Blizzard to announce new game next month!

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I really liked WoW, but if every Blizzard game has a monthly fee, they can kiss my ass man.

Forgive me for not keeping up with the thread, I just see the word Blizzard and don't even get interested enough to look except that I'm wondering what everyone is discussing in here.

It's a shame when good games come for bad consoles, or charge a monthly fee to play. I realize updating and maintaining servers, and paying employees, bandwidth, and equipment is expensive, but they are obviously making a killing on us. I refuse to be one of the ones that supports the high prices of it.

Phantasy Star Online was free for years, and when it went up to 7.99 a month or whatever, I was very disapointed, but I accepted it. It was a shame because 80% the people - the people that make the game what it is - stopped playing entirely. The only people I could play with that weren't golden spoon children were mostly japanese so I couldn't communicate.

but 7.99 isn't too bad, but I won't pay any more than that. What is WoW anyway, I forget. It's like $15 a month? Well that's .50 a day. It's totally not bad if you play it everyday, but I don't have much time to play, so I'm done with monthly fees. They should have a .50 a day option then. :thumbs:

-VT2
 
If you can afford PC gaming, you can afford WoW. Let's not get indignant about recurrent fees.

In any case, monthly fees or not, I'm buying it.
 
Absinthe said:
If you can afford PC gaming, you can afford WoW. Let's not get indignant about recurrent fees.

In any case, monthly fees or not, I'm buying it.
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It's not that I can't afford it, I just don't have the time to devote to it, so it would be a waste of money.

I would get to play maybe 5 hours a week. I don't want to spend that much time doing anything... well, nothing I'd talk about.

I've never tried any of Blizzards games except WoW though, and it was great, but not my favorite.
 
I actually hope it has a monthly fee. What they did with Diablo 2 was you had to log the characters a certain amount of time per month or they were deleted, which resulted in me losing years worth of items and really pissed me off.

Unless you're either a) a druggie or b) a kid too young to have a job, $15 a month really isn't that bad.

Also if the new game is Starcraft and not Diablo, I'm going to be very angry.

[EDIT] Oh, and if you only have 5 hours a week to dedicate, then MMOs aren't for you. Monthly fees don't matter. I can tell you right now that playing Warcraft for 5 hours a week will take you months to get even simple quests done. You can be in a single instance for 2-3 hours at any given time.
 
I like the pattern the blizzard website is showing for game releases. Look closely at the games they go like this... Warcraft x2, diablo, starcraft, diablo, warcraft x2, *surprise*. If they are releasing games in this pattern then I think it will be another Diablo game with starcraft being released next on the list :).
 
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I like the pattern the blizzard website is showing for game releases. Look closely at the games they go like this... Warcraft x2, diablo, starcraft, diablo, warcraft x2, *surprise*. If they are releasing games in this pattern then I think it will be another Diablo game with starcraft being released next on the list :).
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Starcraft would have been next on the list, though, if not for Starcraft Ghost basically being cancelled.
 
Yorick said:
[EDIT] Oh, and if you only have 5 hours a week to dedicate, then MMOs aren't for you.
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That was more my point than the issue with the money.

But if it was free, I could play it for 5 hours a week and not feel like an idiot for paying the monthly fee.


Don't get me wrong I like MMORPG's. I think it's an awesome way of playing games, or I wouldn't have commented.
 
VirusType2 said:
That was more my point than the issue with the money.

But if it was free, I could play it for 5 hours a week and not feel like an idiot for paying the monthly fee.

Don't get me wrong I like MMORPG's. I think it's an awesome way of playing games, or I wouldn't have commented.
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Oh, I definitely see what you mean. I was just saying that even if it was free, 5 hours a week really isn't enough time to get anything done in World of Warcraft.
 
Yorick said:
I actually hope it has a monthly fee. What they did with Diablo 2 was you had to log the characters a certain amount of time per month or they were deleted, which resulted in me losing years worth of items and really pissed me off.

Unless you're either a) a druggie or b) a kid too young to have a job, $15 a month really isn't that bad.

Also if the new game is Starcraft and not Diablo, I'm going to be very angry.

[EDIT] Oh, and if you only have 5 hours a week to dedicate, then MMOs aren't for you. Monthly fees don't matter. I can tell you right now that playing Warcraft for 5 hours a week will take you months to get even simple quests done. You can be in a single instance for 2-3 hours at any given time.
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Yea it is...

