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StarCraft II Trisected

[Oct 10, 2008, 9:02 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The big news today out of BlizzCon is that StarCraft II is being divided into Terrans: Wings of Liberty, Zerg: Heart of the Swarm, and Protoss: Legacy of the Void, three separate standalone campaigns that will be sold separately, each highlighting one of the game's races, with the decision to subdivide the real-time strategy sequel said to be the alternative to either delaying or scaling back the release. Shacknews quotes Blizzard's Rob Pardo saying the second and third games "will be like expansion packs, but we really want them to feel like standalone products." Word is the Zerg campaign will emphasize RPG elements, the Protoss campaign will focus on diplomacy, and the Terran campaign will also feature a Protoss mini-campaign. Shacknews also offers a couple of cut-scenes, one fully rendered, and the other using the game engine.

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58. Re: No subject Oct 11, 2008, 03:06 elefunk
 
So let me get this straight, for the people who are still complaining about this.

-Blizzard is promising a completely overhauled method of storytelling
-They want their campaign to play much differently - branching trees and more
-They're including RPG elements and all sorts of other things so you keep your progression
-Development budgets have skyrocketed since the first Starcraft
-They want each of the three campaigns to be as long as all three of Starcraft's put together


So now, taking all that into consideration - skyrocketing budgets and all - these so-called "fans" expect Starcraft II's campaign to not only be ridiculously ambitious and completely overhauled, but three times as long as well?

And the second they announce this decision, these so-called "fans" immediately shun Blizzard as "changing"? That they're suddenly influenced by Activision even though it was a MERGER, not an ACQUISITION?

These so-called "fans" want an incredibly promising game from a developer that has never disappointed in a decade, but refuse to spend even 20 seconds understanding how this decision was even reached?


You know what? Screw those so-called "fans". They don't deserve shit. They expect a phenomenal developer to give them more than three times the content for the same price and immediately scream gloom and doom when they find out they're instead being charged a reasonable price for it.

  
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