15 June 2008
Ferry

Warcraft 4 release far in the future

Blizzard’s VP of game design, Rob Pardo, was asked about the possibility of the developer creating the next Warcraft 4 real-time strategy (RTS) game in the popular series. While the MMORPG World of Warcraft has over 10 million subscribers, the franchise started out in the RTS genre, so will it be returning to its RTS roots? In an interview from last year he answered:

“Yeah, of course there’s a chance,” he confirmed. “The way that we develop things, each time a development team becomes available, because they’re done with creating the games that they’ve been doing, they have a lot of say over what their next game is. So what it would take is for one of our teams to decide that they want to make Warcraft RTS and of course, there’ll be some talk about doing that and I’m sure after StarCraft 2 ships, it will be one the ideas on the table for that team to do, but that’s pretty far off in the future and it would really be determined by a combination of the dev team and the company leadership.”

Mr. Pardo continued: “I think that one of the things that makes us ultimately successful as a company is that we’re more lead by our game-making decisions and not so much by business decisions, which is one of the reasons why this question used to be the StarCraft question. Back when we did StarCraft, we did Brood War, and everyone thought they were amazing games; they were successful and I used to get all these questions like, “Why are you doing another Warcraft RTS, shouldn’t you be doing StarCraft?” Well Warcraft was what the team wanted to make, they were burned out on the StarCraft universe, that was the game they wanted to make and as far as Warcraft goes, we love the universe – it’s an amazingly successful universe. If we want to go back and do it, maybe we will, maybe we won’t.”

Quotes from Gamedaily, boxart via Vgboxart

2 October 2008 08:56
Kel

oh my gosh, to whichever development team considers it in the future, i know that you know that i speak for a LOT of other gamers when i say PLEASE MAKE WARCRAFT 4.

4 October 2008 05:04
lukeworm

I hope they will put some good maps in wc4.
I’m so excited!!! Lukeworm ako!!!!

8 October 2008 17:08
megapuffle5

I really hope you decide to do this because i have really wanted to know what will happen in the story line next. im really excited so hurry up and make it!

8 October 2008 17:30
psychictarot

I have been playing all the blizard gaes sience i was 3 and i couldnt even read what they weere saying. my mom had to read them to me. i really want this to become a reallity. i also feel slightly ripped off about the orc “campaing” in the wc3ft because it wasnt really a campain, more like a rts wow. PLUS we dont know for sure that illidan is going to stay dead, if he really is even dead. they might find some artifact to bring him back. plus (again) i really like Jareds ideas and will back them up. so cool to be crushing ur oponents under the heels of demons. and what about the great ancient evils more powerful than sargeras that we find out about in the war of the ancients series? i want to know!!!!

16 October 2008 16:04
Dutchman

pls pls pls make a warcraft 4!!!! I’d love!!!
I wanna know what happens in the story !!
not making a WC 4/5/6/7/8/9 etc would be like JK rowling forgeting to finish book 7 of HP

20 October 2008 09:30
markus riihelä

yep we want it now!

26 October 2008 13:23
Derek

I seriously really really hope Warcraft IV is on Blizzard’s priority list after starcraft II and Diablo III. Both of those are going to be great, succesful games I’m sure and it would be a shame to not see a continuation of the Warcraft RTS series. I can only hope that ogres and goblins return to the horde, so that in Warcraft 2 I can play as one in high res, photo realistic graphics

28 October 2008 17:50
MAc

DOTA in HD YAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

30 October 2008 03:14
radoslav dishev

If they make WC4 it will be a best seller (might even beat wow) i hope they make a gg map editor and a couple of new races !

3 November 2008 11:34
asish

plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz make wc4