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Starcraft 2 to be three games, internet to explode
Surgoshan:
You can play any of the three campaigns... within those campaigns, you have to play them in order. That's my recollection. Just in case people are confusing different ideas under the umbrella of nomenclature.
That is to say, maybe we're having a vocab crossfire.
ackblom12:
I definitely played the campaigns out of order cause I always hated playing as the Terrans.
Statik:
Did anyone besides the OP actually READ THE ARTICLE?
--- Quote from: THE ARTICLE (ie: interviewee) ---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." That brought up the question as to how multiplayer would work if some players only buy the first game while others only buy the second or third games. He said that they haven't made any determinations yet as to how that would work.
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--- Quote from: ALSO IN THE ARTICLE ---The original StarCraft, according to Pardo, had 32 missions; 12 for the Terrans, and 10 each for the Zerg and the Protoss. According to Blizzard, each of these StarCraft II games will consist of more than 30 missions.
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I have to kind of side with the pro-blizzard people. Even if you don't like the games they make, they don't put shitty content, and while you could concievably make an argument that they charge a bit too much, I would say their quality level is high enough that they can get away with it.
--- Quote from: Chesire Cat on 11 Oct 2008, 23:30 ---
--- Quote from: Storm Rider on 11 Oct 2008, 21:30 ---it begs the question of what the fuck they've been doing with all that time unless they split these games up and spread them apart to get people to pay for them individually.
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Maybe the designers got a little carried away and realised that the cost benefit assessment would have actually meant they had to remove content in all three campaigns to keep everything within budget and along their projections? So knowing their customers love the product so much that splitting it into three stand-alone games would benefit the community more than a, cheaper in cost and value, single release game.
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Storm Rider... just a thought, but, why not read the article/interview before typing out things like that. The interviewee specifically stated what their time is spent doing and what they've done so far.
What Chesire said. (Even though he didn't read the article either)
Boro_Bandito:
Yeah, I admit I was wondering if people had read the article either, because earlier when I posted that it implied that there would be new content such as new untis possibly and someone said that there absolutely wouldn't be
--- Quote ---"More than likely, the successive products will add multiplayer content; we haven't decided right now what that is."
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It's a possibility, damnit. The Terran game will include the Terran campaign and the full 3 race multiplayer online content, and the successive games will have the other campaigns and more than likely have new content. Which probably as well as the free maps that they've made that they released online and the maps and mods made by the community will likely have new map packs, units, or tilesets (or all of the above) like they released for Brood War. if they charge full price, they aren't gonna just tell you to bend over and take it, they'll make you want to.
imagist42:
I guess I am basing that off other articles I have read that claimed pretty flatly each game would ship with the same complete, unchanging multiplayer? But then it seems every article on this subject is claiming entirely separate things ("expansions" vs. "standalones/not expansions," etc.). It does make me wonder (as the article claims they "haven't figured out yet") how it would work to play online with each version adding new stuff to the mutiplayer package. Like, would it be an original Starcraft vs. Brood War split, where you can't play with people who don't have your exact version? Or would they add the new stuff in to all owners via a patch with each new release (as WoW adds some expansion-related content to the game even for players who don't buy the expansions)?
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