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Starcraft 2 to be released in August
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PuertoRican
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Umbrella
Taiwan936 Posts
But thats when school just starts ;_; | ||
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Liquid`Jinro
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Quanticfograw
United States2053 Posts
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AcrossFiveJulys
United States3612 Posts
I THINK this is good news... haha. | ||
ram
Lithuania602 Posts
On March 07 2008 13:15 PuertoRican wrote: ...and now the Vivendi CEO has... I really dislike him. And I'm actually afraid of Vivendi and how they get to interfere with Blizzard's precise game making ![]() | ||
Puosu
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BW WILL STAY ALIVE FOREVER~! | ||
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
On March 07 2008 14:13 Puosu wrote: the "players think change Is bad" thing by Blizzard really dropped my hopes in SC2 becoming as good as BW, now that they are releasing it so soon it sounds like they're just going to use the easiest way of just making it noob friendly wc3-shit-clone. BW WILL STAY ALIVE FOREVER~! God does everyone have to take that quote so far out of context -.- | ||
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Manifesto7
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lilsusie
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The follow-up game to the online "Starcraft" looks to debut this July or August at the earliest. Bruce Hack, a representative of Blizzard Entertainment's parent company Vivendi Games spent 6 days in Samsung Dong, Seoul at the Intercontinental Hotel and had a press conference. He announced, "We're in the last stages of developing SC2". Although Hack did not make any concrete statements about when the game will launch, it seems that once Activision and Vivendi Games close their merger in June, we are expecting SC2 to be released in July or August. SC's follow-up game, SC2 is gorgeous with realistic images and already there is a lot of interest amongst gamers. Starcraft is a game developed by Blizzard Entertainment, a subsidiary company of Vivendi Games and has sold over 5 million CDs in Korea since 1998. | ||
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GTR
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crazie-penguin
United States1253 Posts
On March 07 2008 14:41 FrozenArbiter wrote: God does everyone have to take that quote so far out of context -.- They're just overspoiled elitists who think they know everything about game design and competition and then take offense at every single letter Blizzard says. It gets really fucking annoying when you guys don't know what something means and then go on huge ass tangents about it. And you have to admit, they're right, people are afraid of change, everyone on this board was! As a matter of fact this goes for every single game out there. They're not insulting us... -.- On topic: This seems really really really early. Is there going to be some public beta like warcraft 3 or something? I would want them to take their time and make good decisions. Sure, they have been working on this for a few years already, but it seems even now everything is really rough and sketchy. August is just a blink of an eye away, I'm not too sure if this is good or not. | ||
SpiritAshura
United States1271 Posts
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Motiva
United States1774 Posts
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Jaskwith
United States197 Posts
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Spaceball
United States213 Posts
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Ancestral
United States3230 Posts
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Latham
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To be honest I didn't expect this to be out before next year. I will have untrusting feelings towards this game if it's get released before Christmas this year... it just seems so unpolished to be released so early. | ||
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Sigrun
United States1654 Posts
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useLess
United States4781 Posts
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mahnini
United States6862 Posts
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Ancestral
United States3230 Posts
On March 07 2008 16:10 mahnini wrote: shit. I'm going to have to speed up Operation Get-a-Competent-PC. Unless Vivendi ruins everything, which I hope they won't, Blizzard has a history of releasing games that don't need stellar hardware. Then again, I guess I don't know how old your stuff is. Case in point, I fear Vivendi. Edit: Ok, late, I wrote Activision instead of Vivendi. I fear Activision too, though. | ||
B1nary
Canada1267 Posts
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Morzas
United States387 Posts
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Australia3316 Posts
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omgbnetsux
United States3749 Posts
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alien3456
United States115 Posts
