Starcraft - Ghost Delayed Until 2004

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the announcement on the official Blizzard website that "..we have decided to extend our StarCraft: Ghost development schedule." The tactical-action game being developed by Nihilistic for all 3 major consoles will now come out in 2004, and the official site at Blizzard has more details, including a number of new E3 previews.

Comments

Blizzard delaying a game? Not possible.

[cgenman]

See sarcastic subject line.

I admire Blizzard's dedication to making games highly polished and playable before release. But never, ever expect them to hit a ship date, even if it is next week.

I've always thought they should write their release date in an automatically self-incrementing javascript. It would save them some trouble, so that they could spend more time focusing on finishing.

Beginning of the fall of Blizzard?

[Anonymous Coward]

Starcraft Ghost's producer left a little while back to go work on another game: Goblin Commander.

You've got to wonder what else is going on behind the scenes. Who else has also left Blizzard? And why would they do that?

Re:Blizzard delaying a game? Not possible.

[prichardson]

I'd just like to point out that blizzard probably has very little to do with the making of the game. If you check their website it's being "codeveloped" by another company. Blizzard probably just sold them their name and franchise rights. Also, I've never known blizzard to even think about an FPS and I don't know why they'd start now.

This doesn't mean that SC G won't be a very fun and polished game; I would imagine Blizzard would run it through the same quality controls they do with all their games, but I beleive blizzard is hard at work on World of Warcraft right now.