starcraft ii will be 3 different products??

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TBH sounds like 3 games for the price of 3.
 
This is horrible.
I have to pay for 3 different campaigns?
What the f*ck man, the only reason I even like Starcraft is for the singleplayer. :(

The campaigns better be ****ing amazing and not short as all hell.
 
That's amazing. Truly unbelievable. I'm sure Blizzard fans will eat it up though ... and attack anyone who suggests they might just be grossly exploiting their rabid fanbase.

I haven't played a Blizzard game I liked since the original StarCraft, so I'm not too bothered. But if a game I cared about did this ... I'd be ****in pissed.
 
Okay the shacknews article has some more details than the kotaku one and doesn't make it sound as bad but i'm still really annoyed.
 
To me, this is an indication that Blizzard will stop at nothing to milk every last drop of cash out of their fans (like they have with WoW and all it's various paid features). This is honestly a stupid idea... I'm sure everyone wants to be able to play the campaign from all 3 perspectives to see how the races have changed from SC right off the bat. Instead, they're making us buy the game in 3 pieces for probably double the price of a normal game with no added multiplayer content.
 
Is this even confirmed by Blizzard?

I want an official announcement regarding this.
 
The money has finally gone to Blizzard's head. :|
 
smwScott said:
That's amazing. Truly unbelievable. I'm sure Blizzard fans will eat it up though ... and attack anyone who suggests they might just be grossly exploiting their rabid fanbase.

I haven't played a Blizzard game I liked since the original StarCraft, so I'm not too bothered. But if a game I cared about did this ... I'd be ****in pissed.
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I dont think they are exploiting anyone. Its similar to what Valve is doing. The game is getting to big. So they finish 1 campaign release it work on next etc.
 
But, It's an RTS... exactly how big can it possibly be?
I'm sure they could fit all of the content on a DVD.
 
^ My thoughts exactly.

It's an RTS, and more than that, it's a rehash of the original. Same gameplay, better graphics, more units. That seems like the extent of it to me. So then, exactly how long could the campaign get? More than that, how long would you want it to get?

But whatever. It's a Blizzard property, so the fans will lap it up anyway.
 
Asuka said:
I dont think they are exploiting anyone. Its similar to what Valve is doing. The game is getting to big. So they finish 1 campaign release it work on next etc.
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Valve's last major release was the Orange box, which includes Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal - as well as HL2 and Episode 1. That's 3 new games and two old ones for the price of one.

Blizzard is taking one game and splitting it up into three separate parts to squeeze out more money from customers without having to invest more development time.

Those two actions don't seem similar to me at all. In fact you couldn't have picked a more polar opposite business strategy.
 
smwScott said:
Valve's last major release was the Orange box, which includes Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal - as well as HL2 and Episode 1. That's 3 new games and two old ones for the price of one.

Blizzard is taking one game and splitting it up into three separate parts to squeeze out more money from customers without having to invest more development time.

Those two actions don't seem similar to me at all. In fact you couldn't have picked a more polar opposite business strategy.
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Not fully comparing them to Valve, no one can touch Valve, just saying they split up StarCraft 2 similar to Valve and Half-Life 3
 
Still no Aussie WOW server, and I bet the new battlenet will lack one too. WAR hasn't anywhere as near as many players down here and yet Mythic have got 5 worlds up. Blizzard will go after all the money they can.
 
This is a horrible idea..I've already posted my opinion about it on the facepunch forums, and I won't use the same language I used on there on hl2.net. But this is insane, I thought Blizzard cared about making good games, not just making money. Well, that's just what I assumed after being a dedicated blizzard fan since Diablo 1 came out. guess I was wrong.
 
This is ridiculous. They're clearing trying to wring all of the money they can out of this, since they know people will buy them
 
The campaigns are planned as concentrated, epic storylines, with enough content to justify a full release. As a result, the games will now feature more in-game cinematics and story content.
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Sounds good. I'm sure the expansions won't be full price and if they offer enough content I don't have a problem with this.
 
Kyorisu said:
Still no Aussie WOW server, and I bet the new battlenet will lack one too. WAR hasn't anywhere as near as many players down here and yet Mythic have got 5 worlds up. Blizzard will go after all the money they can.
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And Warhammer even managed to fill up 3 oceanic servers. On the other hand, Blizzard was still adding more oceanic "time zone" realms last time I checked because they were in such high demand, but never does it occur to them that it might actually be viable to chuck a server or two down here.

