Blizzard's StarCraft II Delayed Big Time

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I'm not happy with the delay either. But you can't rush perfection. Don't believe me? Try and think of the last crap game Blizzard ever released.
 
12 million people paying from $5 to $20 a month (Asia compared to Europe) is making the company around $1,000,000,000 a year... I would think they could afford a more extensive team. =/

Looking forward to it regardless. =D
 
[citation][nom]Matt87_50[/nom]I'm a professional game developer, I've made a networking system and your right, it is hard to counter the lag of the internet, on the other hand, HOW OLD is battle net now? and the net is only getting BETTER, meaning LESS lag, so if it worked before, why not now??? and we are not all pissy about not being able to play the game illegally!! I am so sick of ppl thinking that we complain about DRM because we wanna play it illegally, quite the opposite! we complain about DRM because we wanna play it LEGALLY without hindrance after paying them money!!!LAN support is needed for legal play. every time you go to a proper LAN, the chances are its been organised at a church hall, or a community hall or some place where there is lots of space, and nothing to be broken or stolen. AND THESE PLACES DON'T HAVE NET!! sure you could get wireless net, but the ridiculous costs of downloads mean that even for gaming, the cost of the net is a factor, AND WE SHOULDN'T NEED THE NET! the problem is they a turning the Internet into an EVEN MORE necessary utility than electricity. I mean, you can use a computer on a UPS or a laptop on battery without the need for electricity, but u'd STILL need the net to play. the problem is, the Internet is not even nearly as mature utility as electricity. Imagine when everywhere there is a power point, there is a net connection, which costs a couple of cents per GB, THEN the internet will be as much a Utility as the other Utilities, and then programs relying on the net will be perfectly fine, but until then, its not fine for something to rely on the net unless it absolutely has to.[/citation]
We must play games without the net, Yet your freakin cellphone probably has more Download and upload speed streaming though your 100 dollar a month plan then your dsl line or cable ever gives you. At least if you are in the US. Face it if you want to get a house do you shop around for houses that you like enough to buy or do you build your own house, you didn't build the house so complaining about it is pointless. People that hold lan events so big they can't use an internet cafe or something along those lines and have to use a place without internet should have the brains to assemble a way of getting internet there.
 
[citation][nom]Matt87_50[/nom]LAN support is needed for legal play. every time you go to a proper LAN[/citation]

Yea here's where your argument takes a dump. There's more illegal LAN than proper LAN. Do you have any idea how many illegal copies go around in Asia?

Blizzard can sacrifice a few North American customers (and that's pure speculation on YOUR part) for a million people in the Asian market.

Bottom line is they will earn more money by getting rid of LAN.
 
I love Blizzard!
I love their games!
I've never played a bad Blizzard game... ever!
I complain about release dates and lost functionality, but then when the games come out... I praise them for the awesomeness that they brings to my life, and the world!

I was upset when I posted my last comment about the LAN situation, but I've had time to think and reconsider my stance on this whole debarcle...

Are people really that nieve that they don't give the game company the benefit of the doubt? Why don't we all get really... and I do mean REALLY... upset if the game actually turns out to be a piece of sh*t - I'll boycot them then. And if it isn't bad, then let's send Blizzard e-mails of praise instead of insult.

I truly do believe that StarCraft 2(and Diablo 3 for that matter) is going to rock our worlds. When it is released, i'm going to play it until my fingers bleed. And, if I can't use BattleNet to play the game LAN, then i'll get a hacked version of BattleNet that will allow for LAN play - remember WOW!

So, stop complaining. Put your efforts to better use, like telling Blizzard that you can't wait for the game! (Good praise makes people want to make the game better)

Enough said...
 
this is no surprise to me... They've been riding that virus of a game called "world of warcraft" since the longest... SC 1 is over 10 years old ffs, but I bet that game will still be better than SC 2 just because of how Blizzard as company has become. I will not buy a friggin game in 3 installments just to get the full storyline that is just retarded... unless its like 20$ a part. Seriously though Blizzard gtfo WoW and start making something worth while.
 
