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Blizzard: It Could Be “Several Years” Before All of StarCraft II is Completed

Posted 08/18/09 at 11:54:47 PM  by Nathan Grayson

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Ok, first of all, deep breaths. Lead producer Chris Sigaty wasn’t banging the gavel on the StarCraft II vanilla edition’s sentence to development hell. That’s still set to launch next year. Rather, he was talking about the full StarCraft II trilogy, which is a flavorful mix of Terran, Zerg, and Protoss. Still though, “several years.” That’s a lot of time. So, what’s up? Sigaty explained:

"We expect everything to be different when you play through the Zerg story and when you play through the Protoss, so you're not going to be mercenaries, and you're not going to be buying tech in that sense.”

"What we're doing with multiplayer, we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of, so all those things, we're just starting to move into discussions about now," he added. "I really don't expect us to get into any action on it until we actually ship the game."

Thus, Sigaty concluded, it’s not unrealistic to expect Blizzard’s no-stone-left-unturned tinkering process to last several years. “That's a fair statement,” he replied when presented with such a possibility.

At least, though, they’re not calling the whole multi-year package “episodic.” There's always that.

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TAGS: gaming, Software, news, blizzard, StarCraft II
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avatarSomeone still cares about

Submitted by D3lt4 on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 3:37pm

Someone still cares about star craft :O

They got on my shit list once they stripped lan.

Whats there not to hate about the game?

I am pretty sure anyone could have added some 2002 graphics to SC and called it a done deal....hell someone probably could have f*ed up the lan as well.

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avatar...

Submitted by mesiah on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 9:30pm

Less Q Q more pew pew

All you people flipping out and crying about no lan support... you're still going to play the game and you know it, but for now just keep on QQing and vowing never to buy another blizz product again.

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avatarI believe terminologywise,

Submitted by jcollins on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 8:42am

I believe terminologywise, "Episodic" is out and "DLC" is in.  

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avatarDelayed forever

Submitted by karnak on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 5:06am

This game has already missed so many so called release dates, I hate developers version of 'soon.'

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avatarthis is the first network

Submitted by ShuTDowN on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 3:15am

this is the first network game i played and one of my favorite as well.. I just hope that this release will be worth waiting for a long time..

 

[img]http://i44.tinypic.com/2irm8ma.jpg[/img]

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avatarOh yeah, that's very nice

Submitted by 1337Goose on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 9:35pm

Please Blizzard, by all means, take all the time you want stripping LAN capabilities from your games. We'll just sit here and twiddle our thumbs for several years while you get your act together. Come on, get real... Korea can only hold it's breath for so long.

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avatarI think there's a few of

Submitted by AntiHero on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 11:15am

I think there's a few of them left holding it. Not much longer now and Korea will be open for the taking.

I don't like Microsoft, I associate with it.

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