Official Starcraft 2 Thread

[ThunderGod66]

I only want to play the single player game too cause most of the fun I had with SC1 came from single player and use map settings game "mods" in multiplayer.

However, I am NOT paying $50-$60 for a THIRD of the game.
So, I will probably pick it up in a few years when they do a battle chest release of the whole game.

Blizzard is incredibly greedy.

It's not 1/3 of the game. The single player of Starcraft 2 is just as long as all 3 campaigns of Starcraft 1 combined...so they both have the same length. Think of it more as the first part of a trilogy (staring with the number 2 ).

[Snakespy]

...aaand 4 hours later only 75% oh my GOD!

[senorgotti]

I think it makes more sense to just buy the first game and release 2 race specific expansions expanding the single player campaign and adding new Mp units.

Then again, fans are going to play pretty much whatever Blizzard asks.

I hope they don't add more mp units with each expansion. I'm only interested in the mp, the single player stuff looks boring. Going to pick up my copy tomorrow and I will be off for 4 days. Should be awesome

[xclite]

If 4 hours is 75%, then it's only 1/3 of a game.

[kent1146]

I hope they don't add more mp units with each expansion.

They won't. Because:

1) That would fragment the gaming community.
2) Giving player A more units than player B is impossibly hard to balance.

[kent1146]

wait... I haven't been keeping up with SCII. (as I'm more of a C&C fan even from the beginning)

anyway. they want $60 for EACH RACE CAMPAIGN?! so it's $60 x 3 = $120 for the entire game?!

If that's the case You have to got to be kidding me...

1) If you want to catch up with Starcraft storyline, look here:http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/07/26/st...three-minutes/

2) They never announced pricing for the other campaigns. You are assuming they are going to charge $60 for each campaign... and when you assume....

3) It's not the case. You're assuming.

[Kamakazie]

wait... I haven't been keeping up with SCII. (as I'm more of a C&C fan even from the beginning)

anyway. they want $60 for EACH RACE CAMPAIGN?! so it's $60 x 3 = $120 for the entire game?!

If that's the case You have to got to be kidding me...

Your math is awesome, and yeah, Blizzard confirmed it way back, this game is Terran campaign only.

[kent1146]

Math aside - The problem is that he's assuming that every other campaign will also call $60, based on the fact that the Terran campaign is $60.

[senorgotti]

There is a Protoss level in the campaign. I doubt it's a long one though. Tech tree for Terran in the campaign is different than multiplayer btw.

kent, the bw expansion for sc1 did change the multiplayer. Not sure if players with the bw expansion played the people without it though. I only played SC pre BW, so I have no idea.

[Kamakazie]

So I'm a consumer whore and bought it because of that epic Kerrigan vid. So far I'm still not enjoying it, but I'm going to complete the campaign, dammit!

[taggart6]

So I'm a consumer whore and bought it because of that epic Kerrigan vid. So far I'm still not enjoying it, but I'm going to complete the campaign, dammit!

Hahahaha....you fool!

[taggart6]

They won't. Because:

1) That would fragment the gaming community.
2) Giving player A more units than player B is impossibly hard to balance.

Thats what you assume and I don't agree.

It would stand to reason that Blizzard would offer unit upgrades (similar to an expansion set) to convince owners of the Terran campaign to purchase the the next campaign.

If the mp versions between different campaign versions are the same, then you give little reason for SC2 players to purchase more then one game. With Mp being viewed as one of the main focuses, I seriously doubt Blizzard will offer no unit expansions in subsequent releases.

Math aside - The problem is that he's assuming that every other campaign will also call $60, based on the fact that the Terran campaign is $60.

No your wrong. Blizzard announced a long time ago that each campaign would be $60. That may still change, but the pricing structure was announced.

[senorgotti]

So I'm a consumer whore and bought it because of that epic Kerrigan vid. So far I'm still not enjoying it, but I'm going to complete the campaign, dammit!

Ha you should have just watched the vids on youtube. Not sure if I'm going to bother with single player. It's all about the mp ladder.

[Gar]

Ugh, the Blizzard downloader is terribly slow for me tonight, I've been downloading for about 5 hours now and I'm only at 35% complete

[taggart6]

Ugh, the Blizzard downloader is terribly slow for me tonight, I've been downloading for about 5 hours now and I'm only at 35% complete

Just use a torrent site. Its the same file and works as long as you have a valid serial/logon account for battle net.

Seriously do people not know this?