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Ya, the [R] stands for Rant.
I don't understand why everyone seems to be under the impression that SC2 is coming out soon? I mean, do you people forget who we are dealing with? It's Blizzard. The same company that took 40954309 years on Starcraft: Ghost only to end up throwing it in the trash. The same company who took about 1.5 years to release a simple bnet patch that would allow WGT to launch it's ladder (only to have some random bug fuck it all up). The same company who doesn't like to release products until they are 100% satisfied that it will live up to their really high standards...
Blizzard hasn't even announced a release date, and everybody's talking about it as if we're 3-4 months away from the best game ever. If they haven't even announced a release date, what makes anybody think it's going to be out even in the next year? Every time they do announce a release date, it always gets pushed back, pushed back some more, and pushed back a 3rd time just for good measure. Coupled with the fact that they are working on so many games right now: D3, WoW expansion, SC2, unannounced MMORPG... and we get a completely delusional group of people who think SC2 is just around the corner!
If SC2 is released any time before mid 2009, I'll be surprised as fuck... but even that seems like a generous estimate, I can't imagine it will be out before 2010.
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Korea (South)11598 Posts
2010 is too early i say 2012
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yeah I find it funny how people are saying stuff like "October 12th" or "December 5th" or "December 31st." Their justification is that places like Amazon and Gamestop.com have those release dates. It's like, come on...
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It don't mean shit til a beta is at least out =p
This is why I'm holding out on getting a new computer until this one blows up in my face
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I don't know, I was in the Frozen Throne beta and they seemed to be in awful hurry to get that out when it clearly wasn't balanced or even close to it (in my opinion). Granted, SC2 isn't even in beta yet, but it might be closer than you suspect.
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WotLK might be out before sc2, lol
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Isn't WotLK coming pretty soon? Or am I just misinformed or failing to see a joke?
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it will be out by 2020 if blizzard hasnt gone bankrupt yet.
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I hope SC2 doesn't get released for a longass time so I can enjoy BW some more
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They're definitely not starting external testing until after Blizzcon, and alpha+beta will last at least 6 months. Unless huge redesigns occur, mid-late next year is a reasonable guess for the release, anything before that is impossible, and 2010+ is realistic. 
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Personally I don't really care when it comes out and I don't even know if I'll play it when it does. BW is good enough for the moment IMO.
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The longer it takes, the better. I want a perfect game, or no SC2 at all.
and BW is still fucking awesome!
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Actually the fact they are working on so many games makes no difference since their teams to make these games are completely separate. Also if you are following progress of their games, the wow expansion should be out in January and some time after that Id imagine they would be done with the SC single player, meaning we might see a beta the start of early next summer.
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Who cares? Why are you so angry? Is this a big deal or something?
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You think it will be released in 2010 just because sc was delayed and ghost was cancelled? Listen to yourself. You are trying to compare today's Blizzard with Blizzard from 12 years ago. Blizzard is much more organized and punctual since they have become a powerful company as opposed to their 1990's start-up like phase.
Look at the game. It's at least 90% done (arguably 95%). All that's left is fixing some ugly graphics (such as the nomad, which is currently in progress), balance testing, creating the campaign (which may be close to complete), and some aesthetic elements such as tilesets. On top of that, I would bet that they have a private beta session going on as we speak. I bet a release date of early-mid 2009 will be announced at Blizzcon.
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nope. its coming december to mid 2009. ill bump this thread when i recieve my copy .
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On August 20 2008 04:05 Superiorwolf wrote:
Who cares? Why are you so angry? Is this a big deal or something?
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Someone I know that is in korea claims that beta is out there already which I doubt, and he says that the word on the street over there is december 13th...which only makes sense in that it would sell an incredible amount of copies due to holiday and what not.
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Christmas this year strikes me as completely unreasonable. My best guess is they'll announce a summer 2009 release, and get it out Christmas 2009.
