StarCraft II Mac Client Beta Available

An anonymous reader writes "Blizzard has released the Mac client of the StarCraft II multiplayer beta. If you already have an invite for the PC beta, the Mac client is available under your Battle.net account." A recent patch also added a map editor to the StarCraft II beta, which has already led to some interesting projects.

Comments

Re:Yay!

[Councilor Hart]

It's because of google.
Google keeps everything in beta for perpetuity, even though most of their services doesn't deserve that label. Google uses beta as an excuse to their users, not as an indicator of service status. The whining you replied to is the result.

Re:Still not buying it.

[ifrag]

Here is the difference between what Ubisoft and Blizzard are doing.

Ubisoft is putting this stupid "connected all the time" stuff in Single-Player Games. There's no Multi I know of in AC2. So it's somewhere that server connections are completely inappropriate. It's just a complete waste to include it.

Starcraft II is meant to be Multi-Player, that is what the primary focus has always been, its what the Beta is testing (exclusively, no campaign testing in the Beta). Sure there is going to be a campaign, and you might even play through it more than once, but the many hours most people are going to burn on this is going to be Multi.

So I for one will be buying the game, because just about the only thing I care about at all IS Multi-Player and I don't have people local to play on a LAN either. The game could come with absolutely no single player features at all and I would still be buying it. If the game did not come with Multi-Player I would need to seriously reconsider if it was worth buying. The "must be connected to battle.net" thing is redundant to me, I'm going to be there anyway.