[PC] (StarCraft 2) Apparently Blizzard Still Makes Games!

1UP has a Starcraft 2 page up with a release date of 11/20/07.

http://www.1up.com/do/gameOverview?cId=3159435

Still no official word from Blizzard though, so I wonder what prompted this.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Haha, MMORTS.

Everyone just runs around with their little armies doing quests.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

It's pretty cool to watch that video and hear how the crowd reacts.

I wanna know what the Korean text is that makes everyone go nuts the first time.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Images from IGN.

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/850/850126/imgs_1.html




How ya doing, buddy?

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3159662

Game play footage posted on YouTube.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by JazzFlight

AHHHH, then this gives the inkling of a possibility that it could maybe possibly perhaps in the future SOMEHOW land on the Xbox 360 and I won't have to worry about upgrading my PC!

SCORE ONE FOR THE CONSOLE BOYS.

Originally Posted by starcraft2.com

Will there be a console version of StarCraft II?

StarCraft II is being developed for the PC. We have no current plans to bring the game to any console platform.

In their FAQ section.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I still have no idea why anyone would ever pre-order anything. Like Best Buy, Target, and Circuit City won't have copies. And you don't have to part with your own hard earned money for god knows how long. And it's easier to change your mind.

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Originally Posted by SouthJag

While that may be true, pre-ordering does save you the hassle of trying to track down a copy and it, in essence, allows you to put it on layaway. So why not have the benefit of knowing your copy's guaranteed?

Yeah, except they don't guarantee it (requiring users to buy more if they wanted their XBOX 360 despite original pre-order purchase rank). And you have no guarantee they will get the game first or will get enough games.

Which is even worse because then you are locked in, you have your money sitting at EB Games, so if you do see tons of copies on the shelves at Target, you not only have to buy it at Target, but you have to go to EB to get your money back.

Further, I've often seen in Sunday circulars where the bigger stores have sales. Several times I've gotten a new game from Circuit City or Best Buy for $10 off (if I remember correctly, Circuit City sold FF XII for $37.99 on first day while everyone else sold it for $49.99). Which means that if you want to take advantage of those specials, you have to go through the process I outlined above.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

$5 =

I can't think of a single game ever that people couldn't get on day 1 without pre-ordering. The only place I can ever remember it applying is to the 360 and, as we all know, people who pre-ordered that got fucked in the ass by Gamestop and EB.

It's an unnecessary risk. It's just another indicator that no wonder so many are in debt: no one knows jack shit about economics or finance.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Anyway, so derailed.

Originally Posted by Slayer X

Plus most people don't pre-order stuff out of fear of not getting it, it's out of excitement most of the time.

Well, that's kind of exactly my point. It's the mentality that gets people into debt. Granted, $5 is small potatoes, but it is the same impulse thinking that leads people to put $3,000 TVs on a credit card that they can't pay off.

It is absurd from a practical standpoint (customer gets no benefit) and leads to potentially harmful behavior from a social standpoint (like saying a casino doesn't foster gambling problems).

The people who say, "Well, I don't have anything to lose in pre-ordering" don't ask themselves, "If I had nothing to lose, that means the company has nothing to gain...so why would they do it?"

Originally Posted by SouthJag

I'm only gonna say this once, since I said it a million times in the past and it still pisses me off. Microsoft is the one who screwed your 360 pre-order Mikey, not EB or Gamestop. This is what we were told, in short:

Target, Best Buy, and Circuit City didn't fuck over their customers by offering pre-orders. That's the difference. When Target was told, "Hey, we only have 25% of your order ready", they didn't have people's money in hand.

And your little anecdote there still has nothing to do with the real problem: that after EB and GS found that out, they would only give the 360s to the people who would order the most other games and accessories. "Oh, sorry, you don't want to buy 5 games and 3 extra controllers on launch day? Then you aren't getting one. I don't care that you were the first person to pre-order."

There's nowhere I can't reach.