I still play StarCraft to this day. If it had a $15 per month price tag, and I've been playing it since release, I would have already spent $1600... Why the _hell_ would anyone willingly pay that? Doesn't matter how much you make, it's not the initial $15, it's the long-term cost of it.

For people who've played WoW since it first came out, they've paid like 540 already for it. That's insane.
 
I cant take this any longer, announce the game already!
 
Iced_Eagle said:
Yea it is...

I still play StarCraft to this day. If it had a $15 per month price tag, and I've been playing it since release, I would have already spent $1600... Why the _hell_ would anyone willingly pay that? Doesn't matter how much you make, it's not the initial $15, it's the long-term cost of it.

For people who've played WoW since it first came out, they've paid like 540 already for it. That's insane.
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Annnd you spend like $1200-2000 a year on gasoline. The average Smoker spends over $100 a month on cigarettes.

Life itself is expensive. At least with warcraft you're doing something you enjoy.

And Starcraft isn't a good comparison because it's a completely different type of game and wouldn't warrant a monthly price like that.

Kouler said:
I cant take this any longer, announce the game already!
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Yeah, 3.5 more hours ><
 
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As long as the next game Blizzard does is a Starcraft game, they have my money. It's been years since starcraft, it's about damn time there was another one.
 
I heard the event has started now. Expect updates soon
 
Guess what...

3:00 - FMV sequence in a spaceship - looks Terran - zooming in on a metal door - door opening - reveals a guy with a cigar in chains - prisoner - door shuts behind him - there's so much bass the room is shaking - guy steps into some kind of metallic devicce - legs are strapped in - guy rising toward ceiling - Korean text on screen got people very excited - another part of the machine is dropping metal arms on him - machine whirring - applying armor to his torso - extremly detailed visuals here - now guy is strapping on gloves - armor is molding together - seems like a Terran marine - rockets turn on - zerg now onscreen - Marine delivers a line - StarCraft 2 officially announced.
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Looks like they're about to show gameplay footage too.
 
STARCRAFT 2 ANNOUNCED
3:00 - FMV sequence in a spaceship - looks Terran - zooming in on a metal door - door opening - reveals a guy with a cigar in chains - prisoner - door shuts behind him - there's so much bass the room is shaking - guy steps into some kind of metallic devicce - legs are strapped in - guy rising toward ceiling - Korean text on screen got people very excited - another part of the machine is dropping metal arms on him - machine whirring - applying armor to his torso - extremly detailed visuals here - now guy is strapping on gloves - armor is molding together - seems like a Terran marine - rockets turn on - zerg now onscreen - Marine delivers a line - StarCraft 2 officially announced.
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3:07 - Showing gameplay footage - Looks like protoss ships - floating over asteroid/ base structure - entering protoss ase - similar looking buildings - vespene gas still in the game - character pane shows up on right side - some protoss guy - shifts to terran bases floating on rockets over same type of territory - sill collecting crystals as resources - marines load out. Dustin is actually playing the game - nothing in the game is final.
 
3:09 - controlling protoss zealots - still has psi blades and personal shield - new charge ability that let him quickly close range on enemies. Siege tanks shown - still the same type of behavior where they can lock down - take out zealots really quickly - new protoss unit - called immortals - have special shield that only activates upon being powerfully attacked - siege tanks could barely do any damage to them.

3:10 - Terran reapers - can hop across unever terrain with jump packs - two types of small pistols that don't activate immortals. Protoss now have the ability to create shields whereever they want. Protoss can now warp in units from manufacturing facilities anything within pylon range. New protoss unit - stalker - can teleport - quadripedal thing - can keep blinking forward - seems to be a shot cooldown on the ability. Zerg start coming in, giant worms pop out of ground unleasing zerglings. Protoss can use phase fields and teleporting abilities to create an army anywhere on the battlefield, according to Blizzard.
 
Like it could have been anything else.

*psst, I haven't actually played the full first game :eek:*
 
3:14 - Protoss colossus - huge unit that can blast out dual lasers and use long legs to traverse differences in terrain height - in the demo two of them obliterate about fifty or so zerglings.

3:15 - Zerglings can mutate into suicidal bomb things thar roll across the ground - very powerful explosions. Colossus using new IK system to move across differences in terraing height. Colossus extremley weak against air strike - New unit for protoss - Pheonix - can overcharge guns for multiple projectile blast - but after blast the ship is rendered inert for a short period.

