How did things suddenly become so cool?Īlmost immediately after his mod was pulled and the incident was garnering buzz on gaming sites, Winzen was offered a job by Riot Games, the makers of League of Legends, a game that itself owes much to the modding community that arose around Blizzard’s Warcraft III. But now, not only has Blizzard withdrawn its complaint, it’s extended a congratulatory hand to Winzen and invited him to Blizzard headquarters to meet its own developers. The StarCraft II community immediately cried foul, coming to the support of Ryan Winzen, a college student who used the official StarCraft Editor to create “World of StarCraft,” a mod that tried to emulate a StarCraft MMO.
This week, we reported on a StarCraft II mod creator who faced copyright infringement charges by Activision-Blizzard, when the game maker took down a video of his mod after providing him the tools to create said mod.
