Blizzard Response on World of StarCraft Mod

[Genopath]

If any of you have skimmed the battle.net forums recently, you might have noticed a mod team made claims that Blizzard Entertainment was taking action against their project by asking to take down a YouTube video. These concerns have been a bit exaggerated as Bashiok made this post addressing why the video was removed:

Earlier this week, a player-made StarCraft II mod called World of StarCraft and described as a “StarCraft MMO” was featured on a number of prominent gaming news sites, catching the attention of gamers as well as our own. With the name so closely resembling that of World of Warcraft, we wanted to discuss the title of the mod with the developer, and as part of our routine procedure, we contacted YouTube to request the video be removed while that discussion took place. We were also curious about the project and wanted to discuss with the developer what the mod entailed.

It was never our intention to stop development on the mod or discourage the community from expressing their creativity through the StarCraft II editor. As always, we actively encourage development of custom maps and mods for StarCraft II, as we’ve done with our strategy games in the past. That's why we release an editor with our RTS games, and why we feature top player-created content in the custom game search. It's also why we held a contest to spotlight the best community-crafted StarCraft II mods at last year's BlizzCon, and why we’ll continue to improve Battle.net to better showcase player-created content.

Like many players in the community, we’re looking forward to seeing the continued development of this mod, and as part of our ongoing discussion, we've extended an offer to the developer to visit the Blizzard campus and meet with the StarCraft II development team. As always, we appreciate all of the efforts of the talented and enthusiastic mod-making community, and we look forward to seeing and playing what they create using the StarCraft II editor in the future.

Source:
http://pixelatedgeek.com/2011/01/wor...date-bad-news/
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/to...26?page=14#261

[DemolitionSquid]

Smooth Blizzard, real smooth.

[hyde]

So much for your friendly neighborhood game developer.

[spychi]

like i belive that load of crap

[Arkalis]

At last (by the way, said video was posted here on our forums too) a response.

We contacted YouTube to request the video be removed while that discussion took place. We were also curious about the project and wanted to discuss with the developer what the mod entailed.

I think something is wrong with that paragraph.

[Godless]

I think what happened was some guy pulled the trigger too fast on yanking the video from YouTube, and now Blizzard has to do some PR tricks so their modder fanbase doesn't get scared off.

[Arkalis]

Or he was prematurely confirming there is a World of Starcraft coming up and Blizzard didn't want to seem as if they were copying a modder

[TheEconomist]

There is no World Of StarCraft. Blizzard said that would only start on such a project after the StarCraft team was done with StarCraft 2, the MMO team was done with Titan, and, on top of that, it'd take about eight years (according Frank Pierce) for it to get close to release.

[Quirel]

we contacted YouTube to request the video be removed while that discussion took place. We were also curious about the project and wanted to discuss with the developer what the mod entailed.

I think something is wrong with that paragraph.

Yes...
The first underlined section is present tense, while the second and third are past tense. Clearly, somebody wasn't paying attention in his/her Business English courses.

I'm going to avoid jumping onto the "Blizzard are Evul Corporation" bandwagon for the moment, until we see how this turns out.

[Pandonetho]

You guys are looking too deep into it. "We were also curious" as in, before they actually talked to the guy, they were curious about the project and wanted to discuss it with him.