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

Posted 08/18/2009 at 8:54pm | 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.