Blizzard seeking employee to work on classic games

[LordDz]

One can only hope they will touch Warcraft III somehow.

Compelling stories. Intense multiplayer. Endless replayability. Qualities that made StarCraft, Warcraft III, and Diablo II the titans of their day. Evolving operating systems, hardware, and online services have made them more difficult to be experienced by their loyal followers or reaching a new generation.

We’re restoring them to glory, and we need your engineering talents, your passion, and your ability to get tough jobs done.

So if you like wearing many hats, know small teams are the most effective, and look forward to challenges that will create millions of new adventures for our players: we would love to hear from you.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Make gameplay first again on modern operating systems.
• Create conditions for experiences that look as good as they play.
• Own implementation and curation of features new and old.
• Combat hacking to improve multiplayer.
• Diagnose and fix all the things: crashes, deadlocks, overflows, heap corruptions, etc.

REQUIREMENTS

• Expert knowledge of C / C++
• A minimum of 5 years’ development experience
• Experience debugging unfamiliar code
• Passion for games
• Excite us

PLUSES

• Experience debugging Win32 or OS X game software
• Experience using Visual Studio or Xcode
• Experience with x86 assembly

Apply here: SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, CLASSIC GAMES

 

[Zwiebelchen]

So, the age of endless rehashes and remastered versions has finally arrived at games that are worth remastering.

Digging the bullet points on "responsibilities", especially the diagnosing and fixing of crashes and overflows. Seems like they want one that is able to fix all the technical bugs in these games...
Maybe we will get the long overdue 1.27 soon...


Btw, any chances that one of our programming-savvy hive community members will apply for this position (do we even have users from california?)?


What could be a better qualification for this position than first-hand thorough knowledge of all the bugs that exist in WC3? Heck, there are even people that reverse-engineer the game DLL currently...

 

[LordDz]

So in a few months, coming to your home:

Warcraft III with beautiful water and steam workshop.

 

[Ezekiel12]

The 1.27 is coming!!!

I have a strong unresonable urge to apply though living on another continent and not having enough C knowledge/experience.

 

[Nestharus]

Hm... sounds good except that this usually means industry

A minimum of 5 years’ development experience

D:

 

[DEE-BOO]

excite us

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

[Tya]

So, the age of endless rehashes and remastered versions has finally arrived at games that are worth remastering.

The language used suggests that these are "just" client updates.

 

[DaneTheBeast]

Patch 1.27 would be the second coming of Fallout 4

 

[PurgeandFire]

I'm here in CA but as Nestharus said, the 5 years of dev experience requirement cuts down any chance for anyone who isn't already in an established game industry.

But this is awesome news! Perhaps we should even make it a news post--it honestly feels like a confirmation (hopefully it will be announced at blizzcon?!).

 

[Eagle XI]

Imagine: Patch 1.27 comes out, Blademaster stays unnerfed...

 

[Mechanical Man]

I hope they will make Warcraft III finally widescreen.

 

[WhiteFang]

This is some exciting news.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Would actually think of applying if it was not a faceless cooperation in America.

•A minimum of 5 years’ development experience

As if they would get anyone passionate with that requirement... They are all busy doing other things. They just want a code monkey who can hack around until stuff vaguely works.

In case people get their hopes up, this is actually to address the following problems.

• No CASC support.
• No modern OSX support.
• Bugged D3D support on Windows 10.

I doubt it will fix any of the underlying issues with WC3.

With Diablo II it will address the following...

• No CASC support.
• No OSX support (unsure).
• Terrible D3D and D2D performance.
• Some small bugs which were reported 10 years ago.

 

[Mechanical Man]

You don't really need some passionate... just pay him and he'll do the job...

 

[Dr Super Good]

just pay him and he'll do the job...

You do if you want value for money. Otherwise you will get worse stuff out than you gave him to start with.

 

[WhiteFang]

In case people get their hopes up, this is actually to address the following problems.
No CASC support.
No modern OSX support.
Bugged D3D support on Windows 10.

