Posts Tagged ‘Achievements’
Blizzard On Diablo III Achievements
August 6th, 2008 / / by Sol Invictus
Blizzard’s community manager Bashiok has fielded multiple questions regarding Diablo III’s achievements and how Blizzard plans to implement them into the game.
Blizzard Plans Achievements Across All Games
August 2nd, 2008 / / by Sol Invictus
Beginning with the implementation of achievements in Wrath of the Lich King, Blizzard has announced its plans to implement achievements across all of its games, including the upcoming Diablo III and Starcraft II through the use of a Blizzard Level system tied to a single, universal Blizzard account. World of Warcraft designer Jeff Kaplan revealed some of the following details to MTV’s Multiplayer Blog.
“Eventually, our plans are for the Achievement system to become an account-based system,” he explained.
When the new Blizzard Accounts are active, a player’s ‘WoW’ points can be added to an overall score dubbed an account holder’s “Blizzard Level.” “It’s basically a gamerscore,” Kaplan said, when I made reference to Xbox Live’s Achievement system. “For now the points are just a ‘WoW’ character score. As we graduate to that Blizzard Account system, which is right on the horizon, it will switch over to a Blizzard Level.
Your ‘WoW’ score would be just one factor that will go into your Blizzard Level. And rather than call it a ’score,’ we just wanted it to be like you’re leveling up on Blizzard games… You’ll have this Blizzard identity, and you’ll be able to see things like ‘Oh, this guy was great at Diablo III, but he never played Starcraft and he was mediocre in WoW. That sort of thing.”
There couldn’t be better news.
Blizzard on the upcoming WoW Achievements and Expansions
August 1st, 2008 / / by Sp3tSnAz
Kotaku has an interview up with Blizzard developers in which they talk about the upcoming achievements in the WoW expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. They also have an interview about how often expansion packs for WoW should come out.
The first article on the achievements and talks about the reasons for their inclusion, what sorts of achievements there will be as well as how many achievements there are.
The second article talks about the WoW expansions and how often they should come out. The main consensus is at least one should come out every twelve months, however if more work is needed, it’s better to complete the product before releasing it.
