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Posted 13th Mar 2010 04:08 PM by Medievaldragon [Edit this post]
Rob Pardo was pinned down at the GDC 2010 to ask if Blizzard has plans to license Battle.net to third parties by the Escapist.
Rob Pardo responded it's a theme the team has talked about and basically would be a lot of work and a challenge on their end to maintain. It would also represent a somewhat competitive platform for Blizzard giving the example that if Blizzard was to release a game and a third party game was on sale at the same time, there could be some complications or conflict of interests.
Blizzard is testing the Starcraft II Map Marketplace as a prototype experiment to see how well it is received by gamers, and how successful it becomes or how much support it gets from gamers.
Depending on how well that feature goes, and other factors, there might be an internal consensus on whether they are interested or capable to handle a Battle.net license.
Rob Pardo responded it's a theme the team has talked about and basically would be a lot of work and a challenge on their end to maintain. It would also represent a somewhat competitive platform for Blizzard giving the example that if Blizzard was to release a game and a third party game was on sale at the same time, there could be some complications or conflict of interests.
Blizzard is testing the Starcraft II Map Marketplace as a prototype experiment to see how well it is received by gamers, and how successful it becomes or how much support it gets from gamers.
Depending on how well that feature goes, and other factors, there might be an internal consensus on whether they are interested or capable to handle a Battle.net license.
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