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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."
This is Slashdot. We should be griping about the DRM, or the removal of LAN play which is obviously intended to keep us as indentured servants to the corporate behemoth, not talking about trivial things like when the game is going to be released.
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This is actually a good thing. Blizzard has the habit of not releasing unfinished games and even cancelling games if they start to look like they will be bad (SC:Ghost, WC:Adventures). I would much rather wait for a full and complete game without content cut out to meet a release date like EA-Bioware does (KOTOR2).
You know when this game comes out its going to be polished and will kick ass and kill several Koreans in teh process.
As much as I enjoyed StarCraft, the acronym "SC2" will always be reserved for Star Control II in my mind.
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"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're seriously comparing hosting that many live-action gaming servers with some match-making servers?
The game servers are hosted by the players, not Blizzard; only the match-making server will be hosted by Blizzard.