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Starcraft 2 to be three games, internet to explode
Jackie Blue:
Not to mention, the "wallet-raping" aspect is not much of an argument if you look at, say, what EA has done with Rock Band. You have to literally spend about $1000 to have Rock Band 2 and all the songs that have been released for 1 and 2.
I mean, buying an album for Rock Band costs more than buying the actual album. What the fuck.
Chesire Cat:
It comes with a method to actually play the songs as opposed to actually listen to them. Rockband has great value for the buck and add in DLC to extend the value. EVERYONES getting paid for every song they put out, Rockband has found a way to make it economically viable and still give the consumer the added ability to get more tracks if they want them.
Storm Rider:
--- Quote from: Jackie Blue on 11 Oct 2008, 12:24 ---Not to mention, the "wallet-raping" aspect is not much of an argument if you look at, say, what EA has done with Rock Band. You have to literally spend about $1000 to have Rock Band 2 and all the songs that have been released for 1 and 2.
I mean, buying an album for Rock Band costs more than buying the actual album. What the fuck.
--- End quote ---
That's because plotting out the note charts for a song takes a lot more time and effort than you think. There's developer diaries out there somewhere for that shit, it's pretty in depth. Not to mention the licensing fees.
KvP:
The great majority of the cost of actually getting to play Rock Band goes to hardware, and games with extensive and pricey DLC are a different sort of animal entirely. You can easily play Rock Band without DLC, and if we factor in hardware costs, depending upon the system requirements of Starcraft there are people who could handily be spending more money on Starcraft than they would on Rock Band. I guarantee you that there will be far more people who will buy new hardware for Starcraft 2 than will have bought all the peripherals for Rock Band, and a decent video card plus all three games will definitely overtake the cost for a full Rock Band set, minus DLC.
And given the power and influence of Blizzard at present time, I doubt that including all campaigns in one package would be to the detriment of them individually. They could easily afford to work on all three at once and make good deadlines. Spend, what, 2 months profit from WoW on Starcraft 2 and voila. There's no "signature touch" that would be lost in a gargantuan effort like that.
Storm Rider:
Yeah, it's a pretty blatant cash grab. If you guys think that these are going to be priced like expansion packs, you're also fooling yourselves. They're going to charge the full 50 for all three games, because they can get away with it.
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