and stuff. Not to mention all the balance and innovation and iteration and...
Listened to the first one and will listen to the second one in due time. I liked the first one's style.
Who can blame them? That subscription model makes billions, and cannibalizing it would be insane.
Most businesses are started with a balance of finding something interesting versus wanting to make money, and eventually become a pure money thing.
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