When will they learn?

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They should have kept it secret until they had a full release and then put it into the intertubes.

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why not restart the project as an original IP starcraft clone.. just change the graphics and remove all the trademarked and copywritten names and storylines.

All the coding has been engineered from scratch so theres no trouble there... Just make a game about a sci-fi battle between the humans, Space-elves, and astrotermites... I'll let you use those names, free of charge.

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I don't understand why Blizzard doesn't make official DS ports of some of their older games, like they did with those GBA ports. Starcraft and Diablo would work great on the system.

@Cameron DS:

Because taking out all the copyright material means making new graphics, sound, story, level design, game design etc., which turns the whole thing from a port to making an entirely new game. And the only reason anyone cared was because it's Starcraft.

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I emailed Blizzard Tech Support in one of my most fanboy-ish letters ever to ask if a Starcraft DS port was ever going to happen. The Starcraft 2 dev page says it's not going to be available on any system other than the PC. But Starcraft (or Warcraft, I'm not picky) on the DS just makes so much sense, considering not only the stylus controls but the built-in wireless, huge player base, and ability to zerg rush my roommate on a 3-inch screen.

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I emailed Blizzard Tech Support in one of my most fanboy-ish letters ever to ask if a Starcraft DS port was ever going to happen. The Starcraft 2 dev page says it's not going to be available on any system other than the PC. But Starcraft (or Warcraft, I'm not picky) on the DS just makes so much sense, considering not only the stylus controls but the built-in wireless, huge player base, and ability to zerg rush my roommate on a 3-inch screen.

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Coming soon: a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PROJECT called "Not StarCraft."

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Well, didnt Blizzard once asked what the fans would see in a port of Diablo and StarCraft to portables?....

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Really XSlicer? Then maybe this cease-and-desist is about more than just protecting their IP. Like when Bungie asked that fan Halo RTS team to stop and then it turned out there was an official Halo RTS in the works...

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This really upsets me. If Blizzard doesn't make a DS version after all of this, I'll be hesitant to give them anymore of my money.

StarCraft 2 or not, people obviously want StarCraft DS. You put it on N64, you may as well put it on a system worthy of the port, Blizzard.

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I dislike the ruthless nature in which small independent projects like this are systematically forced to be abandoned (except for Project Revolution, I guess because it required both StarCraft and WarCraft to be installed...?).

I do not, however, think it would make much sense for Blizzard to port StarCraft to a handheld. Blizzard puts a lot of time into making its games the best that they can be. StarCraft on either the DS or the PSP would be horrible because virtually all of the hotkeys are lost. StarCraft requires a lot more micromanagement than the dumbed down RTS releases of today, it wouldn't be playable without a keyboard. I'm fairly sure that Blizzard learned its lesson in this regard with StarCraft 64, the company isn't going to make a DS port if the DS's architecture is inherently ineffective for StarCraft.

Diablo could potentially work, though.

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Good for you Blizzard!!!

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Blizzard wouldn't let this happen, @#$@ing Merger.... Activision sucks....

sob...sob... (continues playing the buggy 0.3 release)

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Err, am I the only one who wasn't very impressed by this game? It was horrendously buggy, you couldn't really do much, the pathfinder sucked, and the only thing it had going for it was the ripped starcraft art and music. Warcraft TD has actual gameplay AND ripped graphics/sound, and it's quite fun to boot. Although with their last release I was starting to be convinced that they knew what they were doing since they included multiplayer.

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I have a feeling that since Blizzard has decided to shut down the project, chances are that they're working on their own port of the original Starcraft for the Nintendo DS.

Why else would they shut the homebrew project down?

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Please, don't kid yourselves.

Blizzard didn't do this because they are working on a DS port. They are simply trying to protect their IP. Nothing more. They are nothing like Bungie, so don't compare their C&D habits to them.

And LAWL at the "Blizzard wouldn't let this happen, @#$@ing Merger.... Activision sucks...." comment. They have shut down TONS of community-made game projects involving StarCraft in the past. This is just another statistic.

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Trackback:
http://www.starfeeder.com/blog/archives/starcraft_nintendo_ds_project_starlite/

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This is what I wrote Blizzard:
To a Not So Smart Company,

I would have bought a DS JUST for Starlite. I hope you guys considered of hiring those programmers for their motivation, ingenuity and creativity. Because it doesn't seem that Blizzard has any since it has taken YEARS to come out with ANYTHING revolving around the Starcraft title. You owe it to the Starcraft fans to at the very least make a SIMPLE port to a DS lite. The popularity of the Starcraft game is still strong, but shame on you for holding out for so long for a new Starcraft title and then raping the hopes of the Starcraft fans by telling some starved yet clever Starcraft fans that their efforts are worthless. As well as the not so talented Starcraft fans hopes are worthless.

Not sure how you all "calculated the costs" of not making the game yourself and then yielding the mad profits from it. Whoever there says what games to make or not make needs to do some serious rethinking on your company strategies. If a couple remedial programmers can make an impressive demo of Starcraft on the DS within a couple months, it doesn't say a whole lot about your entire company who has not provided anything for years.

A Dissapointed Starcraft Fan

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i don't know if anyone here is familiar with Warfare Incorporated for the Palm http://www.warfareincorporated.com/preview.php i played it a bit on my palm and it works well though i didn't play it too much since i'm not such a big fan of sci-fi RTS. But it goes to show how an RTS game can be played on a touch screen device. Granted though i played it on a 320x480 screen PDA though they have it running on 160x160 palms compare that to the DS' 256x192 and its very possible to have it span across both screens. What they should do is recycle the engine and replace the art.

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