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World of StarCraft MOD thrown to the zerglings

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And by “zerglings” I mean Blizzard’s legal guys, who in all likelihood are actual zerglings only they wear ties and have little businessmen suits tailored to fit their multiple limbs and slashy bits. Aww, they sound so cute; somebody turn that into a plushie.

Anyway! Tuesday’s ION had a link to a fan-made StarCraft II MOD which turned the RTS into a MMO-type World of StarCraft game. People loved it; Blizzard not so much. Queue the legal zerglings with an evolved +2 to Litigation Speed.

The modder, who goes by the name of Ryanwin, posted a video on Youtube showing off the MOD’s pre-alpha footage. Shortly afterwards his video was removed and replaced by a “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Activision Games INC” message. Ryanwin was then hit by a cease and desist email from Activision Blizzard.

Naturally, he’s a little miffed by Blizzard’s reaction and said, “You created a tool that allowed us to do anything with your assets. You encouraged us to use your assets and were eager to see what we might come up with. You had to have seen this coming?”

The pre-alpha video is still available to view here if you want to check it out. It’s impressive stuff, but it ends with a “Coming Soon” message, which will probably have to be changed now.

Source: CVG

Last Updated: January 20, 2011

2 Comments

  1. Well, we knew this was a possibility. Usually Blizzard’s decisions make sense, and I understand them, even if I don’t like them, but Ryanwin IS right. Blizz did give the tools to the community and had to have expected something like this to happen.

    Copyright and all that wonderful stuff, yes, but still, I thought it was a great idea. I suppose Blizz doesn’t want a full game made with their name attached, yet had no involvement in making.

    That’s a lot of work with nothing to show, though.

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  2. Milesh Bhana

    January 21, 2011 at 04:27

    While Blizzard has no plans of making a World of Starcraft game right now, i think it’s prudent to keep the name. I think the issue here is that the modder is calling it “World of Starcraft”. And naturally Activision/Blizzard would like to keep that name. So… the modder should call it something else and move on.

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