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11-01-2008, 06:41 AM
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| Starcraft 2 Estimate Release Date?
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11-01-2008, 11:09 AM
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id be suprised if it came out next year. amirite?
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11-01-2008, 11:37 AM
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haha knowing blizzard i wouldn't hold my breath
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11-01-2008, 11:38 AM
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Why is best buy cheaper?
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11-01-2008, 11:42 AM
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futureshop's 1 i linked is the collector's edition
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11-01-2008, 11:48 AM
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It will definitely be out in 2009. My guess is right around this time of year. They are splitting the single player campaign into the three races. So when you buy the game, you play the Terran race. Then an expansion will come out for Protoss, then for Zerg. So the game won't be 100% complete until some time in 2010.
Of course, you'll be able to play as any race in mutliplayer, and the campaigns are each going to be very long.
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11-01-2008, 12:01 PM
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#7 | | I HERP TO YOU DERP
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best buy and futureshop always show dates that are not real
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11-01-2008, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp  It will definitely be out in 2009. My guess is right around this time of year. They are splitting the single player campaign into the three races. So when you buy the game, you play the Terran race. Then an expansion will come out for Protoss, then for Zerg. So the game won't be 100% complete until some time in 2010.
Of course, you'll be able to play as any race in mutliplayer, and the campaigns are each going to be very long. | buy the first one that comes out for the multiplayer..download the other 2  | |
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11-02-2008, 08:13 PM
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#9 | | Banned (ABWS)?
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splitting the game in 3 is stupid,
I knew SC1 will never be taken down by SC2.
SC1 = best game ever
SC2 = marketing crap.
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11-02-2008, 08:19 PM
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seriously don't know what blizzard is thinking, get 3 parts? whats the point of having 3 cdkeys? so we can re-sell them? lol ppl are obviously going to download the 2 other parts...
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11-02-2008, 08:27 PM
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#11 | | They let me be a moderator. LOL
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3 CDkeys are good since you can lan it up at home for people with more than one computer.
Makes blizzard more money
and a better Single player experience.
I can probably bet that SIngle player wont be as rushed and short like WC3.
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11-02-2008, 09:12 PM
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#12 | | Banned (ABWS)?
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The only problem is that some people really don't care so much about the storyline.
I've played SC from 1999 - 2006 actively. And 6 years of that was online Battle.net.
I beat the game and cared little for the story, but enjoyed the few cinematics it had.
In fact, I considered myself a big SC fan, yet I wouldn't be able to tell them anything about the story.
I'm actually very bad at sci-fi stories anyway.
There are a ton of RTS that probably have better storyline than SC. But they don't own. Because SC's competetive online gaming owned. And after a decade, it's still owning.
The storyline is a bonus, and while important, it's very irrelevant compared to how big SC is in battle.net compeitiveness and it's UMS games.
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11-03-2008, 04:21 AM
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#13 | | Banned By Establishment
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Do you consistently spew garbage out of your mouth?
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11-03-2008, 05:40 AM
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Originally Posted by SpuGen 3 CDkeys are good since you can lan it up at home for people with more than one computer.
Makes blizzard more money
and a better Single player experience.
I can probably bet that SIngle player wont be as rushed and short like WC3. | i thought you don't need a valid cdkey to play lan, thats why GGC works right?
also i hear the 3 parts aren't coming out at the same time, so that if more then 1 person lives in a house and play starcraft2, all of them will buy the first part of the game... i mean who would volunteer to wait maybe 1/2 year before getting the game? :s
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11-03-2008, 05:51 AM
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You could LAN at home with 1 CD Key with the original SC anyway.
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11-03-2008, 09:44 AM
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#16 | | Banned (ABWS)?
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Originally Posted by MajinHurricane Do you consistently spew garbage out of your mouth? | Who are you talking to?
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11-03-2008, 05:37 PM
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#17 | | The "You'd Know" Moderator
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Originally Posted by AzNightmare splitting the game in 3 is stupid,
I knew SC1 will never be taken down by SC2.
SC1 = Korean's Definition of Fun
SC2 = A new game | Fixed.
People like SC1 multiplayer only because it's simple and they don't need to handle many different types of units.
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11-03-2008, 06:38 PM
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^ Trust me, the game didn't last as long as it did because it had a superb storyline. If anything, the most epic game with the most epic storyline would only last until the person beat the game 2 or 3 times and the story was unfolded and told.
The online battle.net is what carried the game on for most of it's fame, and because other games were too complicated, it didn't last long while SC survived for a decade. People liked SC not because it was simple, they liked it because of it's perfection. Simple vs Complication has a fine line. Too simple makes it boring. Too complicated makes it sloppy. Perfect balance of units, spells, and overall game play makes it superb and fun to play on and on for a decade, even if the graphics are crap by now.
In the past SC discussions I've made, I've compared Chess to SC. Simply because once you're at the competitive level of the game, it really is like a chess match. Those nutty Koreans study SC openings and counters like how Russians studied Chess openings and counters. And the mid game and late game, etc. Chess cannot be anymore perfected. It's a perfectly balanced game. You try to add more different type of chess pieces into the board to make it less "simple" and you fuck up the whole game. It's pretty much the same with SC. Besides, SC is actually very complex if people are playing competitive 1 on 1. If people are just playing UMS, and comp bashing, then yeah, maybe it's not that complicated. Just mass 36 of x unit and victory.
I don't know if SC2 will be able to top SC1. I sure hope so, but it's not going to be an easy task.
And like I said, I don't see a point of splitting the game into three parts unless it was just to make more money.
I don't buy that excuse of doing so will make the single player better. If they need more time, then take more time.
Take an extra year and release the complete package.
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11-03-2008, 09:43 PM
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Beta keys are being sold for $150-$200 on avg
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11-07-2008, 02:35 PM
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I was under the impression that each game will be treated as an 'expansion'. In other words, you'll need all 3 keys yourself in order to play the game online with the last exp. (zerg) against other people with the same expansion.
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11-07-2008, 02:42 PM
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It would make more sense to make the 1st release have multiplayer with all races and one storyline and just release the rest separately OR just have everything released at once. People will buy this game regardless.
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02-01-2009, 09:36 AM
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02-01-2009, 09:43 AM
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i wont believe any release date from blizzard until i read the news "Starcraft 2 has gone gold!"
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02-01-2009, 11:57 AM
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lol wasn't the release date supposed to be Dec 2008 and now May? Once we get closer to may they're going to say Dec 2009 lol
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02-01-2009, 11:59 AM
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#25 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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i think dec 09-mar 10 is more realistic
but i say wth..it's worth the wait. blizzard games usually have pretty good support and not bugged as shit when they come out.
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