The company’s started up a Classic Games division, which, as its name suggests, is dedicated to restoring and maintaining a few of its legacy titles. Blizzcon will also host the finals of Starcraft II’s World Championship Series, which is by many considered the most competitive game in Blizzard‘s roster. Still, it’s exciting to see that Blizzard isn’t forgetting the games that shot them into the gaming stratosphere, games that still have passionate player bases to this day.
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The original story is below. As a result, the search is on for a software engineer who can restore the games StarCraft, Warcraft III and Diablo II back to their former glory.
“Evolving operating systems, hardware, and online services have made them more hard to be experienced by their loyal followers or reaching a new generation”, reads the post. On top of that there’s Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch’s new heroes and content. On Friday Blizzard will also show off the full trailer for World of Warcraft The movie (check out the teaser below).
Job responsibilities for this position are listed below.
This Engineer position seems poised to bring these old games to more playable forms on current operating systems. There’s also a point that mentions combat hacking to improve multiplayer, as multiplayer is an integral part of all three titles.
Diagnose and fix all the things: crashes, deadlocks, overflows, heap corruptions, etc.
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