Welll,I still appreciate these stuff.I do have Windows 10 after all

 

[Pub]

I shit my pants reading this, but I am cautious with Blizzard's recent track record. Hype is hype and I've seen many friends hype about a new game/sequel only to not hear about it again a week later.

 

[WhiteFang]

I shit my pants reading this, but I am cautious with Blizzard's recent track record. Hype is hype and I've seen many friends hype about a new game/sequel only to not hear about it again a week later.

Yeah,like P.T

 

[sentrywiz]

Well I understand that Blizzard is Blizzard and they want quality - but does it really matter if its 1 year or 5 years of experience if you can get the job done + you have passion for wc3.

I'd really like if someone from Hive gets the job. That by itself means quality of warcraft updates.

 

[LordDz]

If you have the experience needed to get the job done, just apply with your CV and explain it in the personal letter.

 

[Spellbound]

Ok, so idk if this is the case worldwide, but sometimes the 'experience required' is often used as a filter for unmotivated people. If you look at the experience needed and you technically don't have it, but still decide to apply, employers tend to see this as a sign that you want the job more than others and are prepared to work harder. It also cuts down on the number of applications sent in

You could say it increases their chances of getting quality employees, even though those do not match the prerequisite experience needed. Then again, it's Blizzard, so probably not a 'bluff'.

 

[Dr Super Good]

The experience is needed because the application is for a team leader. Anyone without the experience will be discarded immediately.

 

[PurgeandFire]

^Yep. I'd be happy to work as an underling as soon as a position is available.

 

[EloTheMan]

As with all other types of work places, team leaders and managers are bottlenecks for the workers and the quality output. So they are probably not joking about the demands on team leader positions.

Blizzard knows that touching classic games is a sensitive area and if they mess up at the first step in the process it will all trickle down the line and end up with bad results.

I think its nice that they are giving the game some new life. Augmented reality Warcraft when?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Even I have considered such a thing. Unfortunately its too far away and too unlikely for me to even consider. They would likely take someone local anyway as less paper work that way.

 

[StoPCampinGn00b]

It'd be even more interesting if anyone from Hive or our affiliates works for blizzard or is applying.

 

[Dr Super Good]

1 went to Ubisoft and worked on Rayman and other games. I think at least 2 others went on to other gaming companies.

 

[Spellbound]

Well, apparently it's just for maintenance:

[Update: Oh! Blizzard told GameSpot it’s simply to maintain them. Dreams are always so short-lived. Hey, maybe do consider revamping them though! That would be lovely. Official support for modern resolutions in Diablo II would be a grand start.]

Doesn't rule out some nifty patches

Full post here

 

[Dr Super Good]

WC3 might get some basic wide screen support (similar to SC2 and D3 with only some wide screen resolutions, not all). It might also have some bugs fixed.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Why would "just maintain" be a bad thing? That is exactly what the community wants. Nobody needs new content for WC3. All we want are long overdue bugfixes and Bnet changes (Hosting games).

 

[Dethret]

Why would it be worse? If he gets paid, this person will most likely do their best to fix any problems and/or new features/updates that is requested,
seeing as this person should have at least 5 years of experience, none with that amount of experience would throw their job away just because "i am not passionate enough".
They get paid and they will do it just fine.

 

[Dr Super Good]

this person will most likely do their best to fix any problems and/or new features/updates that is requested

His best might be hitting the computer with a banana though...

seeing as this person should have at least 5 years of experience

Experience does not make you good.

 

[Dethret]

A person with considerable experience in a specific field can gain a reputation as expert.

So yes, it does. I do like The banana part tough. We will just have to wait and see, whatever comes, it can't be bad.

 

[Nestharus]

Maybe I should apply? : P

I do have a trusty banana. It's a few years old, but it still has a little shape to it : D.

 

[Dethret]

Sorry, you need at least 5 years of banana.

 

[WhiteFang]

Sorry, you need at least 5 years of banana.

Such a shame,I could have joined myself had it not been for that

 

[Bribe]

I would love to see them recompile the editor with more API. I wish they would release the source code for the community to add the desired features and then send it back to them so they can patch it officially.