On March 07 2008 16:19 B1nary wrote: When I first heard of SC2, I was so damn excited. Now, I'm kind of scared of what will happen to BW after the release. I just got into progaming a few months ago... is it going to over that soon? Starcraft 2 will likely bring a totally new era to pro-gaming. It hasn't even begun if SC2 can truly live up to BW. | ||
Raithed
China7078 Posts
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talismania
United States2364 Posts
On March 07 2008 14:58 lilsusie wrote: Roughly Translated: The follow-up game to the online "Starcraft" looks to debut this July or August at the earliest. Bruce Hack, a representative of Blizzard Entertainment's parent company Vivendi Games spent 6 days in Samsung Dong, Seoul at the Intercontinental Hotel and had a press conference. He announced, "We're in the last stages of developing SC2". Although Hack did not make any concrete statements about when the game will launch, it seems that once Activision and Vivendi Games close their merger in June, we are expecting SC2 to be released in July or August. SC's follow-up game, SC2 is gorgeous with realistic images and already there is a lot of interest amongst gamers. Starcraft is a game developed by Blizzard Entertainment, a subsidiary company of Vivendi Games and has sold over 5 million CDs in Korea since 1998. so... sounds like whoever wrote the article just made it up. Hack probably said something to the effect of "it will be out probably after we finish merging" and whoever was writing the article took that to mean "soon" after instead of "blizzard-time" after, which is more likely. | ||
fight_or_flight
United States3988 Posts
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NarutO
Germany18839 Posts
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aeronexus
United States392 Posts
On March 07 2008 16:48 talismania wrote: so... sounds like whoever wrote the article just made it up. Hack probably said something to the effect of "it will be out probably after we finish merging" and whoever was writing the article took that to mean "soon" after instead of "blizzard-time" after, which is more likely. ah this is good to know... I was starting to get pretty ticked at the Vivendi CEO for the crap he's been spouting (first the in-game advertising thing and now this "release date"). August still seems like a weird time to release a game tho; wouldn't they shoot for Christmas? | ||
Danger_Duck
Burkina Faso571 Posts
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fight_or_flight
United States3988 Posts
On March 07 2008 16:57 aeronexus wrote: ah this is good to know... I was starting to get pretty ticked at the Vivendi CEO for the crap he's been spouting (first the in-game advertising thing and now this "release date"). August still seems like a weird time to release a game tho; wouldn't they shoot for Christmas? Well I suppose if they released the beta in august it would be enough time to get the game out by christmas? | ||
Heggie
United Kingdom167 Posts
On March 07 2008 15:14 crazie-penguin wrote: huge ass tangents I read this as if it was hyphonated and lol'd ![]() Very disapointed to realise you did not intend "ass-tangent" as a nown. | ||
Xeln4g4
Italy1209 Posts
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bahhh
United States888 Posts
i am casting my doubts. | ||
Jayson X
Switzerland2431 Posts
I don't care when they release it. I buy it when it's out. In 3 days we're going to see the zerg race. Then we will have a good overview of the 3 races and the state of the game. | ||
Meta
United States6225 Posts
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Num
South Africa62 Posts
On March 07 2008 14:12 ram wrote: I really dislike him. And I'm actually afraid of Vivendi and how they get to interfere with Blizzard's precise game making ![]() Well I'm sure Blizzard have been under Vivendi since before war3. So I don't see why you say such a thing. | ||
sushiman
Sweden2691 Posts
Hopefully we'll see the game soon. | ||
pyrogenetix
China5094 Posts
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anch
United States5457 Posts
No sign of public Beta testing, not even close of being done. | ||
JoxxOr
Sweden1502 Posts
It will be released next year... they suck at releasing games in right time ![]() ( They were 2 years late with Diablo 2 patch, 1 year late with WoW expension etc.) | ||
Tritanis
Poland344 Posts
you made my day dude :DD | ||
blagoonga123
United States2068 Posts
If so they delayed it for an entire school year. I remember thinking "halflife 2 in august?!" and then it came out when the school year ended -_- | ||
QuanticHawk
United States32051 Posts
Xsmas makes a lot more sense. Least we get to see zerg =] | ||
Jayson X
Switzerland2431 Posts
On March 07 2008 21:47 blagoonga123 wrote: Vivendi did halflife 2 right? If so they delayed it for an entire school year. I remember thinking "halflife 2 in august?!" and then it came out when the school year ended -_- No Vivendi is a multicorporate enterprise. Halflife belongs to valve. Starcraft / WoW to Blizzard. Vivendi games is the subsidiary company where all distributors and developers are under. Vivendi is in the music (universal), games, tv and telecomunication buissness. The game is distributed by activision/blizzard and the vivendi games ceo has nothing to say in this matter. | ||
boghat
