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So habt ihr StarCraft noch nie gesehen! – BlizzCon-Interview (Englisch) · GameStar Podcast

• 0:11
  Danke für die Zeit. Vielleicht können.
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  Sie sich vorstellen und was ist Ihr Rolle in diesem neuen Spiel?
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  Mein Name ist Annelie Hartling. Ich bin der Associate Manager von Development
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  Operations auf dem Projekt.
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  Und mein Name ist Dan Hay und ich bin der General Manager von StarCraft und
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  der Creative Director auf dem Projekt. Das ist cool.
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  All right, so wir haben nicht gehört viel über die Game yet.
• 0:42
  So das ist going to be interessant, wie viel ihr euch tatsächlich erzählt uns über das Game.
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  Aber ja, mein erstes Frage ist, kann man ein bisschen Elaborate über was wir
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  in diesem Game, Gameplay-wise, since all we know right now is it's an open-world shooter.
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  Yeah, I think what we can talk about is just this idea that we want you to go
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  out into the open world and we want you to be able to explore.
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  So what that speaks to is the idea of, of course, we're going to have missions
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  and of course we're going to have an earnest story and cool moments and put those all together.
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  We also want you to be able to go into the open world and just sort of follow
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  your nose, just explore.
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  So we send you out into the world and you can explore, but as you look out there,
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  you can start to realize, wait a minute, there's something that I can't describe
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  right now yet to give it away, but there's something out there that I find interesting.
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  And I go and I discover moments or I discover interactions with factions or those types of things.
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  And I have those. And then what we want to be able to do is make sure that when
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  you have those interactions, that there are disruptions.
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  And this idea that as you step out into the world, the world pushes back in
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  a way you're not exactly expecting.
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  So, on the specificity of what you're doing, we look to the teaser to show you,
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  it's most likely that you're a young Marine, it's most likely that you've got
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  some armor, it's most likely that you've got this idea that you could conquer worlds.
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  I love that you're saying it's most likely, so you're the guy I'm making.
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  Yeah, well, I have to be careful, right? I have to be careful of the things I say.
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  And so, we send you out, and I think, you know, Anneli talks about this a lot
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  about the barracks, right? Tell us a little bit about the barracks. Yeah, the barracks.
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  Coming from the StarCraft, you know, the universe of StarCraft,
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  you've seen it from a completely different angle.
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  You've seen it, you know, Ariel over, you know, looking over it and to see the
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  barracks in action from the nostalgia of plane,
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  in the StarCraft universe and to have it coming in and in its full,
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  absolute glory, landing the power of that.
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  Just that moment itself with a one tiny moment is impactful.
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  You think it could be a little bit like it was with WoW back in the day because
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  then you played the strategy games and you also stepped into Azeroth and you
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  suddenly had this big, huge world and now it's going to be maybe a little like
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  that for the StarCraft players.
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  That's an interesting comparable when you think about making that sort of shift.
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  I think WoW did it really, really well and I think that we aim to give you that
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  same feeling of being able to go out and into the world.
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  Yeah. And then build these moments, right? Build these things that you've been
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  thinking about and wanting to discover. The thing is, it's got to feel authentic. Yeah.
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  I think WoW did a great job of that. And we have to be thinking about,
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  okay, how do we make it authentic? What are the hallmarks of StarCraft? It's a frontier.
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  It's pretty lawless, right? It's pretty scary, pretty dangerous.
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  And there are factions and they don't agree on anything.
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  They fight each other. They fight each other with different weaponry,
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  they fight each other with different tactics, they fight each other with different
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  dogma that they believe in.
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  And so if we provide an open world imperative like that and give you some choice
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  as you go out into it and also provide a robust story that gives you faction
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  play, I think that gets pretty spicy.
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  Ja, ich meine, das Open-World-Aspekt und das Kombination mit der Space-Game,
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  ich meine, das hat immer schon ein bisschen schwierig, zu sagen,
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  weil, kann man ein bisschen auf die Scale des Spiel?
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  Wie ist das eine eine-planet-Sache? Wie ist das vielleicht ein bisschen mit
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  den Open-World-Aspekt? Oder wie es das alles zusammenhängen ist?
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  Annelie weiß, dass ich will, diese Frage. Und Annelie weiß, dass ich nicht answer,
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  diese Frage. So here's what I'll say is, you know that we want to be generous
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  with the player and you know that we want, if the player wants to go somewhere,
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  we want them to be able to do that.
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  And that's what we want as players. We love that idea.
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  We also want to make sure that it feels intimate. One of the things that a great
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  value of bringing you down to boots on the ground is that there's moments where
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  you're going to have to fight for your life and it's you against somebody or something else.
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  And it feels like it's like you can almost smell it. It's right there and put you in that moment.
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  So in terms of its scope and its gravitas, we need to have small intimate moments.
