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StarCraft 2 release pushed back until 2010

Discussion in 'TechSpot News and Comments' started by Justin, Aug 5, 2009.

  1. PanicX TechSpot Ambassador Posts: 829

    My, with such a well thought out and witty rebuttal, I see no alternative to your request.


    Really.
  2. Grimrocker Newcomer, in training Posts: 16

    Why am i not surprised? Or rather why am i so disinterested?
  3. Where did you come up with 2012 - 2013 tekkaraiden? With this game being in the works for around 5 years, four characters have been released and you wanna think that its going to be another 3 years? They started releasing data on the game in June of 2008... Why would they have all this information just sitting there for 5 whole years.

    If D3 will start with 5 characters as it normally does, it should be released in 2010/11 (I hope its the former). More time than that and D3 will lose all its hype. It just would not make any sense at all to open up the game site and leave it idling. Best than rumors can tell, it should be released around the same time as SC2.
  4. me thinks it was pushed back due to the release of cataclysm.
    wow makes a sh!tload more money than starcraft 1 and 2 ever will...monthly.
    So, obviously they want to finish the WoW expo to:

    A) keep people playing by adding something new
    B) lure new customers to the game.

    Unfortunately, this means SCII is on the back burner.
  5. hellokitty[hk] I'm a TechSpot Evangelist Posts: 4,017   +33

    Lol.
    If you've been to korea, you would notice that SOO MANY of them also spend massive amounts of time playing RPG style time wasters...
    On top of that, American Counter-Strike players would lol at Koreans playing Sudden Strike!
    But Korean proscene Starcraft is still my favorite though :D.
  6. I would just like to say that blizzard is not affiliated with the government. Its games are worldwide. I understand you saw this as an opporrtunity to show everyone how much you know about world economics... but unfortunately your comments on "US bankruptcy" hold no value, considering Blizzard isn't the US.
     
  7. The US is not a person or company, it can't go bankrupt,
    it can always create more debt and one can collect on the debts.

    Even the Federal Reserve, the private for-profit corporation who prints our money is powerless.
    One new law could take everything they own.

    The US can just decide to reorganize and not honor any old debt and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Other countries will just go along and do whatever we tell them.

    When you have the most powerful army and economy in the world you set the rules and terms, and thats why everyone resents us, pure jealousy, and they don't do anything about it because everything we do is for the best, and they know it.

    China has no choice but to play ball and buy our dollars and debt.
    They can barely manage their country and need us more than we need them.

    Lets face it, the US by far is the most successful country in the history of mankind.
    Even the poorest among us have cable tv, and have problems not getting fat.
    Never in the history of the world has obesity been a problem for poor people.

    Its not perfect, but its better than anything else mankind has come up with.

    As far as health care goes,
    if you are sick, go into any hospital, they have to treat you, its the law.


    None of that has anything to do with Blizzard delaying the game.
    The reasons they give are plausible and probably correct.
    Blizzard is one of the few companies that makes decent games anymore and actually have some sense of quality control.
  8. I came here about SC2.
    Not propaganda ;_;
  9. Tehoste TechSpot Member Posts: 59

    I'd probably kill myself if SC2 canceled. Well, maybe not kill myself but I'd be really upset. I still play Starcraft with all my friends, we've been waiting wayyyy too long for this game
  10. But why is it coming out so late other then wow... i mean how long has it taken them??? 5 or 6 years???
  11. Ju1iet Newcomer, in training

    Back to work CWAL team!
  12. wrong. World of Warcraft isnt all about the money. Alot of more casual players are eager for the storyline of World of Warcraft. Starcraft 2 is a competition based RTS that isnt noob friendly. they have these games for the different basis of players. it's not like they take all the money that they get from wow and gross completely off of it. blizzard / activision is owned by a company in europe and they're dispersed a specified amount based off what they are allotted. All of you tards that feel that they make uber cash... NO. game designers , artists, programmers, the hundreds of people on their team ALL need money per hour to make a game. and of hte allotted money, its not that much. which is why people left their team in the first place to make games they wanted to have the money they were being given to make something they like. which is the reason why wow's quality has gone down.

    Starcraft is a whole different game completely. blizzards games have always been top quality and never flawed. now the reason they probably pushed it back was because of this cash issue. wait it out, be patient and stfu :]
  13. nice comment! : )
  14. You got to be kidding, i ve been waiting for god knows how many years for d3. we should have been waiting for d5 ! Graphics already looks bad, because they are not able to finish the game. They work at wow all the time, that s why they can t finish d3.
  15. Its a lot better from Blizzard's point of view to have people complain about delays now than about game quality when it finally comes out. Are any of you not going to buy the game because its coming out late? Didn't think so.

    And what's up with this "they may cancel SC2" shenanigans? No worries, chaps, that aint happening.
  16. I would much rather the game be delayed, an be good, than the game come out now and suck. But we gotta give it to Blizzard, they always come out with top class games.
  17. at this point is it even going to come out before 2020. its been like 15 ****ing years
  18. If as you say, they are different teams, why would you think that D3 release is subordinated to SC2?
  19. Alexexex TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 124

    Starcraft Graphics lost their classical touch in the second comeback...
    I probably would have a real problem recognizing the individual units in the game, sigh...
  20. i doubt they would postpone the release of their video game due to an "economic depression". MW2 was released in 2009 and became the highest grossing video game evaaaaaaaaaaaa