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Blizzard Working on Remasters for Diablo 2, Warcraft 3

by - 7 years ago

Blizzard is releasing a Remastered version of StarCraft this summer. It’s also known that they have a classic game team that is working on updating their other titles and in recent interviews it was said if things go well with Starcraft, they would be looking at their other titles if it made sense.

Well, it seems it’s more than just looking at this point as Blizzard is actively hiring Software Engineers to make this happen. While they haven’t officially announced anything, this job description all but sums it up:

Originally Posted by Blizzard Careers (Official Post)

Compelling stories. Intense multiplayer. Endless replayability. Qualities that made StarCraft, Warcraft III, and Diablo II the titans of their day. Evolving operating systems, hardware, and online services have made them more difficult to be experienced by their loyal followers or reaching a new generation.

We’re restoring them to glory, and we need your engineering talents, your passion, and your ability to get tough jobs done.

If you like wearing many hats, know small teams are the most effective, and look forward to challenges that will create millions of new adventures for our players, we would love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

  • Implement server infrastructure changes to support new gameplay features.
  • Improve architecture design to reduce operation cost
  • Create conditions for experiences that look as good as they play.
  • Own implementation and curation of features new and old.
  • Diagnose and fix all the things: crashes, deadlocks, overflows, heap corruptions, etc.
  • Implement, maintain, and own infrastructure for the Diablo franchise

Requirements

  • Strong knowledge of C / C++
  • A minimum of 5 years’ experience in development
  • Experience with client / server architecture
  • Experience debugging unfamiliar code
  • A mind towards scalability and performance
  • Passion for games
  • Excite us

Pluses

  • Linux development experience
  • Database experience (e.g., MySQL, Oracle)
  • Distributed systems experience
  • Cloud technologies (AWS, VM’s, Openstack)
  • Low level network knowledge and diagnosis including packet capture (e.g., tcpdump, wireshark), routing, firewalls, DHCP, DNS, and NAT busting

The biggest piece of this whole job description is the fact that it mentions StarCraft, Warcraft 3, and Diablo 2 – and then goes on to say they are restoring them to glory. If this isn’t a confirmation on Blizzard’s plans for the future for a Diablo 2 Remaster and Warcraft 3 Remaster, then I don’t know what is.


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JR Cook

JR has been writing for fan sites since 2000 and has been involved with Blizzard Exclusive fansites since 2003. JR was also a co-host for 6 years on the Hearthstone podcast Well Met! He helped co-found BlizzPro in 2013.


0 responses to “Blizzard Working on Remasters for Diablo 2, Warcraft 3”

  1. Arseniy Sokolov says:
    June 17, 2017 at 11:44 am

    “If this isn’t a confirmation on Blizzard’s plans for the future for a Diablo 2 Remaster and Warcraft 3 Remaster, then I don’t know what is.”

    I know what it is:
    https://careers.blizzard.com/en-us/openings/oR9k5fw9
    Senior Producer, Classic Games
    Is your idea of click bait a pillar of amber light reaching towards the heavens? Do you remember the paradigm shift that accompanied Diablo II’s 1.10 patch? Do you have a spreadsheet comparing the Necromancer between Diablo II and III? Do you think leaders should have some dirt under their fingernails?
    Classic Games is seeking a senior producer to help drive our Diablo titles.