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StarCraft II Beta To Begin This Month
mrxak writes "It's official; Activision Blizzard's much-anticipated sequel to 12-year-old StarCraft is going to enter closed beta 'this month,' according to company President Mike Morhaime during an investor conference call. This comes in the wake of the SC2 beta forums showing up briefly on Battle.net. If you've got a Battle.net account, it's probably not too late to opt-in for upcoming Blizzard beta tests."
I was beginning to think this was Starcraft Forever
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...the feeling of millions of South Koreans all creaming their jeans.
"If you've got a Battle.net account, it's probably not too late to opt-in for upcoming Blizzard beta tests." Well, ok... NOW it probably is...
You obviously didn't read the other Blizzard article. That's all you are about. Complaining about stuff. Slashdot is the Tea Party movement of the Internet. A bunch of old people complaining about how things used to be with complete disregard to reality.
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Found my own answer, if vgchartz.com is correct.
Starcraft 1 sales 12million. Diablo2 sales 5million.
Guess I'm just going to have to wait.
That, and they're still negotiating a new contract with the Devil.
Some people still get together and stress out their internet connection with multiple players.. Don't underestimate the fun of seeing people cry out in agony in real life.
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Although I'm dreading the "simplification" of the economy, I'm much more looking forward to Supreme Commander 2. The AI might have sucked in the first one, but the strategic zoom and infinite queuing of tasks has added more to the genre IMO, than anything the original starcraft ever did. Not to mention the scope.
Still, as an RTS junkie, I'll be interested in seeing what the new Starcraft will offer. Hopefully they don't continue the unfortunate RTS trend of focusing more on offense, to the exclusive of defense and the intricacies of building up an economy.
Oh who am I kidding? I hope they both suck. I need them to suck. RTSes are as bad as any drug out there. Maybe worse. At least you can do other things while high on drugs. You can't do anything else while wasting your time on an RTS. Except perhaps, drugs....hmmm.
You're thinking next-gen console games.
Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 are the current generation.
Don't be so sure. I can easily find plenty of articles online that clearly say that the PS2/Xbox/GameCube are 'next-gen consoles'. This naturally makes the PS3 and 360 'future-gen' or 'post-gen consoles'.
Why in the heck do you think you would be modded down? That same thing is said in every single game article and it is modded up.
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Require each player to buy a copy of the game. The first StarCraft had spawn installations, and a $50 game quickly becomes a $200 game when mom and dad have to buy a copy for each PC.
And heck, you have to buy extra computers for your friends to play on, so that's even more money! Screw you Blizzard!
Reminds me of this comic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/8/25/
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