StarCraft II Cost $100 Million To Develop

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday July 18, 2010 @04:23AM from the did-they-have-to-send-a-space-shuttle-to-pick-up-kerrigan dept.

UgLyPuNk writes with news of a report that Blizzard has spent over $100 million developing StarCraft II. Initial development on the game began in 2003, and it's due to be released on July 27th. Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick "described StarCraft as one of the company’s seven 'pillars of opportunity' (where each pillar has the potential to deliver operating profit between $500 million and $1 billion over its life span)." The finalized system requirements for the game have been released, and players planning to buy the digitally distributed version can download it now, though it won't be playable until the 27th.

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Re:Will not be surprising by Meski · 2010-07-18 16:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Abandoned since when? They've recently introduced it to WOW, and added realid (hate it or not, it's a new feature). And yes, there are fake WOW servers, but who cares about them?