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Blizzard Announces StarCraft 2
We'll be returning once again to the world of StarCraft, it appears, and not in the form of a Massively Multiplayer game. Blizzard has announced StarCraft 2 at their packed event in Seoul, South Korea. IGN is liveblogging the event, describing gameplay footage being played as well as full cinematics. From the description of ongoing events there are massive changes to the way the game plays, new units, a physics system within the game engine, and the capability to show over 100 units onscreen at a time. "Showing gameplay footage - Looks like protoss ships - floating over asteroid/ base structure - entering protoss ase - similar looking buildings - vespene gas still in the game - character pane shows up on right side - some protoss guy - shifts to terran bases floating on rockets over same type of territory - sill collecting crystals as resources - marines load out. Dustin is actually playing the game - nothing in the game is final." Additional coverage from Milky at 1up.
Was never taken with Starcraft, liked TA much better. Will be worth trying at least.
That's totally flamebait dudez!
I'm tired of MMOs, (especially their fees)
Right, because $15 a month is soooo damn expensive. Let's see, that's about 3 Big Macs at McDonalds per month. Quit feedin your piehole with junk food and you can easily afford that tiny amount, just like the 8.5 million people playing WoW.
If you don't realize, people are still on dialup and isdn lines, which can't handle MMOs
Jesus Christ, who the fuck are you? You're too god damn cheap to afford $15 a month for a game AND too god damn cheap to afford the extra $20 a month over dialup for a decent connection? Quit being a loser, get a fucking job, do some side work or whatever, get the money, lay it down, and join the modern era. Waiting for you to catch up is a shitty reason for Blizzard to hold back.
I have not the slightest idea what the fuck you just wrote.
Fine, then don't say it's some whiny excuse like "$15 is too much" or "I can't afford the $20 extra for broadband". There's nothing wrong with wanting a life.
$15 IS too much for the experience they offer, on top of charging for the game (and spare me the bullshit platitudes about buying the game to pay for development, and paying the fee to pay for the servers. I don't give a fuck.) I have plenty of CRPGs and JRPGs that I can grind in almost infinitely, for free and without some 12-year-old enfant terrible questioning my ancestry.
Some people can afford it, but decide that it's not a reasonable value. The lifeless fanboys who think a set of +5 bananas on their shoulder makes them more worthwhile as a human being can't understand that.