3:16 - showing space platform environment, land mass floating over planets / nebulae. Showing phoenix units failing to destroy terran battle cruisers - new protoss unit - Warprey - flying unit that does increased damage the longer it hits a target with it's continuous blue laser.


3:18 - warprey also very effective against structures - very vulnerable to small unit fire - shws warpreys getting wiped out by terran marines. Physics system lets debris from warpreys roll down a ramp. Showing one more unit - warped in in a serious of cubes - giant floating base - called a protoss mothership - can only have 1 at a time - cost big resources - special abilities include timebomb that slows all enemy missiles inside - shows terran missle launcher shooting in projectiles that stop in the field before they reach the ship - when field ends missiles drop the ground - planet cracker attack - giant lasers stream from ship to ground - ship can be moved around while planet cracker laser is active - the ship looks like a metallic, triangular sand dollar - mothership can create a black hole anywhere it wannts to - creates distortion that actually sucks ships in and destroys them - in the demo the black hole destroyed four terran battle cruisers in about ten seconds.
 
Daaammmmmnnn.... Sounds like Protoss are getting some overpowered shit!
 
What we need now are the videos they are showing. Blizzard's homepage hasn't been updated yet.
 
3:18 - warprey also very effective against structures - very vulnerable to small unit fire - shws warpreys getting wiped out by terran marines. Physics system lets debris from warpreys roll down a ramp. Showing one more unit - warped in in a serious of cubes - giant floating base - called a protoss mothership - can only have 1 at a time - cost big resources - special abilities include timebomb that slows all enemy missiles inside - shows terran missle launcher shooting in projectiles that stop in the field before they reach the ship - when field ends missiles drop the ground - planet cracker attack - giant lasers stream from ship to ground - ship can be moved around while planet cracker laser is active - the ship looks like a metallic, triangular sand dollar - mothership can create a black hole anywhere it wannts to - creates distortion that actually sucks ships in and destroys them - in the demo the black hole destroyed four terran battle cruisers in about ten seconds.
 
3:23 - now showing terran and protoss fight - marines and zealots clashing on the ground - mothership and battle crusers in the air - framerate seems relatively stable as more units stream in - hard to tell - about 100 units on screen right now - a few of the new protoss units just came in - nuclear launch detected warning - every unit on screen destroyed - three nukes were launched at once - then zergs rush in and spell "GG" while turning into suicidal bombs.
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Sweet.
 
"2:13 - Korean press in center of floor seating is yelling and doing the wave."

Amazing
 
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Update: The biggest news at Blizzard's WWI event so far is that a techno rendition of "Dancing Queen" is playing in the main plaza. The event itself is quickly filling with Blizzard fans. Since it's taking place in the Seoul's Olympic Village near the Gymnastics Staduim, there's plenty of outdoors space to set up oddities. It's almost like a county fair, right now. Just replace all the creepy, dilapidated murals of clowns with a Burning Crusade Blood Elf and the Protoss face used in the original StarCraft's box art.

Just before the announcement...
 
3:26 - Showing another video of "things to come." concept art for SC2 - zerg landscapes - ruined terran structures - freen filds - SC2 looks, at least visually, strikingly similar to SC1 - both in unit and map designs. Now showing a giant rush of zerglings - probably over 100 of them, swarming with no slowdown - mroe character art - finishes with the StarCraft II logo.
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Also Sweet, I really like the original Starcraft's art style, glad they are keeping that look.
 
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Link.

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I can't access the homepage but I can access the images on it like this in-game one




Edit 2:
More IGN updates

3:50 - Blizzard has not yet announced a release date for StarCraft 2.

3:44 - Had to run out of conference room to plug in laptop - there's an hour long information session starting in about 30 minutes - don't know if there's an internet connection there so I might not be able to update until i get back. As for initial StarCraft 2 impressions - the game looked very similar to SC1 - nearly identical user interface - graphic styles and unit proportions nearly the same - more flashy lighting effects but it seems like Blizzard didn't want to mess with SC's underlying formula very much. The screens they showed the video on didn't display the video very clearly, unfortunately, but the game still looked pretty with some nice animations. We'll have to wait to bring you any updates on what kind of story elements are in SC2 - hopefully they're in the panel discussion. Anyway, gotta run - thanks for reading and we'll update as soon as possible.

3:31 - Announcements are over - transitioning into a musical act - hopefully it's not as bad as the music they were playing before the ceremony.
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Well finally, after 9 years, comes the announcement of Starcraft 2. Great news.
 
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