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On August 06 2009 07:21 Spawkuring wrote:Show nested quote +On August 06 2009 07:17 zx82 wrote:On August 06 2009 06:47 MasterFischer wrote:
Besides... all the hate towards the game development taking so long is not justified. The game ITSELF is finished.. beta state.. and has been for quite some time now.. it is only BNET 2.0 that is givign trouuuuble. So you think taking seven years to develop a game that's not a new IP is reasonable? The life cycle of most operating systems is even less than that... oh and "it's only BNET 2.0 that is giving trouble" misses the point....it has still taken 6 years for them to get to the point where they are working on B.NET 2.0......here's a genius idea: Come up with a new revolutionizing way of paying the game that will be INTEGRAL to it's success, call it battle.net 2.0 and then wait until the rest of the game is done before even starting work on it...GENIUS! I honestly don't consider six years to be a valid number for SC2's dev cycle. As stated by Blizzard, they had to halt SC2 development because WoW turned out to be so big. The actual game itself is more or less being made at the same cycle as any other Blizzard game.
Regardless whether they stopped for WoW or not is irrelevant...WoW took just over 4 years to develop, and that was a massive game and a totally new genre for Blizzard....this is a sequel to a known franchise in what is supposed to be Blizzard's bread and butter genre (RTS). Even if you take away that year of lost development you are still looking at a 6 year development time.
I have no doubt that the game will be successful, but Blizzard really needs to get its act together....a company known for long game delays is somehow getting WORSE not better.
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Dominican Republic106 Posts
On August 06 2009 07:10 sixghost wrote:
Blizzard can take all the time they want. BW is enough for me.
Curious, when did you start playing BW?
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haha I totally called it. Lightyears away. =3
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Can't say I'm surprised. I think deep down we all knew this was going to happen. Of course this changes their original statement of "one major title a year" slightly, which was a foolish thing to say anyway.
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goddamn horseshit, this shit always happens. and in the meantime, a shitload of WoW stuff will be released.
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Who would see that one coming? 
Hopefully they will get sc2 out in 2010
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Sweden33723 Posts
On August 06 2009 06:49 Nitro68 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 06 2009 06:38 FrozenArbiter wrote:On August 06 2009 05:32 Pufftrees wrote:It's not good news but ANYONE who expected it to release in 2009 was.. well. + Show Spoiler + Lol why? If they hadn't had this whole China problem (that's what makes the most sense to me anyway, in terms of explaining these delays) they probably would have started the beta around the end of june. I mean, EVERYTHING pointed to the beta being released around then (invites to press and players for one), then suddenly nothing happens. 2009 was a realistic goal if it wasn't for these unforseen problems IMO. I dont think China is the problem, afterall the beta will be in America first. They invited people, they announced a 2009 release, and then cancelled their Battle.net press event because bnet is "up in the air" and everything stopped. Bnet is the issue here.
I'm saying China is the reason Bnet 2.0 has been delayed. Chinese WoW servers have been down for like 2 months at this point, and I read they sent a tech team down there... IE maybe it's consuming their resources.
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The next big thing to wonder is when in 2010.
February or August makes a big different :O
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On August 06 2009 07:31 zx82 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 06 2009 07:21 Spawkuring wrote:On August 06 2009 07:17 zx82 wrote:On August 06 2009 06:47 MasterFischer wrote:
Besides... all the hate towards the game development taking so long is not justified. The game ITSELF is finished.. beta state.. and has been for quite some time now.. it is only BNET 2.0 that is givign trouuuuble. So you think taking seven years to develop a game that's not a new IP is reasonable? The life cycle of most operating systems is even less than that... oh and "it's only BNET 2.0 that is giving trouble" misses the point....it has still taken 6 years for them to get to the point where they are working on B.NET 2.0......here's a genius idea: Come up with a new revolutionizing way of paying the game that will be INTEGRAL to it's success, call it battle.net 2.0 and then wait until the rest of the game is done before even starting work on it...GENIUS! I honestly don't consider six years to be a valid number for SC2's dev cycle. As stated by Blizzard, they had to halt SC2 development because WoW turned out to be so big. The actual game itself is more or less being made at the same cycle as any other Blizzard game. Regardless whether they stopped for WoW or not is irrelevant...WoW took just over 4 years to develop, and that was a massive game and a totally new genre for Blizzard....this is a sequel to a known franchise in what is supposed to be Blizzard's bread and butter genre (RTS). Even if you take away that year of lost development you are still looking at a 6 year development time. I have no doubt that the game will be successful, but Blizzard really needs to get its act together....a company known for long game delays is somehow getting WORSE not better.
How is it not relevant? Having to put your entire development on hold because an MMO grew to unexpected proportions is definitely relevant. NOBODY expected WoW to grow as big as it did, so in my eyes it's excusable that it's been taking this long.
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That looks like our current Bnet, not bnet 2.0
They say it's a service for their Warcraft real-time strategy.
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Blizzard announced SC2 way too early. This sucks. -_-
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Well that's not too surprising. The beta has been delayed time and time again, so the game will be too. But hey, you have to remember Stracraft 1's production as well. Years worth of patches occurred to get the balancing correct (150 spawning pools ftw.) This extra time means the game will come out as if the patches were added onto the actual product.
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Dominican Republic825 Posts
On August 06 2009 05:39 Kenny wrote:Just more time for us to enjoy the greatest game ever, Starcraft BroodWar D
i am with you in this
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man, vradovic's gonna have to be a lurker for a while ^^
On August 06 2009 08:28 LuisMl8 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 06 2009 05:39 Kenny wrote:Just more time for us to enjoy the greatest game ever, Starcraft BroodWar D i am with you in this
so am i
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On August 06 2009 07:42 theron[wdt] wrote:
goddamn horseshit, this shit always happens. and in the meantime, a shitload of WoW stuff will be released.
WoW is their money maker now... not that I really understand why anymore.
The entire game collapsed after Wrath came out, I no longer understand the draw it has to the masses.
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lol not a surprise at all.
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On August 06 2009 07:23 ssxsilver wrote:
I can't wait to play the Protoss campaign in 2018
By then, the Protoss will be blowing up our planets. 
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thats really sad , i remember the 1st time blizzard showed us sc2 with actual gameplay. I was like wow this looks ready, must be out very soon.
I think this was 2 years ago?
=(
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EPT
