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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Professional gaming is big in Korea. How big? Over four hundred thousand money points big. Player Jae Ho ‘Moon’ Jang has signed a contract for US$473,037 to play WarCraft III.
Korean gamers don’t just love playing, but watching others play games, too! Korean network MBC Game has been broadcasting real-time-strategy game StarCraft matches for year. So broadcasting RTS Halo Wars makes sense.
What do you get when you take one of the world’s most popular player-made Warcraft III mods and break it out into its own game? League of Legends: Clash of Fates.
Microsoft isn’t the only one swinging the account crushing banhammer just before the holiday rush. Blizzard has suspended an impressive 350,000 Battle.net accounts identified as using “third-party hacks” in both StarCraft and Diablo II. According to folks at Blizzard, this is on top of an additional 7,700 Warcraft III accounts getting the same treatment. We won’t miss you, you cheating sons of bitches — no postcards necessary. The full warning statement and explanation for banning follows.
Blizzard is rolling out a bunch of its MMOs in China. Striking a joint venture with NetEase.com affiliate Shanghai EaseNet Network Technology Limited, Blizzard will be introducing StarCraft II, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, and Battle.net platform. Says Blizzard’s CEO Mike Morhaime:
NetEase has been a leader in the Chinese game market, and we look forward to working with them to deliver high-quality entertainment to Chinese gamers. This partnership is a sign of our continued commitment to our players in China and to the local industry.
The licence will be on a three-year term and have a mutual one-year renewal period. Full details in the release after the jump.
People still play Warcraft III. In fact, heaps of people play it. If it’s not your run-of-the-mill tournament play, then it’s DoTA, or tower defense, or some other popular custom map.
Blizzard has seen fit to reward their loyalty by removing the initial CD check from the game’s start-up. That… and the company realised the game has been out so long, that those who wanted to pirate it did so a long time ago.
You may remember Blizzard removed the CD check from its RTS Starcraft late last year. Seeing as players of both games spend most of their time on Battle.net, which requires a legitimate CD key to use, the check has simply become an annoyance for paying customers.
Warcraft III Patch Announcements/Updates [Warcraft III forums]
This could be the beginning of a huge trend. Eagerly awaiting news of a patch for Warcraft III, official forum poster TowerPowerNerf was getting increasingly frustrated. When the Blizzard RTS Community Manager Karune posted news that there would be no WCIII patch before 2008, something inside TPN broke, and he did the only thing a man with nothing else to lose can do. He created a rap video. Not a particularly good rap video mind you, but he certainly put a lot of effort into, breaking out his best approximation of the English language to make sure his point was heard. Imagine if all heated forum posts eventually jumped from flame war directly to rap off! The internet would be a better place, especially if the company’s employees started responding in kind. Karune did.