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  We need to have moments of loss. We need to have moments of camaraderie.
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  Then we got to have the big moments. We got to have moments where you're in
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  full battle mode, where you are...
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  How do I describe this without using larger words? I think the teaser probably
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  did a very good job of showing you the very tip of the iceberg of that today.
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  The character lands, they're being deployed, they come out of the barracks,
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  and the door opens and you hear a huge sound.
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  And the overlords are coming in and the Zerg are in the distance and you can see them coming across.
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  And in the distance beyond that, you can see a little bit of architecture that
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  nobody's picked up on yet, which is interesting.
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  And you can feel the breadth of the scope of that standoff moment just imagine that en masse.
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  What I was also wondering since with your previous game you have always sort
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  of like you've been sort of like the creator of an archetype of an open world game that has been,
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  influenced so many open world games and probably even what we think is an open
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  world game at this time has your perspective changed What do you think,
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  the next generation of open world games can do better or different than the
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  sort of formula we've been having for so many years now?
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  I think the first thing I would say about that is it wasn't just me.
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  I can't take credit. It's super important. There are so many smart people who
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  came up with that and I got lucky enough to be one part of that.
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  And I want to pay reverence to that. But when I think about the nature of a
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  formula or I think about the nature of, um, the idea of how you make that open
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  world game, there's tons of opportunities.
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  I think just with faction play alone.
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  Just with that, you have this wonderful opportunity in an open-world game.
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  We haven't seen a ton of that. We haven't seen that the enemy of my enemy is
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  a tool to be used against that enemy.
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  We haven't seen that interplay. We haven't seen the idea that it's asymmetrical.
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  What's cool about when you're playing open-world games is a lot of the times
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  you're fighting another enemy that's a lot like you.
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  What happens when they aren't? What happens if you can't reason with them?
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  What happens if they don't have Gauss rifles, but what they have is talons and
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  venom? Und sie wollen sie schocken wie ein Oyster.
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  Was passiert wenn du jemanden mit einem Partikel-Webens? Das ist nicht mehr so viel zu reden.
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  Was passiert wenn du diese Asymmetrical-Player und du hast einen Weg zu finden,
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  dass das Ding, das Ding, das Ding, so dass du sie kann, weil wenn du es auf
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  deinem eigenen, du wirst du es nicht. Das ist wo Dinge geteinander.
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  Es ist ein bisschen mehr so ein survivaler approach zu Dinge,
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  wie wir sehen mit Metro-Series, für den Beispiel.
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  Ich denke, wenn du über Survival-Games hast, A lot of times people think about
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  survival games where it's super punitive sometimes and you got to go out and
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  fight for every single little thing.
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  I think there will be elements of that. But I think what's important is we also
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  have to make the world feel generous.
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  It has to feel both beautiful and enticing, but also dangerous.
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  So I think you got to be able to go out and feel like it's a bit like walking
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  into a big box store filled with really dangerous enemies who are trying to kill you.
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  Da muss man sich auf die das du kannst und du kannst, okay, was kann ich das
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  tun? Wie kann ich das tun? Wie kann ich das so dass mein Armour und die ich care about ist, dass ich,
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  Und noch einen Towers zu bauen?
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  Great question. Great question. Du bist der erste Person zu fragen. Great question.
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  Und ich werde nur smile. Okay. Das ist gut. Ja, okay. So, die Fakten Interaktion
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  mit einem anderen, scheint es zu sein, wird ein sehr dynamischer System.
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  Aber ist es auch noch ein solcher, mehr linearer Main-Story,
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  dass wir dann auch noch ein weitergehen können? Und dann haben wir eine Sidecrests
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  über das? Oder ist die ganze Sache ein sehr dynamices Narrative?
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  Ich denke, wenn du es über das, wir haben es ein paar verschiedene Worte,
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  in terms of wie wir operieren.
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  Aber was wirklich wichtig ist, für die Spieler, die wollen eine Immersive Narrative-Moment
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  haben, sie müssen sie haben es.
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  Und players who wollen be able to have an open world action adventure they have
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  to be able to have it and if you smash those things so that it's one taste all
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  the time and everything is dynamic and disruptive all the time it becomes a bit of a soup,
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  so you got to be careful it's like a piece of music right you got to be able to make it so that.
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  I go and I have a mission and I really really fight to be able to survive that mission,
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  and then after 20 minutes or 30 minutes I take a minute and I like okay I need
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  to go out in the open world I need to get I need to get better,
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  I need to get stronger, I need to be able to find something,
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  I need to go and get help, I need to go and figure out a way to get stronger.
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  So you go out and do that for a time, and if we do our job right,
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  it won't feel like those things feel different, it will feel like they feel...
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  Interconnected. Yeah, they're connected, and they feel like they're complementary. So...
