I think pretty much everyone agrees that Blizzard is a top-class game developer. The games they have put out so far are all, without exception, quality games (since they've been called Blizzard anyway). Not everyone likes every of their games, but there's no doubt it's all been quality stuff. That alone, is a good reason to love them but every once in a while they do stuff that blows me away.

Last year, they came out with patch 1.10 for Diablo II, a major patch for a game that came out 6 years earlier in june of 2000. I was pretty impressed then, but this week they did it again. This time, it's a patch for Warcraft III, a game that came out in 2002. In both cases, the games had and continue to have free multiplayer over Battle.net.

What they did this time that blows me away is that they just added new maps (again!) and even more suprising, native support for Intel Macs for Warcraft III. Now, I'm a big Mac User so I always appreciate when compagnies like Blizzard come up with Mac-compatible products. It's a small marketshare after all. But to port the game to the Intel architecture for the PowerPC code some 4.5 years after release is nothing short impressive, even if you couldn't care less about Macs.

This is why I love Blizzard so much. It's great to support such a company. I bought BC (just like the other 2.4 millions who did apparently on day 1) and I have no doubt I'll buy their next game also.