[citation][nom]hnutz2006[/nom]I love Blizzard!I love their games!I've never played a bad Blizzard game... ever!I complain about release dates and lost functionality, but then when the games come out... I praise them for the awesomeness that they brings to my life, and the world!I was upset when I posted my last comment about the LAN situation, but I've had time to think and reconsider my stance on this whole debarcle...Are people really that nieve that they don't give the game company the benefit of the doubt? Why don't we all get really... and I do mean REALLY... upset if the game actually turns out to be a piece of sh*t - I'll boycot them then. And if it isn't bad, then let's send Blizzard e-mails of praise instead of insult.I truly do believe that StarCraft 2(and Diablo 3 for that matter) is going to rock our worlds. When it is released, i'm going to play it until my fingers bleed. And, if I can't use BattleNet to play the game LAN, then i'll get a hacked version of BattleNet that will allow for LAN play - remember WOW!So, stop complaining. Put your efforts to better use, like telling Blizzard that you can't wait for the game! (Good praise makes people want to make the game better)Enough said...[/citation]
Sure their games are good - the game developers care for their games. But everything around them is a pile of garbage. I own every blizzard game I've heard of, but with support starting out really bad with telia driven battle.net, and surprisingly getting even worse over the years, I certainly won't buy any new games until the developers find a company to work for that cares as much as they do.

I am one of those that usually stick to his words, so I won't pay for it or diablo 3. I might steal it, but certainly not buy it like I did 10 years ago when I was young and naive
 
Hmmm... Wow is the most popular game in the online game in the world. If only part of them who now play wow, will start playing StarCraft II or Diablo3 online, they will be enonomically fine.
I allso would lke to see lan support, but I am sure that they will get more money by online games.
The only online game I play is LOTRO because I have a life time account. I play 3 times in a month so monthly subscribe would be total waste. This seems to leave those of us who don't play so often to not so good situation, but for Blizard this can be new money makiing machine even many old StarCraft players would not buy this game. There are so many new players that are used to pay monthly fee, so Blizard is not in position where they need to do anything but online games.
The delay was said to be related to Battle.net, not any game features, so it really seems to be online issue, not a "added" lan feature.
I am not sure, but we old school players are in the same situation as dinosaurs were. Adapt or die... "Pring me my meteoter"...

RIP This old fossil die to suffocatin when drying to eat his CAT 5 cable
 
You all want to know the real reason? Its b/c the original team has almost all left. The code is all messed up, b/c they have had so many different people working on it. They can't get it all to work right together. Plain and simple. Thats why they choppped it into 3 "sagas." Trying to get some more time to get the problems worked out, and to isolate some of the problems. Thats why they weren't putting in LAN support.. they needed every person on this project to fix it. Its also why DIII is stagnating.
 
I think it's because they don't want to compete with Modern Warfare 2. I remember reading that SCII might be delayed so that each game wouldn't take customers from one another. Which I thought was BS since they are completely different genres of games. But then I thought about it and it makes sense. I play both fps's and rts's and money is tight this year for a lot of people. Which means a lot of people might only buy one game over christmas instead of 2 or 3. Modern Warfare 2 is gonna be huge and so is SC2, but if released at the same time they might not be as huge right off the bat. Activision is trying not to split its consumer base.
 
[citation][nom]kaiser_25[/nom]BNet is so fail[/citation]

So lets hope BNet 2.0 isn't. Clever, aren'tcha?

Also, its Warcraft III all over again, I wasn't even really interested in that game but my buddy was and it was unbelievable. But this also means one other thing, although this shouldn't really be a surprise either. No Diablo III until at least Summer 2010 at best.
 
Those who posted about Diablo 3...isn't the release order...

-SC2
-WoW xpac Maelstrom (or something)
-Diablo 3
-2nd part of SC2
-WoW xpac, last
-3rd Part of SC2

...and then like... World of Starcraft..
 
So it sounds to me as if all future Blizzard games will be excluding LAN support and forcing the paying customer to go through their new and improved but not yet ready BattleNet over the internet.

If this is indeed the case, I will no longer be buying Blizzard games. This is a shame as they have made high quality games that are very fun to play. But if I cannot play StarCraft2 with my kids that are in the same room with me while my internet connection is down (which happens frequently in my area) then I have spent $150 to purchase three copies of a useless and unplayable game. Not to mention at least another $150 for three copies of Diablo3. So to say the least having at least $300 worth of games I cannot play multiplayer would stress me out and make me very angry. I avoid stress and anger whenever possible.

Hopefully Blizzard will wise up and not make this terrible mistake, as I do believe it would be their downfall.
 
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