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  We spend the time going back and forth between those two realities and then
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  we also have other realities that I won't talk about too much,
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  which are moments that all of those things come together and form a battle, form danger.
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  It's interesting to me because it really seems like there are some elements
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  in there that you took from Odyssey, of course, the game you worked before.
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  And I know that some of the developers also are working on this game now.
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  And it almost feels like at least some elements are maybe what you were planning there.
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  I think there are a lot of elements that we kind of, you know,
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  we play a lot of games. We think about a lot of games. We love games.
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  And I think the thing for us is like, what's amazing about Blizzard is Blizzard has a very deep bench.
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  It's got an awful lot of talent. And what's good about it is that we've got
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  people who've worked on the original Starcraft. We've got people who have made
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  different types of games.
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  And one of the things you don't want to do is you don't want to make it so that it's one taste, right?
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  We don't want to make it so that, like the Lore Team. Tell them about the Lore Team.
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  Yes, our Lore Team is...
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  We partner closely with them and it's legitimately like having your own library
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  archive of narrative and,
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  rich storytelling where we have what we call jam sessions where we come together,
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  we're talking and Dan likes to say yes and where.
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  You're just vibing and everyone is coming to the table with their different
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  There are different ideas and lore is there as well, leading the way with like,
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  this is the legacy, this is the universe.
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  Oh, that's great. And we could do this. So it's, Dan had mentioned earlier,
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  he used the words, some robust storytelling. And I think that's very conservative.
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  It's, you know, that I, for the Starcraft universe, it is robust,
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  robust and some don't go together in my, in my vocabulary.
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  Aber ich denke, mit dem LORE-Team und der Genie, das wir jetzt haben auf dem
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  Team haben, all das combined ist, dass das absolut robust wird.
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  Also, auf dem LORE-Team ist, kannst du uns ein bisschen über die Spiel ist,
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  in der StarCraft-Universität?
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  Es ist ein bisschen passiert, aber ist es ein ganzes Zeitpunkt?
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  Might we even see some characters that we already know from the strategy games?
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  Anything you can tell us on that? Yes, it does take place in the Korporlu sector,
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  70 years after the events of the Legacy of the Void.
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  So there's some roadway for us to play with there. And...
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  Es gibt uns Raum zu grow und expandieren, aber wir sind noch nicht mehr,
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  wenn wir uns wieder zurückkehren.
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  Wenn wir uns wiederholfen oder reintrodufen oder reintrodufen,
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  ist es noch genug Zeit in da, dass es nicht komplett aus der Ordnung ist,
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  oder aus der Clear Blue, wenn jemand zurückkehlt.
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  70 Jahre ist eine gute Zeit.
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  Es ist eine gute Zeit. Es ist eine gute Zeit, aber es ist nicht so lange.
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  Ich liebe die Lange der Reference. Es ist gut.
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  Es ist reverenz und Reference in terms von wie wir denken über das.
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  Die Lore Team, die Annelie ist über, sehr smarte Leute haben,
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  sie haben alle Bücher, sie kennen alle, wie Sie die Wikipedia- Ja,
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  die Wikipedia- Und sie sind wirklich unglaublich.
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  Und was gut ist, ist manchmal, wenn du mit einem IP und es ist,
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  No, you can't do that, you can't do that, you can't do that, you can't do that.
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  And you need to fill up this TPS report in triplicate, and you're like.
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  Okay, this isn't like that. This is like, hey, we have a cool idea.
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  And has this ever been done before? Like, yes, it was done here.
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  This is what they use. This is super cool. This is the character you could use. And you're like, okay.
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  And if we did this, oh no, try this. And you're like, okay, great.
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  And then to Annalise's point, what the 70 years-ish window gives us is it gives
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  us the ability to make it so that we have real estate to be able to make our own story,
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  and make sure that it is still canon, that it's still like something that is
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  going to be true und es geht nicht auf die Dinge, die vorherrungen sind.
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  Aber wenn wir eine Leverage-A-Charakter haben, wenn wir etwas von der Vergangenheit
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  haben, wenn wir etwas von der Vergangenheit haben, wenn wir etwas super cool
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  haben, wir haben einfach über die Lore-Team und sagen, was du denkst?
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  Und sie sind, okay, das, das, das und das ist. Was du denkst?
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  Und wir sind, okay, wir sind. Ist die Lore-Team, sind die Leute,
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  die haben gearbeitet, auf die Strategie-Games?
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  Wir haben viele Leute, die auf die Strategie-Games haben, auf unsere Team.
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  So, wie ich gesagt habe, Blizzard hat eine Deep-Bench. Wir haben viele Leute,
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  die kann kommen. Und die andere Sache ist, ist es hat eine Discerne-Palette.
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  So, if we have a thing where we're like, oh, this is really,
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  really cool, and somebody plays it and goes, that's cool, but to be a little
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  bit more authentic, you might want to think about this.
