During a panel at this past weekend's BlizzCon, a fan asked if Blizzard had any plans to remaster the Warcraft series' first two games. Unfortunately for that fan and anyone else who wanted them, Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce said there are no plans at this time (via Eurogamer).
Pearce explained how Blizzard is fortunate enough to have access to the original source code and assets, but he says it's "really hard to access that stuff, unlock it, and figure out how it all works."
"We had some dedicated folks that were passionate about the idea, dig up the Warcraft 1 assets and code," Pearce continued. "They got it working and they got it running in a window. And I played it. Warcraft: Orcs & Humans was awesome for its time. I promise you, in today's world, by today's standards, it's just not that fun any more."
Blizzard co-founder thinks Warcraft 1 and 2 "aren't fun anymore
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Asher Phillips
He's right, those aged like pure ass.
WC3 is where the fun is at
Charles Adams
RTS was never fun.
Jaxon Hughes
So fucking open source it and the assets, but leave the IP itself in the hands of Blizzard
Nolan Stewart
Activison-Blizzard can't afford having people making money off of their IPs. Even if they aren't planning on making off of those.
Gavin Brooks
Warcraft 2 has been ported to the Stratagus engine so you can play it in 1080p if you want to. It's mostly just a formality for them to sell it now.
Christian Reyes
No profit in that, goy.
Charles Stewart
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Josiah Evans
To be fair it was probably programmed in x86 assembly code and nobody there has touched that shit in 20 years.
Jace Davis
Pls user, no one likes to see anons doing it for free.