TheNewsGuy
08-01-2008, 05:56 PM
Blizzard Entertainment's anticipated PC sequels StarCraft II and Diablo III will track a player's achievements via a unified "Blizzard Account," World of Warcraft lead designer Jeff Kaplan has revealed.
"Eventually, our plans are for the Achievement system to become an account-based system," Kaplan told MTV Multiplayer (http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/08/01/blizzard-accounts-achievements/). "For now the points are just a [World of Warcraft] character score. As we graduate to that Blizzard Account system, which is right on the horizon, it will switch over to a Blizzard Level."
Kaplan explained that a player's so-called Blizzard Level—essentially akin to the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Gamerscore—would be composed of achievements across numerous Blizzard titles including StarCraft II (http://www.shacknews.com/tag.x/StarCraft+2), Diablo III (http://www.shacknews.com/tag.x/Diablo+3) and World of Warcraft...
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"Eventually, our plans are for the Achievement system to become an account-based system," Kaplan told MTV Multiplayer (http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/08/01/blizzard-accounts-achievements/). "For now the points are just a [World of Warcraft] character score. As we graduate to that Blizzard Account system, which is right on the horizon, it will switch over to a Blizzard Level."
Kaplan explained that a player's so-called Blizzard Level—essentially akin to the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Gamerscore—would be composed of achievements across numerous Blizzard titles including StarCraft II (http://www.shacknews.com/tag.x/StarCraft+2), Diablo III (http://www.shacknews.com/tag.x/Diablo+3) and World of Warcraft...
Read more here... (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53993)