On May 17 2007 11:41 davidgurt wrote: Any of you idiots who still believe that it is something other than Starcraft 2 RTS gtfo.
Anyone know the precise time of the annoucement in Eastern Standard Time? Isn't it like sometime Friday night?
Yes. It is Saturday Korean time 14:00, which is 10pm PST (Friday night) or 1am EST. The actual opening starts approximately three hours earlier. After the announcement, they will have WC3 and SC after that, around approximately 1 or 1:30am PST. There's a Blizzard WWI schedule posted in one of the other threads.
Thanks. Looks like I'll be up late tomorrow night....
By definition any game played online can be considered Massively Multiplayer Online. its just like WMD's (weapons of mass destruction) a grenade can be considered a WMD just as much as a nuke can.
Starcraft:Broodwar is a MMORTS. And so will SC2 be.
MMORPG's like WOW or whatever are just shortened by people to be called MMO because its easier to say and no one calls other types of games MMORTS because technically you can play them single player and games like WOW you HAVE to play with other people online.
On May 17 2007 11:33 AmorVincitOmnia wrote: by definition MMOs are games that have hundreds of people playing on one server, at once
please explain to me how an "MMORTS" would work, and be played competitively
I never said it would be competitive, stop putting words in my mouth. There are reasons I'd rather have a standard RTS (competition is one of them), but like I said, Blizzard makes good games, and I'd rather have an MMORTS from Blizzard than no game at all.
On May 17 2007 12:47 CharlieMurphy wrote: By definition any game played online can be considered Massively Multiplayer Online. its just like WMD's (weapons of mass destruction) a grenade can be considered a WMD just as much as a nuke can.
Starcraft:Broodwar is a MMORTS. And so will SC2 be.
MMORPG's like WOW or whatever are just shortened by people to be called MMO because its easier to say and no one calls other types of games MMORTS because technically you can play them single player and games like WOW you HAVE to play with other people online.
On May 17 2007 12:47 CharlieMurphy wrote: By definition any game played online can be considered Massively Multiplayer Online. its just like WMD's (weapons of mass destruction) a grenade can be considered a WMD just as much as a nuke can.
Starcraft:Broodwar is a MMORTS. And so will SC2 be.
MMORPG's like WOW or whatever are just shortened by people to be called MMO because its easier to say and no one calls other types of games MMORTS because technically you can play them single player and games like WOW you HAVE to play with other people online.
generally wmds kill more than 20 people :O
No, they generally kill zero, as they're either just tested in the middle of the ocean/underground or just stockpiled. Also:
On May 17 2007 12:47 CharlieMurphy wrote: By definition any game played online can be considered Massively Multiplayer Online. its just like WMD's (weapons of mass destruction) a grenade can be considered a WMD just as much as a nuke can.
Starcraft:Broodwar is a MMORTS. And so will SC2 be.
MMORPG's like WOW or whatever are just shortened by people to be called MMO because its easier to say and no one calls other types of games MMORTS because technically you can play them single player and games like WOW you HAVE to play with other people online.
it could be, but it isn't. I don't know anyone that would call a grenade a WMD;o
What currently defines the MMO genre is that the game is ONLY online and is based in a world that continues to go on even when you aren't playing. Alot of people here are trying to take MMO literally as any game that has many people playing it online.
The term was coined specifically for the kind of game described above.
On May 17 2007 12:47 CharlieMurphy wrote: By definition any game played online can be considered Massively Multiplayer Online. its just like WMD's (weapons of mass destruction) a grenade can be considered a WMD just as much as a nuke can.
Starcraft:Broodwar is a MMORTS. And so will SC2 be.
MMORPG's like WOW or whatever are just shortened by people to be called MMO because its easier to say and no one calls other types of games MMORTS because technically you can play them single player and games like WOW you HAVE to play with other people online.
Sorry but your definitions of both a grenade being a WMD and sc being an MMORTS are just plain wrong.
a WMD is "Weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a term used to describe a massive weapon with the capacity to indiscriminately kill or incapacitate. The phrase broadly encompasses several areas of weapon synthesis, including nuclear, biological, chemical (NBC) and, increasingly, radiological weapons"
A grenade, or even a TANK is far from a weapon of mass destruction (by definition). That is why America cannot invade say Somalia on the grounds that they have millions of WMD's (grenades). This is off topic anyway.
Starcraft is not a MMORTS either, because that name has already been taken. There are actually games which are called MMORTS's.
Basically these are games set in a persistent world where your army and resources carry over from battles. It is different from a normal RTS (which is the only thing starcraft is) because the world is filled with many players and the world itself contributes to the game (unlike battle.net, for example, which doesn't give u extra probes when u start, depending on ur ranking). Most of the time u end up as a king of a nation and as u conquer more nations (other players) u can get more resources to bring a larger army into battle...etc. SC2 COULD be a MMORTS though I would be somewhat disappointed if it was...
On May 17 2007 17:23 Dionyseus wrote: If it's not StarCraft 2, I hope the Koreans don't let them escape alive.
trust me, the koreans won't.
Hahahah I can just see a diablo 3 or something announcment backfiring at them. They announce it to total silence and suddenly....mass hysteria.
edit: btw has anyone else seen the previews for that MMORTS Endwar? Basically it's 3 factions, US, Europe, and Asia and you have your own little battalion of troops that you customize and fight with in certain areas. As you fight more battles your troops grow older and become veterans. Plus...you can actually win. Like US can actually win the world, then the designers start the world over again. 360/ps3
On May 17 2007 12:47 CharlieMurphy wrote: By definition any game played online can be considered Massively Multiplayer Online. its just like WMD's (weapons of mass destruction) a grenade can be considered a WMD just as much as a nuke can.
Starcraft:Broodwar is a MMORTS. And so will SC2 be.
MMORPG's like WOW or whatever are just shortened by people to be called MMO because its easier to say and no one calls other types of games MMORTS because technically you can play them single player and games like WOW you HAVE to play with other people online.
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