Heh, viable. Does that word even apply to Blizzard anymore?
 
If you don't like it, look at EA's sims policy. 1 full game + 8 expansions, every one costing more that original game.
 
But you don't need those to arguably finish the game (whatever goals you had). To finish SC2 means doing all 3 campaigns. Meanwhile those 8 expansions came out in order after the original product and did not all get released at once.
 
Is it just me, or are Blizzard some incredibly greedy bastards? Seriously, they've got over 10 million people paying them $15 every month, and two new games coming that are guaranteed to smash records on name recognition alone. Would it really be too much for them to give us a really massive game instead of charging us for 3? They are probably making upward of a billion dollars a year on WoW alone.
 
I think it makes sense;

So why the change? It really comes down to scope. "We always start with this really gigantic scope", Sigaty explained. Basically StarCraft II got bigger than they expected. They have a huge, solid Terran campaign that needs a bit of fleshing out at this point, and once you figure out the dev time needed for the other two campaigns it would have delayed the game for years. After months of discussion, this was their solution.
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End of. Get over it. You know youre going to buy all 3.

If anything this just fuels the hype that this game is going to rock the foundations of the RTS world. SC is still huge a decade later. Use your logic guys.
 
When Blizzard say "epic" they mean "cheesy and full of cliche".
 
What really scares me is that EA and others will decide to copy this idea.

C&C4 in 3 parts is the last thing I need!
 
That's a no buy for me. There are plenty of good rts games out there besides Starcraft.
 
ĐynastҰ said:
I think it makes sense;



End of. Get over it. You know youre going to buy all 3.

If anything this just fuels the hype that this game is going to rock the foundations of the RTS world. SC is still huge a decade later. Use your logic guys.
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Actually I was on the fence about this game in the first place, now I know I won't buy it.

I'm also going to fall back on the earlier point that RTS campaigns don't NEED to be that long, that could get tedious quickly.
 
yes I think you all think it will be like the campaign on the first one just that separated in 3 games

I think it must have a lot of things to make it that long

for example I read in singleplayer there would be units that dont appear in multiplayer to make campaigns more unique
 
It's a shitty idea, but I'll still buy all of them like the sheep I am.
 
Blizzard's lucky that they actually make quality products, otherwise I would have come to ignore them years ago.
 
I seriously love how people are over reacting. They basically tell you more starcraft is on the way and people get all THEY ARE STEALING MY MONEIES OH NOES. Seriously cry some more.
 
Asuka said:
I seriously love how people are over reacting. They basically tell you more starcraft is on the way and people get all THEY ARE STEALING MY MONEIES OH NOES. Seriously cry some more.
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We aren't all consumer whores.
 
Asuka said:
I seriously love how people are over reacting. They basically tell you more starcraft is on the way and people get all THEY ARE STEALING MY MONEIES OH NOES. Seriously cry some more.
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The fact they decided to rip apart the 3 campaigns and charge you to play them is why I'm pissed off.
There is no logical reason why can't put them all in the same game.
 
Asuka said:
I seriously love how people are over reacting. They basically tell you more starcraft is on the way and people get all THEY ARE STEALING MY MONEIES OH NOES. Seriously cry some more.
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Your opinion would count if you weren't such a corporate whore.
 
Asuka said:
I seriously love how people are over reacting. They basically tell you more starcraft is on the way and people get all THEY ARE STEALING MY MONEIES OH NOES. Seriously cry some more.
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"More Starcraft on the way" as opposed to "Full game at release". Yeah, color me excited.

Admitting that I have no insight into what happens in Blizzard's development, this does not strike me as a measure of practical necessity, but a ploy to squeeze some extra cash out of their players. They say that the pricing model is still to be worked out, but does anybody honestly expect paying any less than double the price of a full release in the long run? That's if they're generous and decide to release them at expansion prices. It only gets steeper if they think these chapters truly classify as "full-fledged games" and start charging them appropriately. I'm not going to lie and pretend to fight the man on this one, seeing as how I've been Blizzard's bitch for years and have every intention of getting my Starcraft 2 on regardless of the price. But this just sounds weak.

Besides, Asuka. You seem to love things even more if they're ripping dollar bills out of your wallet.
 
I guess it's an automatic defense mechanism. He becomes more jaded the more cash they get out of his pocket, so that he doesn't realize he's a corporate whore, succumb to depression and finally hang himself after realizing how much dignity he lost over the years.
 
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