Blizzard has their way with their fanbase

[Sinistrous]

www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55267

Blizzard today announced that StarCraft II will be released as a trilogy of separate games, each concentrating on one of the universe's three factions.

The first game in the trilogy will consist of the Terran campaign, and is set to be titled "Terrans: Wings of Liberty."

The second Zerg-focused title will be "Zerg: Heart of the Swarm," with the third game being "Protoss: Legacy of the Void."

"[The second and third games] will be like expansion packs, but we really want them to feel like standalone products," said Blizzard's Rob Pardo.

In other words, you get to buy the game at full-price three times if you want the whole thing.

Pardo noted that the decision was necessary to maintain the quality of the product, the alternatives either being a long delay of the game, or a scaling back of the campaigns.

Translated as: "those fags that made Dawn of War got away with it, so we figured 'why the hell not?'" and "we're just making so much fucking money with WoW, we had to pull this shit off to seem economically viable to the big wigs!". Expecting similar shenanigans with Diablo 3!

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So, guess who won't be buying Starcraft 2 when it comes out?

[Dja Majista]

Yep, this is pretty ridiculous. The campaign mode has never been Starcraft's trademark. Why are they emphasizing it so much now?

I admit that this sucks, but it's not gonna keep me from buying.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

I never saw this thread. But yea, that is dumb. I don't mind them trying to make the story better, there's nothing wrong with that at all. This is only the second game. But why do that (besides the obvious reasons).

Gives me time to hold on that computer upgrade.

[Dja Majista]

whoa check this out. This came up the second time I saw your response on the thread.


Wierd. It showed your post as Sinistrious.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

I *am* Sinistrous, you didn't know that?

It's only a matter of time before it's Wal Mart.