starcraft ghost?

Question

i heard that they stopped making starcraft ghost for some reason. I just want to know if this is true and if it is then why was the project cancelled?

Answer 1

Trouble with development



Release has been postponed six times, although this is not entirely unusual with Blizzard games. Game development started in mid-2001, with a release date of winter 2002-2003. During the summer of 2002, the entire Nihilistic Software development team, the original developer of the game, quit en masse after an internal power struggle with Blizzard. At the time, Slashdot and Penny Arcade reported that the team had already completed more than 85% of the game engine and 40% of all level design.

Following the resignations, Blizzard pushed back the release date of the game to January of 2003, only to push it back to "early summer 2003" in October of 2002. Blizzard went out on the market to look for a new development team, while reassuring their customers that there was nothing to worry about, that Nihilistic Software had merely finished the job they were hired for, that there were no power struggles inside the company and that the game would be delivered on time.

By Christmas 2003, they had found their new development team, but they pushed the date even further backwards to "second quarter of 2004".

The game was announced at E3 2005 (and later the date was pushed to September 2005), and the web page was updated for the first time in a year. Blizzard Entertainment also acquired Swingin' Ape Studios as part of a console-dominating strategy. Swingin' Ape Studios canceled the GameCube version in order to concentrate more on the Xbox and PS2 version, citing a lack of online support. These announcements seemed to have improved fan opinion of the game, but pushed the release date even further back to 2006.

In late March 2006, Blizzard Entertainment announced that the game has been "indefinitely postponed" for the PS2 and Xbox.

Although no further word has come on Starcraft Ghost's status, in November 2006, a new Blizzard novel, StarCraft Ghost: Nova [2], written by Keith R. A. DeCandido, was quietly published. This has led to speculation that Blizzard is taking the same route with StarCraft: Ghost that was taken with Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans, which was cancelled in 1998, only to have its story released as a novel, Warcraft: Lord of the Clans, written by Christie Golden.



I also share your disappointment. It looks unlikely that we will see this game.

Answer 2

It was supposed to come out year 2003, however it was delayed.



In the same Blizzcon that Blizzard announced World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, they announced Starcraft Ghost to come out on next generation of game consoles.

Answer 3

in accordance to snow fall they're engaged on the two projects. of direction they had somewhat take 10 years to make a stable interest somewhat of standard crap. seem at Warcraft III. They introduced it via end of 2000 and it went out mid 2002. they could take the two video games on sale jointly as the two have "great new-age image renderers" meaning a similar gadgets yet with element. consistent with possibility they did no longer prefer to wreck the marvel and that they holded Ghost to look ahead to Starcraft 2

Answer 4

It just got put on the backburner repeatedly until StarCraft 2 got the go-ahead.