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Starcraft 2 to be three games, internet to explode
est:
Has that FAQ been updated recently or what? The articles/interviews seem to indicate that they initially started out trying to fit everything into one game, then decided to split things into separate race-based campaigns later. Also, as I said above, Rob Pardo said straight out that they would be expansions, but that they wanted to make them feel like full games. I take this to mean they will be standalone, much the same way that the DoW guys have been doing for their recent expansion packs.
KvP:
If all the playable races are included via multiplayer in each xpac, I'd hope that at least we'd be able to play them all in skirmish games when we don't have other people around.
satsugaikaze:
--- Quote from: imagist42 on 15 Oct 2008, 21:21 ---Yeah, I was really hoping they would try to keep multiplayer together, but then I was hoping they were serious about each game being standalone instead of requiring everyone to buy at least the "core" Terran game. The question is still, how will it work with both the Zerg and Protoss expansions in place? I mean, will you only be able to play with people who have your exact combination of expansions? Would you have to sign on with either the Zerg or Protoss expansion in order to play? Or might they follow the Roller Coaster Tycoon (1) model and have the second expansion include first expansion content (at least in terms of online multiplayer)?
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It'll probably work out as such that the multiplayer lobbies and ladders will be only concerned with a specific expansion pack you use, much like Diablo or Starcraft, and that the multiplayer content only applies to one expansion pack. At least, that's what I think.
But if the last expansion pack will contain the previous content of the expansion packs and is released in the order that Blizzard wants you to play the content, then we really don't have a choice as to which order we play the campaigns =(
ArcAirbender:
--- Quote from: est on 15 Oct 2008, 21:42 ---Has that FAQ been updated recently or what?
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It has remained unchanged since I first registered in this forum, hence my wishing that people with the expanded content could battle people without the expanded content.
--- Quote from: est on 15 Oct 2008, 21:42 ---Rob Pardo said straight out that they would be expansions, but that they wanted to make them feel like full games. I take this to mean they will be standalone, much the same way that the DoW guys have been doing for their recent expansion packs.
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I think pardo was referring to the long single player experience for each expansion....26-30 missions each.
Taking into account bliz game history, its most likely the 3 games will be appart with their own ladder, mods, perhaps versions. Just like Brood War and Frozen Throne.
I still be wishin' for bliz to "unite the clans"... as william wallace said, and make a humongus 2g+ patch that can make us all fight along, despite level of purchase.
est:
That makes absolutely no sense. The date of the article in the original post is the 10th of Oct 08 (ie: only six days ago). In that article they say it'll be three standalone titles with all three races playable in multiplayer:
--- Quote from: The article ---Pardo explained that the multiplayer remains relatively unchanged; each StarCraft II game will have a fully functioning multiplayer suite with all three races playable. "[In] the shipping product, all three races will be fully featured and balanced in gameplay and also in content," he said. We asked whether that meant the multiplayer suite in each game would be exactly the same, and he said, "More than likely, the successive products will add multiplayer content; we haven't decided right now what that is."
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Going on past expansion packs they've really only added a small amount of extra units. I really doubt there will be a huge path required to "unite the clans" or whatever. It'd be more likely that someone with the Terran pack will be able to play someone with the Protoss pack, but that each will have certain unique units available only to them.
Also, I think it's pretty important to note that Pardo's also said that there will be about a year in between each release. Terran, then #2 a year later, then #3 the year after that. They aren't all going to hit at the same time and force people to choose which one/ones they want.
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