EPTPre-orders "outpaced" HotS - Page 2
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
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weikor
Austria580 Posts
Even though im not too happy with blizzards approach at balancing multiplayer, the game is still worth its money for the campaign / funmaps / allied commander and the casual 1on1. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17252 Posts
On November 03 2015 21:26 Musicus wrote: Well I have a few friends that had no interest in HotS, who preordered LotV. In general the hype level for this game seems way higher than for HotS, with archon mode, coop missions and the way bigger multiplayer changes compared to HotS. good points here. ATVI in pulling every strategic lever in the book in order to drive up pre-orders. it wasn't just ATVI's marketing muscle ... it was very careful thinking and solid execution of a marketing plan. 1 example, is the timing of the release of the 3 prologue missions. shout out to ATVI and their marketing genius. On November 03 2015 14:49 Dracover wrote: I love this kind of stuff cause it tell you a lot of what they spend their money on. So for every $1 you pay to them 32 cents is profit 32 cents is to actually produce what they're selling you 14 cents is to pay for the development of their next game 22 cents is marketing sales and other "company stuff" or in other words 46 cents is for producing what your buying/what you might buy 54 cents is for stuff the customer doesn't value. EDIT: If only you can see this buy product. Blizzard transformed from Morhaime having to build his own desk into a company with 1000s of employees by spending 54% of their revenue on stuff their customer does not value. reductio ad absurdum | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On November 03 2015 14:39 ETisME wrote: I wonder how many bought the game for early release of artanis in heroes of the storm Haha, that's me! I play sc2 pretty casually and bought hots soon after release I think. I planned to do the same with lotv, but as I play a bit of heroes as well I figured I could just as well pre-order and get the hero.  | ||
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BlackCompany
Germany8388 Posts
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purakushi
United States3301 Posts
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
 I haven't played the missions and I had the beta before. I will play missions the day before release and beta was lagging for me atrociously so I couldn't play it  | ||
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Ctone23
United States1839 Posts
On November 03 2015 22:28 JimmyJRaynor wrote: good points here. ATVI in pulling every strategic lever in the book in order to drive up pre-orders. it wasn't just ATVI's marketing muscle ... it was very careful thinking and solid execution of a marketing plan. 1 example, is the timing of the release of the 3 prologue missions. shout out to ATVI and their marketing genius. +1, they have done really well in marketing. The SC2 trilogy reminds me more and more of a cliche movie trilogy. The first is always good, not necessarily great. The second is meh but passable, and the third brings out all the stops and cements it's "Legacy" | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17252 Posts
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Pentarp
227 Posts
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Ctone23
United States1839 Posts
On November 03 2015 23:48 JimmyJRaynor wrote: in the Superman, Spiderman and Batman Begins trilogies it was #2 that was the best. The Godfather Part II as well ^. | ||
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monx
Canada1400 Posts
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
I would add Terminator II and Aliens. Also Empire Strikes Back. Not sure if these now applies as trilogies because someone ruined it by making more movies  | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
On November 04 2015 00:53 Djzapz wrote: I'm not buying it, shame to see it's not going to matter. At this point I can't help to feel like this is yet another instance that tells devs and publishers that once you have a good franchise, you can afford to get complacent with little negative impact on your sales figures. If you tell me they got complacent with HotS, I would agree, but LotV is on a completely different level. They put tons of new features, real multiplayer changes and a lot of work into the game. | ||
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Brutaxilos
United States2633 Posts
On November 03 2015 23:48 JimmyJRaynor wrote: in the Superman, Spiderman and Batman Begins trilogies it was #2 that was the best. So by that logic... Starcraft II > Starcraft 1? | ||
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Eviscerador
Spain286 Posts
For all the hours of fun and joy they brought into my spare time, the hookers are all on me. Keep it coming. I did preorder the game for two main reasons. One, to get access to the preorder missions. (I already got the beta when they released the preorder purchase) and to get access to Artanis in HotS. Considering the hours of play I enjoyed with artanis the release week, and the fun I had with the three pre campaing missions, I consider the preorder bonuses totally satisfying. Now I'm waiting for a new campaign, more features and more balance updates. I'm glad StarCraft 2 doesn't have hour counter like in Steam games... because it will surely show over 2 or 3 thousands. Money well spent. On November 04 2015 01:09 Brutaxilos wrote: So by that logic... Starcraft II > Starcraft 1? Well, if you are not a super korean mastermind, yes, Starcraft 2 is much better than Starcraft 1 at all levels. The only bad thing about Starcraft 2 is that the plot is much more brighter and it lost the dark of the original one. But other than that, the campaign missions, the UI, the newbie help, the arcade, the MM, the graphics, the mechanics, everything is better. | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On November 04 2015 01:03 Musicus wrote: If you tell me they got complacent with HotS, I would agree, but LotV is on a completely different level. They put tons of new features, real multiplayer changes and a lot of work into the game. I think many of the new features were just conspicuously absent from the previous versions of the game. Adding them just made up for the previous shortcomings, including those of HotS. I'll say it's not hard to add features to a game which released years ago without chat, with an incredibly barebones custom games platform, without clans, without the ability to reconnect to games, without automated tournaments... without much, really. And the few innovative features that are coming up IMO don't make up for what I personally view as glaring design flaws that undermine the game. That being said, here is not the place to discuss those things in any more detail. It's just my personal opinion on this. With how heavily criticized the game is, and with how much videogaming journalists have been talking about preordering is bad, it makes me sad that there are a lot of LotV preorders. | ||
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Fliparoni
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B-royal
Belgium1330 Posts
On November 04 2015 01:12 Eviscerador wrote: Well, if you are not a super korean mastermind, yes, Starcraft 2 is much better than Starcraft 1 at all levels. The only bad thing about Starcraft 2 is that the plot is much more brighter and it lost the dark of the original one. But other than that, the campaign missions, the UI, the newbie help, the arcade, the MM, the graphics, the mechanics, everything is better. lmao. Everything relating to gameplay is MILES better in brood war ( I even started with Sc2 and switched to brood war after finding the former a massive disappointment). The arcade is horrible, can't even give a custom name to your game to give it some identity. MM = macro mechanics? Right.. everybody loves those. Brood war's graphics are even better than Sc2's. I'll elaborate: - Sc2's graphics are shit on any setting other than ultra. - Sc2's graphics are a cartoony mess, same with Sc2's models (infestors, vipers, protoss ball units or terran's flying shoes (liberator)). - Brood war's graphics are always great (there's no settings) - Brood war's models are vicious, creative, distinctive. Sc2's sounds and voices are also a HUGE letdown. | ||
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