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Crisis
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| djw746 wrote: | | Crisis wrote: | lol I was totally shocked when Blizzard announced 3 parts to the game... but I'm probably going to focus on multiplayer a lot more.  |
The real question is if each game sold means "completely new" multi player units (like the broodwar expansion). Oh the chaos if this is the case...  |
Nah, I doubt that they would make people buy the part 2 or 3 to get some new units. That would cause too much trouble on Battle.net, i.e. people with part 1 can't play against part 2 players. But it's Blizzard afterall and they can do anything lol |
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street4242
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veleb
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| Posted: Mon, 25 May 2009 02:26:17 Post Subject: |
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| Crisis wrote: |
lol I was totally shocked when Blizzard announced 3 parts to the game... but I'm probably going to focus on multiplayer a lot more. |
I did not like that announcement at all.
Just a way to squeeze more money from gamers. Probably inspired by success of Half-Life episodes.
And it allowes them to exploit several "high sales" weeks better.
Or maybe Koreans were geting tired of all that old starcraft pro-gaming and Blizzard needs to give them new toy faster than they could deliver the complete game as one piece |
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TomatoSlayer
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| Posted: Fri, 29 May 2009 16:57:31 Post Subject: |
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| veleb wrote: | | Crisis wrote: |
lol I was totally shocked when Blizzard announced 3 parts to the game... but I'm probably going to focus on multiplayer a lot more. |
I did not like that announcement at all.
Just a way to squeeze more money from gamers. Probably inspired by success of Half-Life episodes.
And it allowes them to exploit several "high sales" weeks better.
Or maybe Koreans were geting tired of all that old starcraft pro-gaming and Blizzard needs to give them new toy faster than they could deliver the complete game as one piece |
Yeah. I'm going to wait until I see how their pricing scheme will be. I'll be glad if it's about $20 a pop, maximum.
Funny thing about StarCraft though. When I first was introduced, I didn't like it at all. But, as time went on, and many occasions of caving in to peer pressure, I had grown to like the game. Now I can hardly wait for StarCraft II. |
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djw746
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| Posted: Fri, 29 May 2009 19:09:39 Post Subject: |
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| TomatoSlayer wrote: | Yeah. I'm going to wait until I see how their pricing scheme will be. I'll be glad if it's about $20 a pop, maximum.
Funny thing about StarCraft though. When I first was introduced, I didn't like it at all. But, as time went on, and many occasions of caving in to peer pressure, I had grown to like the game. Now I can hardly wait for StarCraft II. |
Quite frankly, $20 is an insane amount.  Broodwar was worth more at release, and that was for minimal content comparatively. No game with a fan base should/will ever release at that price point UNLESS they are going to charge us for monthly online play... 
I would much rather an $80 game with free online over a $20 with $5-15 monthly payments to play online.... (Price will probably be between $40-$60 per game just like most 10+ hour games...  )
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djw746
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| Posted: Sat, 30 May 2009 20:07:09 Post Subject: |
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| TomatoSlayer wrote: | | $60 total for which is essentially one game is expensive as it is. Like I said though, I'll wait and see. |
$60 for all 3 games (emphasis on 3 seperate games that are NOT one game essentially) being released over a period of AT LEAST 18 months just doesn't make much business sense. Sure if this is something they can just patch together and release all 3 within 6 months then $20 is appropriate, but I would almost be upset with Blizzard if they blundered so badly otherwise. The other option is an online monthly charge which would also be sad 
(I would expect $120-150 for the whole series over a 3 year period) ($105 would be optimistic)
They are promising 26-30+ missions (with extras) for each which is what we saw in the expansion Broodwar which richly deserved its $30 price tag (MSRP back then) at release back in 1998... 10+ years later a full game (not just an expansion) deserves a larger price tag (if for nothing else besides inflation) unless they are going to treat it like WoW...
I am sorry if this discourages anyone's hopes, but I would expect nothing less than either of the above options. (And am hoping for the one time charge and am hoping the same for DIII).
Regardless, I still want to play the beta multiplayer!!! 
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| radu4 wrote: | | Anyway to sign up on the blizzard site without logging into starcraft? I lost my original copy a long time ago. |
you can open a battle.net account without a game but you need to own a blizzard with key in order sign up for Beta (WoW trial doesn't count) 
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