Blizzard Countdown [Sep 19, 2002, 12:34 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
The countdown is underway on the Blizzard Entertainment
Website (thanks Hanzo) where they started the clock ticking yesterday for
their promised big announcement (story). Meanwhile, the mailbag
here at the Blue Tower has been filling up with entries from folks excited to
see the same countdown on www.starcraft2.com
(thanks StarmiT) which would seem to be an indicator of what today's announcement
from the Tokyo Game Show will center around. Just to clarify, while the
announcement may well indeed be about plans for a StarCraft sequel to satisfy
those eager for such a project, the countdown actually appears on other domains
Blizzard owns currently pointed at the same server, so you will also see this
dramatic countdown (at 7-some odd hours as of this writing) on warcraft.com,
as well, so there's no reason to be certain the announcement relates to
StarCraft.
"Why would they waste thier time.........."
Because it's virtually assured to be a huge financial success.
Asides from that, Blizzard can't really go in to many other directions. If they were to make a RTS it would be direct competition for the recently released WCIII. Same applies to MMOG.
It basically came down to the only other really successful genres that would be relevent to the SC universe. FPS or TPS (Third Person Shooter, and yes, I generally do distinguish them).
I won't be getting a console to play this, but I'm still going to follow it as it does look pretty interesting.
Hoping they'll be the first to pull of successfully both the "one-man army" and "small part of much larger force" aspects.
Because it's virtually assured to be a huge financial success.
Asides from that, Blizzard can't really go in to many other directions. If they were to make a RTS it would be direct competition for the recently released WCIII. Same applies to MMOG.
It basically came down to the only other really successful genres that would be relevent to the SC universe. FPS or TPS (Third Person Shooter, and yes, I generally do distinguish them).
I won't be getting a console to play this, but I'm still going to follow it as it does look pretty interesting.
Hoping they'll be the first to pull of successfully both the "one-man army" and "small part of much larger force" aspects.
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I love the power glove. It's so bad.
I love the power glove. It's so bad.
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