‘Blizzard All-Stars’ Still In The Works, Blizzard Says

It’s been quite awhile since Blizzard has had anything to say about Blizzard All-Stars , formerly known as Blizzard DOTA, but don’t take that as a bad sign — Blizzard is still working on it.

That’s according to StarCraft 2 production director Chris Sigaty, who said as much in an interview with Eurogamer , in which the developer explained why Blizzard has kept so quiet about the game.

“We’re actively working on it,” he said. “That I can confirm. A lot of the stuff that’s remaining right now that we need to focus on are the systems necessary to pull off a game with a different business model than StarCraft 2.”

That business model, in case you were wondering, is free-to-play; it’s fast becoming the most popular choice for online games on the PC, and both Riot Games (League of Legends ) and Valve (Dota 2 ) are successfully employing the business model with their own MOBA games.

“StarCraft 2 is a box. We intend to do something different with the business model in Blizzard All-Stars, something more closely resembling the other types of games in that genre, the MOBA-style games that are out there today, and being able to sell smaller amounts of things to players, the things they want.”

Originally, Blizzard was going to make Blizzard All-Stars a custom game for StarCraft 2, meaning you’d need a copy of that to play it. However, it seems the developer has since had a change of heart.

“We’ll go into more details about that in the future but I suspect you will not have to have StarCraft 2 to play [Blizzard All-Stars],” he explained. “We’re definitely emphasising it as its own product in the future.”