Starcraft and World of Warcraft 2022

Posted on 9 December, 2022 by anqilan456

Ben Brode, the former game director for World of Warcraft who left Blizzard in 2018 after 15 years with the studio, went on to form Second Dinner buy WoTLK Gold, an indie studio that is made up of mostly ex-Blizzard developers who are currently working on an Marvel game.

Tim Morton and Tim Campbell Tim Campbell, two developers with vast experience on games like Starcraft and World of Warcraft, formed Frost Giant in 2020 with the intention of developing the next great RTS which will have a lot of the talent in the studio, roughly 80% according IGN and IGN, coming from Blizzard. Kevin Dong, former lead co-op designer on Starcraft 2. told IGN that the primary reason for having such large proportion of ex- Blizzard employees is Frost Giant's demand for developers who have RTS knowledge.

"It just happens that Blizzard has one of the largest concentrations of employees that work in the United States, so it follows that there would be a higher percent of ex-Blizzard employees." Dong said.

A lot of the former developers remain in an intimate relationWarcraft with Blizzard. Metzen remains a voice actor, as the former Horde Warchief, Thrall WoW WoTLK Classic Gold, for instance, and numerous still speak highly of Blizzard. As IGN mentions in its report that many former Blizzard employees who left were cautious about damaging their relationships with their former employer.