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  And you go, oh, that we hadn't concerned. And this is how the science works in this space.
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  And that's the other thing you want, is you want to make sure that things feel
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  logical. You want to be able to step into the world.
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  And we all have those games where we get into where you've got to open a door
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  and it doesn't open the way you think. oder wo die Fahrer ist,
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  wo es nicht funktioniert.
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  Es erodes Ihre confidence in den Spiel, wenn du nicht die Möglichkeit hast,
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  zu picken ein Ding und benutzen es wie man erwartet.
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  Und was gut ist, dass StarCraft fühlt sich sehr familiar zu heute.
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  A lot of die Themen, die in unserem Leben gehen, da ist ein Angst,
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  wenn wir uns ansehen, wie wir uns über die Leute sprechen und sprechen, nicht alle alle agree.
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  You could almost argue that, you know, people fighting over resources and the
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  feeling of almost factions.
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  And you go, change oil and different things to minerals and Vespine gas and
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  change factions. And all of a sudden it feels very topical.
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  Yes, I mean, many fantasy games also are based on this idea of different races,
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  different factions. Right.
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  Just to make sure, since you haven't specifically said it, but this is going
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  to be all single player? Is it going to have a multiplayer component to it?
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  Are you even speaking? So we're kind of staying close to the chest on that one for now.
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  Our focus right now is making sure that the story and that the sanctity of the
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  single player adventure is great.
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  And so that's our focus is on making a contained story with a beginning and
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  a middle and end. und mit einem Charakter.
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  Ein Named Charakter, das wir können haben, hat eine Voice. Du kannst noch wählen,
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  in der Art von der Art, wie du willst, aber von der Art, die du bist,
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  wir wollen, dass es so gut ist, dass es so gut ist, die Charakter hat eine Opinion,
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  hat eine Voice und hat eine Thoughts.
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  Okay, aber ist es Dialog-Choices? Oder ist die Dialog-Fix? Und du kannst deine Customization?
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  Ich denke, es ist mehr über die Geschichte, dass wir die Story das wir wollen.
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  Und so, wir werden dich durch das, wir werden uns auf verschiedene adventures
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  und was nicht in terms of das. So, wir sind wirklich auf die Geschichte. Okay.
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  Wie weit weit sind wir in der,
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  Entwicklung? Du kannst nicht sagen, wie genau, aber wie du startest.
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  Without giving dir zu viel, wie wir begonnen haben, was ich kann sagen, ist,
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  Wenn ich das Spiel in meinem Kopf habe, und was ich meine, was ich habe,
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  ich kann es für ein paar Jahre spielen. Correct. Es ist,
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  nicht Vaporware, es ist nicht so, wie wir wissen, was wir machen,
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  wir haben eine Vision für was wir wollen, was wir wollen.
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  The date. The date tells you how focused we are. The date tells you that there's
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  a frame around what we're making.
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  We look at it and we go, hey, let's have a conversation about what we're doing.
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  This is great. This is really cool. I'm like, okay, can we get it done by that? The answer's nope.
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  Okay, so let's focus on what we can get done. Let's focus on what can be great for the players.
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  And so for us, we are very focused on hitting that date.
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  Sehr deliberate in our focus and passion about the date.
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  I don't know. It was like, I mean, Blizzard is known for announcing games very
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  early and saying like, okay, it's coming out in a few years,
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  but this is for sure. This is a few years.
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  I know, it's just a few years, yeah.
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  But it'll be, I mean, it was quite an impact. Yeah, we're working hard.
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  We've got a great team. It was super cool to see the team und sie haben hier gearbeitet.
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  Und sie haben hier gearbeitet. Und jetzt haben sie eine Chance für ihre Familien
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  zu beherentwickeln, zu sehen es.
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  Wir wirklich wollten, dass wir die Spiel Wir haben auch die Gravitas von Blizzcon.
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  Und es hat sich, wie es alle und ihre Familie und einfach die Kraft, die Liebe und die Liebe.
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  Und dann auch, wir haben auch, wir haben, wir haben. Das war ein cool Moment,
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  dass du auch die Team und sie waren Ich glaube, es hat mich wirklich auf den
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  Markt gehalten. Es ist auch so laut.
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  Es hat eine persönliche Geschichte über die Flying back in der Zeit.
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  Es ist eine true Geschichte. Ja. Es ist eine sehr gute Geschichte.
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  Ich kann nicht believe das. Vielen Dank. Das war ein sehr, sehr interessantes
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  Talk. Und wir sind sehr, sehr froh. Wir freuen uns über die Game.
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  Awesome. Anytime du willst, wenn du etwas möchtest. Wir wissen,
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  wenn du es willst. Sounds gut. Vielen Dank. Vielen Dank.