StarCraft 2 Planned for Release This Year

It will not be this year....

Meh, as far as I'm concerned, if I walk into my local game store and see "Battle.net2 required for multiplayer", I'll spend my money on something else. No LAN = No Money. MMO's aside, I'm not going to let a game company dictate when (in the case of server maint./downtime) and where I can and cannot play my game.

I've loved Blizzard since I first played Warcraft II. I've enjoyed every title they've put out and I was extremely psyched when they mentioned SC2 and Diablo3 were being developed. But I am not so much of a Fanboy as to blindly give them money for a game that is so restrictive.

I'm sure their sales will soar from all the fanboys and my $40-50 will be hardly missed, but really, I don't care. At least their sales won't be padded by me (and a few of my friends who are similarly disgusted with the No LAN idea).

*cha-ching* Milk those cash cows Blizzard!

They are just setting it up to have a LARGE drawn out franchise of expansions and titles to keep things fresh for the apparently HUGE following in places like korea.

I mean, if they can prop themselves up into a position where they can continue making content while still keeping the game fresh and relevant they have a good business model.

If anyone can pull this off its blizzard... Im not a huge RTS fan, but ill buy this and play it.

The truth is that the vast majority of people who play online did not learn the faction by playing the campaign.

I don't get why people are considering SC2 as 3 separate games. It's essentially 1 game, and 2 expansions. A lot of games get this, so this isn't something new to the pc game world. The only thing new is that they're announcing this right off the bat so we don't get people screaming WTF where's the Zerg and Protoss campaign.

the protoss version is gonna be the best one anyways

I expect 3 x full game campaign length and retail price -20% for buying multiplayer 3 times.

Three separate full games aside, I want a good figurine of Raynor for the collector's version!

I almost (but only almost) wish that they would delay this game simply so I would have more time to play all of the other games coming out before year's end (and to play through Fallout 3 again).

Also, I'm very much in the camp of considering a multi-title Starcraft 2 release to be a positive thing. Extending the single player aspect over a several year period is a great idea, though I can see it causing problems if either of the subsequent releases adds new multiplayer units. I'm not sure how they plan on handling that. For tournament (and longevity of the game) purposes, it seems logical for them to keep the multiplayer units consistent for everyone.

I think it is absolute bullship that we have to buy three versions of the same game to get the campaigns. Yet I will do it anyway because I love StarCraft. GG, they own my soul.

I don't understand why people think it's a bad thing to have 3 different Starcraft 2 games. Also, I don't mind paying 3 times for the game as I will probably spend so much time on them. Hell, if there is a collector edition for each, you can be sure I will get it every for every version.

-The single player campaign is not the same as in Starcraft 1. It has an adventure part similar to old lucasart or sierra titles between missions which will be awesome but take more time to work on. This means that the story will be much more than just little cutscenes every 5 missions.

-Much more focus on telling the story of each race.

-The game will be released earlier.

-There will be improvements to each iteration of the game meaning new units and gameplay mechanics, even for the multiplayer. I imagine there will be something like 3-4 new units per race on each following games.

-They can see what they did wrong or what the community didn't like with the first game and fix it for the following games.

-New version of the engine and maybe even battle.net which will probably result in better mod tools.

-If they can stick to their schedules like World of Warcraft, we should see a new game every year.

-Each game will be about 30 hours each instead of around 10 hours per race like in the first one.

This is well worth it just for the multi-alone.

In my face plz.

Hell, it's about time.

The gas must flow

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