StarCraft II
Interview on Shacknews talks with Dustin Browder about Blizzard's upcoming
RTS sequel. The lengthy conversation delves into detail about gameplay and the
current state of the long-in-development project. They also discuss the new
Battle.net, which Dustin says is "up in the air" right now:
I can't tell
you a whole lot because in reality, anything I say might be a lie. We're still
working on it, and it's kind of up in the air. I kind of wish it wasn't, but it
kind of is. What you saw today is not where we're going. It's a version that we
have that has a lot of problems that we don't like. It was never meant to be the
final version, but we're getting further and further away from that being close
to the final version. We're trying to do more and more stuff.
We're hoping to have support for casual leagues, support for professional
leagues, hardcore leagues. Hoping to do a lot more with friends, more with
replay sharing. A lot of it you can probably guess, but what makes ship, what
doesn't, what comes in later patches--what we decide to do with it exactly does
depend. And I've got a design meeting today, and it's about what's going on with
Battle.net.