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On August 20 2008 04:24 Jaskwith wrote:
Someone I know that is in korea claims that beta is out there already which I doubt, and he says that the word on the street over there is december 13th...which only makes sense in that it would sell an incredible amount of copies due to holiday and what not.
sounds reliable. I'm sold!
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On August 20 2008 04:24 Jaskwith wrote:
Someone I know that is in korea claims that beta is out there already which I doubt, and he says that the word on the street over there is december 13th...which only makes sense in that it would sell an incredible amount of copies due to holiday and what not.
Jask you moron, this holiday? for real?
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Even if it's released this year or next year, it won't be balanced until 2010.
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Calgary26003 Posts
On August 20 2008 04:08 AcrossFiveJulys wrote:
Look at the game. It's at least 90% done (arguably 95%). All that's left is fixing some ugly graphics (such as the nomad, which is currently in progress), balance testing, creating the campaign (which may be close to complete), and some aesthetic elements such as tilesets.
That sounds like more than 5% remaining.
On top of that, I would bet that they have a private beta session going on as we speak.
They don't.
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On August 20 2008 04:08 AcrossFiveJulys wrote:
You think it will be released in 2010 just because sc was delayed and ghost was cancelled? Listen to yourself. You are trying to compare today's Blizzard with Blizzard from 12 years ago. Blizzard is much more organized and punctual since they have become a powerful company as opposed to their 1990's start-up like phase.
Look at the game. It's at least 90% done (arguably 95%). All that's left is fixing some ugly graphics (such as the nomad, which is currently in progress), balance testing, creating the campaign (which may be close to complete), and some aesthetic elements such as tilesets. On top of that, I would bet that they have a private beta session going on as we speak. I bet a release date of early-mid 2009 will be announced at Blizzcon.
did you really read my post?
1) Starcraft: Ghost was as recent as 3-4 years ago
2) I'm talking about their PATCH to BW that would enable WGT to start the ladder, not the game itself (this was even last year).
I'm talking about Blizzard now, not Blizzard 12 years ago. AcrossFiveJulys, have you even played SC2 ever? It's not even close to be 90% done where the shit do you even get your statistics from, lol.
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since the macro/micro is fixed, game is ready to be released/.
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Anyone who thinks the game is coming out this year is clearly retarded. Blizzard has stated we will be getting more info on the single player campaigns in the new year. So that clearly puts the release date far into 2009 at the earliest.
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On August 20 2008 04:24 Jaskwith wrote:
Someone I know that is in korea claims that beta is out there already which I doubt, and he says that the word on the street over there is december 13th...which only makes sense in that it would sell an incredible amount of copies due to holiday and what not.
Actually it's out all over the place, not just Korea. I think the site that got the leaked copy of it is sc2beta.net or something. A bot in Brood War USA-13 told me so.
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I bet it'll be out when windows 7 reaches public beta.
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They need more time to perfect the new, additional 4th race. (I really hope there's a 4th race in sc2!!!! Sorry sc purists.)
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that definitely is not happening
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SC2 will come out with Duke Nuke 'em Forever.
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SC2 is going to end like ghost i predict.... hopefully not tho.
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lol no... O_O , but it won't be out for awhile.
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eh. games come out in the summer or during christmas season.
June 30 2009 was my call when the came was announced... I'm sticking by it (optimistically) for now.
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In all honesty I dont think it will be out be4 2011.
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thedeadhaji
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So I'm not the only one who wasn't going crazy at the SC2 and D3 announcements. What a relief!
I'm kinda getting excited about Aion, though - everyone who was frothing at the mouth at the initial announcement 3 years ago already forgot about it!
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I think summer 2009 is a good call. IMO, beta will be ready in feb/mar 2009 simply because the single is going to be mostly set by this december.
Feb/mar beta and july release is the same as WC3 RoC.
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Will it be out before London Olympics 2012?
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On August 20 2008 03:29 johnmaster wrote:
it will be out by 2020 if blizzard hasnt gone bankrupt yet.
Blizzard
bankrupt
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keep in mind...
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