Personally, I'm rooting for an SC2 RTS obviously... but I'm not as optimistic anymore.

After talking to an acquaintance who works for Blizzard, he confirmed that any employee found to leak information regarding the May 19th announcement would be violating NDA's they've all signed and would be fired. But all he WOULD say is, "I LOVE SC, and I LOVE MMORPGs

"
Yes, with the wink. So unless he is trying to mislead me, which i doubt, then implications are that it is an SC MMORPG game.

If you think about it, it makes sense from a financial standpoint (if u believe Blizzard cares about $$): WoW being their biggest cash cow of all time, why not use the same lucrative mmorpg format formula for the even more popular SC universe?

I'm not an expert on the Havok Physics Engine, but as food for thought i'm wondering if this will have any impact on the type of game they are announcing. Seems that it was primarily used for Halo2, HalfLife2, and Age of Empires3. So unless the only reason why they licensed it was to port for the Mac, then i'm guessing SC:Ghost or SC2 RTS are still distinct possibilities. So i'm still maintaining some hope for SC2 RTS.
http://www.havok.com/content/view/371/53/

sidenote:
IMO .999... INFINITELY approaches the value of 1, but never actually equals 1. and i stand by that.

Qyx

United States24 Posts

May 15 2007 04:11 GMT

#423

Did anyone else hear the rumor of an Infested Terran race? would be wierd since the campaigns refer to a Protoss/Zerg hybrid race, which IMO would be cooler.

Zymurgy

United States370 Posts

May 15 2007 04:11 GMT

#424

but how would that make sense? they just got a WoW expansion out and it would diminish the sales from it, whereas if it was a rts or other type of game they could hopefully get more people who buy both than if they were both mmorpg. Who knows though

Jyvblamo

Canada13788 Posts

May 15 2007 04:15 GMT

#425

On May 15 2007 13:11 Qyx wrote:
Did anyone else hear the rumor of an Infested Terran race? would be wierd since the campaigns refer to a Protoss/Zerg hybrid race, which IMO would be cooler.

Rumors rumors rumors who gives a flying fuck?

.kaz

1963 Posts

May 15 2007 04:17 GMT

#426

On May 15 2007 13:11 Qyx wrote:
Did anyone else hear the rumor of an Infested Terran race? would be wierd since the campaigns refer to a Protoss/Zerg hybrid race, which IMO would be cooler.

Key word.

Newnoise

Sweden44 Posts

May 15 2007 04:20 GMT

#427

On May 15 2007 13:08 Qyx wrote:
Personally, I'm rooting for an SC2 RTS obviously... but I'm not as optimistic anymore.

After talking to an acquaintance who works for Blizzard, he confirmed that any employee found to leak information regarding the May 19th announcement would be violating NDA's they've all signed and would be fired. But all he WOULD say is, "I LOVE SC, and I LOVE MMORPGs

A Starcraft-MMO dont make sence. First of all a well made MMO has a length of maybe 10 years. It doesnt make sence to do another MMO. My second point is if a Starcraft-MMO were made they would compete against each other, WoW vs WoS. And for the third, it takes alot to do a MMO, ALOT of resources. Its risky buisness. They wont release a Starcraft-MMO on saturday, trust me.

Telemako

Spain1637 Posts

May 15 2007 04:26 GMT

#428

With 1.15 release I think it will be a new franchise =/

Jyvblamo

Canada13788 Posts

May 15 2007 04:30 GMT

#429

I think the most important think to consider here is that they are announcing this at the WWI in KOREA.

Diablo is negligible in Korea.
Warcraft is small.
Starcraft is huge.

It will seem like a snub in the Koreans' faces if they don't announce a Starcraft related game.

polarwolf

924 Posts

May 15 2007 04:31 GMT

#430

i want a Xel'Naga race.

ofclean

United States100 Posts

May 15 2007 04:59 GMT

#431

edit: :x

sith

United States2474 Posts

May 15 2007 05:20 GMT

#432

On May 15 2007 13:30 Jyvblamo wrote:
I think the most important think to consider here is that they are announcing this at the WWI in KOREA.

Diablo is negligible in Korea.
Warcraft is small.
Starcraft is huge.

It will seem like a snub in the Koreans' faces if they don't announce a Starcraft related game.

It seems like that too me as well...obvious in fact. It took about 15 seconds to realize "Hmmm they are announcing a game in korea....starcraft is huge in korea....what could it be? Oh I know, those Koreans are HUGE diablo players"

Newbistic

China2912 Posts

May 15 2007 05:24 GMT

#433

Poll: What is the new game going to be?
(Vote): Starcraft 2
(Vote): Starcraft 2!!!
(Vote): STARCRAFT TOO!!!!111
(Vote): Some other stupid game
(Vote): Starcraft 2

^^----THERE IS ONLY FOUR RIGHT ANSWERS HERE GUYZ

dudel

Germany188 Posts

May 15 2007 05:32 GMT

#434

1.15 is out. It's to distract us, right?

ReTr0[p.S]

Argentina1590 Posts

May 15 2007 05:40 GMT

#435

To get everyone back into the game, I was actually going to install it and test it out, maybe they want a big crowd to come back to announce something, but who knows..

Foo Magoo

102 Posts

May 15 2007 06:24 GMT

#436

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2340457&cp=&sr=1&f=Taxonomy/TRUS/2255974&origkw=starcraft ghost&kw=starcraft ghost&parentPage=search

I hope this is some kind of mistake...

useLess

United States4781 Posts

May 15 2007 06:36 GMT

#437

1.15 could mean that theyre either setting the system up for SC2, or softening the blow of not getting SC2.

pirate cod

810 Posts

May 15 2007 06:54 GMT

#438

1.15 could mean they're releasing ghost and as to cool the sc fans as much as possible since no sc2 theyre pretending to actually give us what we want.

sanenrespectful

21 Posts

May 15 2007 07:00 GMT

#439

blizzard = god

starcraft 2 will rock! like starcraft original did!
i cant wait!