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homelan recently got a chance to sit down and chat with Blizzard's Bill Roper. The interview talks mainly about Blizzard's upcoming games, which include Warcraft III:The Frozen Throne, the console only game Starcraft Ghost, and of course World of Warcraft.
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Of course, the biggest current news event concerning the company is Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the expansion pack to their hit RTS sequel of 2002. The expansion is due to be shipping to stores worldwide tomorrow with a whopping 2.5 million copies heading to retail store shelves. Even though huge shipments of games are now normal for Blizzard, Roper still seemed amazed at the sheer numbers for Frozen Throne. “I remember when we shipped our first PC game and we came out with 200,000 copies,” Roper said of a number that would still be a respectable figure for most PC games today. “We asked ourselves, ‘Can we really sell that many copies?’” Frozen Throne has turned out well, according to Roper, “We got it all in,” he said, referring to all of the new content and features they have included in the expansion. “I’m amazed with the sheer work and content the team put into it.” When asked, Roper would not completely discount Blizzard putting out a second expansion pack to Warcraft III, saying they will make that decision after evaluating the success of Frozen Throne.

Another release of a somewhat smaller scale is due out soon but is still important to millions of players: the 1.10 patch to their action-RPG Diablo II. Roper told us, “We are down to a few bugs..” in testing the patch, which will likely be the last that will add new content to the game. As far as the patch’s release dates, Roper will only say that it will be soon after the release of Frozen Throne in order to give some distance between these two major releases on Battle.net. “We want to make sure the two products don’t collide,“ he said.

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