Warcraft 4 release far in the future

15 June 2008

Posted by:Ferry

Warcraft 4 PC fake boxart 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

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asish

plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz make wc4
Belphegor

Honestly who really gives a sh*t about the one player campaign? i mean i guess its nice for a day or two then its all left to the online part of the game which is what makes WC3 pwn harder than any other RTS online imo…i think most ppl who have been playing WC3 these last 5 years wont care as much about the story as they will about the new improvements to races/units that will affect online play…and even if it does come out in years to come we have SC2 soon enough and Diablo 3 in the works go Blizzard! (except WoW…eww)
http://www.something.com noobpwnere

wc3 owns. i really hope u ,make a 4th cause i would bye it faster than u could say yabashabdabayabadingdong….. i think…….
secret man

i realy want to make warcraft 4…warcraft is a great game so better to make more parts and ppl will be very happy…plzzz make part 4…!!!
Lhikan

I hope warcraft 4 will be made…
But it is really possible, because there are lot of people, who doesnt like WoW, because it is a MMORPG, and want to have a new RPG – Warcraft 4 (like me). But, in my point of view, WoW totally mess up the story, and maybe they want to retrieve this mess, and do a RPG, that will retrieve their mistakes.

Lets hope, Warcraft 4 will be made, and we can play our favorite RPG again.

BTW: Sorry for my catastrophic english
bra

4th june 2009
Khurram

I realy luved warcraft III and afcrse the frozen throne.Warcrft 4 means new races and new stories,anyway hope it wud be unleshd soon.
hmm

thats right, wow totaly mess up the story.
the story is one of the thing that makes the warcraft universe so good
dave

well i heard that there going to do warcraft 4 as if wow never existed like illidain will still be alive as if your charecter never showed up and killed him and thats gd cuz honestly how f**ked up would warcraft be if arthas illidain kael’thas and so on wernt in it
Happytime

If not a warcraft 4, how about another expansion for warcraft 3? (: