StarCraft 2 (almost) announced.

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:13 pm

It's a fan made pic. Other than that I don't know much else.

The Project Revolution thing will never come out. Learn to accept it as a bunch of pretty pictures and nothing more. Although I personally hate the look of their terrain. The videos really emphasis that.

Specialist · Post by **Specialist** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:41 pm

Are you kidding? If I remember correctly, their host requires that you have atleast 70% finished before you can sign up with them. I reckon it'll be out sooner than you think.

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Tue May 01, 2007 10:03 am

hm lots of rumours right now. A lot of people seem to think SC2 will be an mmo, since they're hiring developers.

I think it's shooting themselves in the foot, to start up a new MMO already.
Who are they going to take away customers from? Themselves?

The non-existant sci-fi mmo market?

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Tue May 01, 2007 10:46 am

Maybe they'll cut into Anarchy Online's non-existant profits.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Tue May 01, 2007 3:00 pm

Smiley wrote:hm lots of rumours right now. A lot of people seem to think SC2 will be an mmo, since they're hiring developers.

I think it's shooting themselves in the foot, to start up a new MMO already.
Who are they going to take away customers from? Themselves?

The non-existant sci-fi mmo market?

That seems perfectly logical to me. They already have the competence to make a successful MMO brand and would certainly like to diversify their MMO portfolio. Developing both MMOs and single-player games consumes a lot of resources and man power so ditching either division sounds like a wise thing to do. I'm guessing we wont see any more of them less profitable singleplayer RTS games by Blizzard. Another option would be if EA or some other big game corp buys their RTS division.

Dreadnought · Post by **Dreadnought** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:58 pm

Yeah. Let Bethesda buy it!

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed May 02, 2007 12:02 am

Oblivion with protoss?

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:57 am

Smiley wrote:The non-existant sci-fi mmo market?

star wars galaxies

Atrokkus · Post by **Atrokkus** » Wed May 02, 2007 8:19 am

Smiley wrote:A lot of people seem to think SC2 will be an mmo, since they're hiring developers.

People who think this way are clearly mentally-impaired. It seems so hard for them to understand that Blizzard is not a small company like Troika or even Bethesda, and they dont need to focus all their means of production on ONE project. That's first.
Second, before that, they were hiring experienced/professional *RTS*players for positions in the testing and balancing departments. I mean, how can anyone question the genre of SC2 after that?

Infinity Dose · Post by **Infinity Dose** » Wed May 02, 2007 8:36 am

has there ever been an RTS game with a M rating?

:OFFTOPIC:

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Wed May 02, 2007 9:26 am

DoW mebbe?

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Wed May 02, 2007 9:52 am

It did. So did Mark of Chaos.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Wed May 02, 2007 12:54 pm

Didn't Vivendi make an announcement awhile back about how all future Blizzard games will be MMO?

Atrokkus · Post by **Atrokkus** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:02 pm

jetbaby wrote:Didn't Vivendi make an announcement awhile back about how all future Blizzard games will be MMO?

Read up the news, it was a fuckup on Vivendi's side. Blizzard/vivendi denied that later on, saying that it was a mixup on the presentation team's side.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Wed May 02, 2007 7:52 pm

Atrokkus wrote:
jetbaby wrote:Didn't Vivendi make an announcement awhile back about how all future Blizzard games will be MMO?
Read up the news, it was a fuckup on Vivendi's side. Blizzard/vivendi denied that later on, saying that it was a mixup on the presentation team's side.

That's what they want YOU to believe. They already have two distinct divisions focusing on the single player market and MMOs. Financially, it would make sense to focus on the more profitable branch and ditch the other. Knowing Blizzard/Vivendi they'll make the right financial decision.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:28 pm

I hope not

Did the guys behind SC leave Blizzard or just the ones behind WC and Diablo?

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:32 pm

SC2 better be a real game, not some shitty MMO travesty. If SC2 is going to be an MMO the times of real, good games are totally officially over.

Atrokkus · Post by **Atrokkus** » Thu May 03, 2007 5:11 am

Did the guys behind SC leave Blizzard or just the ones behind WC and Diablo?

Mostly the Blizzard North folks who are responsible for Diablo only.
HOwever, if you look at ArenaNet developer profiles you will stumble upon several names from the core department (like that one guy who conceptualized battle.net), but not a lot. Most of the strategy guys stayed in Blizzard, working on Warcraft3 and the rest.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Thu May 03, 2007 5:17 am

Infinity Dose wrote:has there ever been an RTS game with a M rating?

:OFFTOPIC:

im pretty certain starcraft did have an M rating? more recently im almost positive that company of heroes scored one

Atrokkus · Post by **Atrokkus** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:10 am

im pretty certain starcraft did have an M rating?

Its ESRB rating is Teen.
There's some naughty language but it's not swearing, and the violence is not really graphic and natural.