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No Starcraft II Until 2008

Blog written by Aurelia on June 1, 2007 at 09:08 AM | 3 Comments

MSNBC is reporting that StarCraft II will not be making its way to your PC any time in 2007. Blizzard's Vice President of game design, Rob Pardo, confirmed that that the game would not see release until 2008 at the earliest.

"The only thing I can give you [that is] concrete is it's not going to be this year," Pardo said. "Some people were hoping, because of how advanced the game looks, that we'd have it out by Christmas, but that's definitely not happening."

Pardo spent a while detailing Blizzard's design philosophies, pointing out the fact that the company completely redesigned Warcraft 3 after it was already two years into development. "We're able to do that because we have smaller teams and we give ourselves time to iterate through the product...You see a lot of companies that are so focused on the release date that they put 100-person, 200-person teams together to hit that [target] date, and at that point you're really [on a] runaway train. You have to hit that [release] date and live with decisions that you might not have been 100 percent happy with. We take the opposite approach."

Pardo wrapped up the interview by stating that Starcraft II has been in development since 2003, but that "full production" did not start until a "year or so" later.