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StarCraft II Delayed Until 2010
Blizzard has just announced that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty won't be released this year. From their announcement: "Over the past couple of weeks, it has become clear that it will take longer than expected to prepare the new Battle.net for the launch of the game. The upgraded Battle.net is an integral part of the StarCraft II experience and will be an essential part of all of our games moving forward. This extra development time will be critical to help us realize our vision for the service. ... As we work to make Battle.net the premier online gaming destination, we'll also continue to polish and refine StarCraft II, and we look forward to delivering a real-time strategy gaming experience worthy of the series' legacy in the first half of 2010."
I'm just sayin'.
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
Perhaps if they had tasked more drones with mining minerals in the first place, this whole fiasco could have been avoided.
But seriously, who didn't see this one coming?
South Korea just exploded with rage. This just might push them over the edge and they will finally take out North Korea.
This would be devastating news if it was still the 1990s...
That's true, a release date of 2010 would be over 10 years away!
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One of the best Starcraft LAN-play memories I have:
Myself and a small group of friends started doing LAN parties back before they became popular. I can remember spending half the time setting up the network with Windows 95 PCs, making sure everyone had the right TCP stack on their computers, and double checking coaxial terminators for the token ring network we were setting up. All this just to network Doom.
Fast forward a few years and we were playing Starcraft into the wee hours of the night/morning. One time we were doing a "big game hunters" round which went particularly long. I fell asleep and woke to see half of my base destroyed with enemy units just sitting there. I looked up and noticed that the player who attacked me had fallen asleep before finishing the attack. I retaliated but fell asleep before I was able to finish off all of his bases.
Put LAN-play back in Blizzard.
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This puts me at least one year closer to my PhD. Hopefully blizzard will delay another couple years so I can finish.
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Blizzard makes REAL Mac games:
1. They don't use Windows API emulators like Electronic Arts.
2. They release their game simultaneously for Windows and Mac (in fact both versions are on the discs), at least until Diablo II LOD if I recall correctly.
I wouldn't call them a Mac gaming company, but it seems to be a stretch to say that the Mac is not a priority for them.
Psst... join the rest of us in the 21st century and turn Javascript on.
Or are you saying you're willing to run gigabytes of Blizzard's C++ DirectX code on your computer but not a few kB of their Javascript?
Little known fact: In the late 1980s, Will Wright secretly wrote a program called SimGameDesignGuru which accurately simulated a visionary computer games designer.
It's too bad he forgot to turn off disasters while Spore was under development. Zing!
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it'll be rushed
Really? Is that one of your primary concerns about the game? That it won't have spent enough time under development?
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