Blizzard Levels & More Achievements Coming

An

interview with World of Warcraft lead designer Jeff Kaplan on MTV Multiplayer
from the other day (thanks Mike Martinez and

Joystiq) reveals that Blizzard plans on implementing achievements into many
games, including Diablo III and StarCraft II, which is not that
surprising considering plans for WoW achievements have already been
unveiled (story). These achievements will be tied to what are
described as "new Blizzard accounts," which will lead to player's having a
"Blizzard Level." Word is: “Eventually, our plans are for the Achievement
system to become an account-based system,” he explained.

When the new Blizzard Accounts are active, a player’s ‘WoW’ points can be added
to an overall score dubbed an account holder’s “Blizzard Level.” “It’s basically
a gamerscore,” Kaplan said, when I made reference to Xbox Live’s Achievement
system. “For now the points are just a ‘WoW’ character score. As we graduate to
that Blizzard Account system, which is right on the horizon, it will switch over
to a Blizzard Level.”

He added, “Your ‘WoW’ score would be just one factor that will go into your
Blizzard Level. And rather than call it a ’score,’ we just wanted it to be like
you’re leveling up on Blizzard games… You’ll have this Blizzard identity, and
you’ll be able to see things like ‘Oh, this guy was great at Diablo III, but he
never played Starcraft and he was mediocre in WoW.’ That sort of thing.”


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