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| - I would like to suggest that the Blizzard-authorized novels be moved up with the Blizzard-published ones, or at the very least above Retribution and Insurrection. The various novels, while not directly published by Blizzard, were written under Blizzard's supervision and approved by them prior to release. On the other hand, Blizzard had no involvement at all in Retribution and Inusrrection and merely allowed the companies that created them to do so. And, of course, Metzen's said that the novels retelling the story of the game at least are intended to be the official version. -- Dark T Zeratul 08:34, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
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| - I would like to suggest that the Blizzard-authorized novels be moved up with the Blizzard-published ones, or at the very least above Retribution and Insurrection. The various novels, while not directly published by Blizzard, were written under Blizzard's supervision and approved by them prior to release. On the other hand, Blizzard had no involvement at all in Retribution and Inusrrection and merely allowed the companies that created them to do so. And, of course, Metzen's said that the novels retelling the story of the game at least are intended to be the official version. -- Dark T Zeratul 08:34, 19 September 2007 (UTC) Blizzard has little to no oversight over several novels, actually. I don't think there was anything beyond surface oversight for Liberty's Crusade, Shadow of the Xel'Naga and Speed of Darkness. In any event, until I can get SCLegacy's copy of the Lore Interview again (their site is down), I only have half of Metzen's answer. (He gave the other half in the Q&A session, which isn't on Gamespot's video.) So the short answer is that I can make little change until I can see that video again. PsiSeveredHead 11:13, 19 September 2007 (UTC) Lord of Ascension from StarCraft Legacy might be able to get me a copy of the video. If so, I can use that as a source. But it depends on how long it takes him to get the copy to me. PsiSeveredHead 22:31, 19 September 2007 (UTC) If the StarCraft Anthology is similar to the Warcraft Archieve then we'll probably get an outline of the formation of these novels anyway. As for Blizzard's involvement, I'm guessing that at least in Liberty's Crusade there was a degree of involvement. Metzen generally set a format of novel development ever since the first Blizzard novel (Warcraft: Day of the Dragon). Chapters are submitted one at a time for proof reading. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if Shadow of the Xel'Naga and 'Speed of Darkness' were excepted from the process, as it was said in the interview that at the time of their writing, Blizzard generally wanted to avoid the 'big questions', hence producing side stories. Still, I guess they could go above Insurrection and Retribution, although they don't seem to contradict canon as far as I can tell.--Hawki 06:36, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
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