United States2109 Posts
On March 07 2008 16:48 talismania wrote: so... sounds like whoever wrote the article just made it up. Hack probably said something to the effect of "it will be out probably after we finish merging" and whoever was writing the article took that to mean "soon" after instead of "blizzard-time" after, which is more likely. Did anyone else actually read this translation? This looks like stupid speculation on the part of whoever wrote this. The article doesn't even have a real quote from this Hack guy at all, and he doesn't really represent the game anyway. If this little article has any accuracy in it, which I doubt, I'm guessing maybe beta would be out in July or August. Or of course maybe the game actually will be out in August, but I wouldn't base that belief on this dumb news blurb. | ||
KameZerg
Sweden1762 Posts
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TheFoReveRwaR
United States10657 Posts
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Obama
Canada53 Posts
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Funchucks
Canada2113 Posts
From the way they're talking, they're taking units out and putting other units in, and changing unit abilities. Until they have the units figured out, there's no way they can build the campaign. | ||
maybenexttime
Poland5542 Posts
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[X]Ken_D
United States4650 Posts
On March 07 2008 16:10 mahnini wrote: shit. I'm going to have to speed up Operation Get-a-Competent-PC. | ||
Jayson X
Switzerland2431 Posts
You don't put togheter a playable version and then just trow it out on the market. That's maybe how low budget companys do it but not how the big rollers do their work. Cmon gimme a fucking break. Since when do the masses know what's acctualy good for their game? Just look at how relic did it with dawn of war in the very early stage. It was a patchmess. They jumped from imbalance to imbalance because of the "overwhelming feedback" by the community. For every good tought out idea there comes hundreds of player who don't even care how their changes might affect the game. They just care about their races, their own shortcomings and that's it. Just look at the wow forums in it's early stage. I sure as hell don't wan't that drama. Hell two years ago people cried about the imbalance in starcraft and that protoss is fucked against zerg. Do you even know how many games are out there that are "just another game". There is too much at stake to just trow out a game like starcraft2 and i'm glad that people like obama are not in charge. - "One does not simply walk into Mordor". | ||
QuanticHawk
United States32051 Posts
On March 07 2008 23:41 Jayson X wrote: There is too much at stake to just trow out a game like starcraft2 and i'm glad that people like obama are not in charge. - "One does not simply walk into Mordor". Lol, what the fuck? | ||
Blacklizard
United States1194 Posts
But OMG, I can't wait to see Zerg. I heard the 10th and the 11th... what are the exact details on the time/date, anyone? | ||
Drowsy
United States4876 Posts
Ah yes, and when the news isn't in English, it can never be trusted. | ||
Reach)
Sweden7 Posts
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teamsolid
Canada3668 Posts
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ViRii
United States826 Posts
IMO, Zerg units at BWWI and release at the end of the year/Q1 of 2009. | ||
LeGeNdZs[FcG]
Canada163 Posts
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GeneralStan
United States4789 Posts
The goal is to renew interest in starcraft and give non-current players a chance to play through the campaigns and have a couple games on B.net before SC2 comes out. What do you think? | ||
BlackStar
Netherlands3029 Posts
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GeneralStan
United States4789 Posts
Now what do you think? | ||
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Meh
Sweden458 Posts
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Live2Win
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United States6657 Posts
It's not a release date, it's an estimation of when it would be finalized. Which means they will push it back again and again for about a year. Haven't you guys have had enough experiance with blizzard to realize there's no way they're going to release a game that soon? They push back dates that were set in, and this ones not even a set date, it's a rough estimation. | ||
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United States6657 Posts
On March 08 2008 01:06 ViRii wrote: I highly doubt we'll see Zerg units on the 10th, thats Monday... We haven't heard any sort of formal announcement or promotion of this "event" have we? IMO, Zerg units at BWWI and release at the end of the year/Q1 of 2009. Actually, at this point I'm confident it's going to happen. Progaming teams are dispatching representatives to attend the event and play the game... people like BoxeR, Ra, NaDa are all going to test the game. They wouldn't do this (especially the Air Force) if there was no valid confirmation of such an event. | ||
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United States428 Posts
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Amnesty
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