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Blizzard Answers StarCraft 2 Questions - Batch 43

Totalling over 230 answered questions, the official Starcraft 2 Q&A series has now reached number 43. This edition kicks off with the community manager Karune telling us what the Development team is currently working on: "the development team is working extremely hard on the single player campaign".

After the introduction he goes on by answering 5 community questions concerning Anti-Gravity & the Protoss Colossus, Critter attack animations, the Zerg Infestor, Art changes and a load of information on Zerg v.s. Zerg matches.

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SCFreelancer6149d ago

Its a really good sign that they are now really focussing on the games' singleplayer campaign. This very fact suggests that they are now working towards a release.

I don't think the game will be released this year, but it should be early next year for sure ;) (I don't have any official source for this claim, its my best guess).

kalos6149d ago

I hope so too. I expect the game's development to be nearing the end of its cycle, and within 12 months having our hands on it. Once again nothing offical to back that on, it just appears that way from my observation.

Leord6149d ago

Well, ofc there ARE no official sources, but I think you are right. Both from what we know of the development, and after playing it. Putting 2+2 together isn't that hard.

Basically they have said they would do SP last, and when we last talked to them they were 30% through. If they are still that active, they should be 50% or so now, and that means they just gonna polish stuff more and then release. A <6 month release date seems likely.

player_729856149d ago

I definetly love these Q&A Batches - definetly prove to be a good & useful read. The single player info is definetly awesome from this article, is definetly getting me excited for SC2!

Leord6149d ago

I wonder how much extra publicity the game has received with these QA batches... Perhaps this is the way of the future of development?

SCFreelancer6149d ago

I think these batches are a great way of keeping us up to date.

As for the single player campaign: I think Starcraft I and its expansion had one of the best single player campaigns I have ever played. I must have gone through it more then 10 times now and I still like it!

Its probably no surprise if I tell you that SP is going to be the first thing I am going to play? :)

Maticus6149d ago

How long has this game been in production? Years it seems.

SCFreelancer6149d ago

Well, it has only been roughly a year since it was officially announced, but the cycle itself is ongoing ever since the last game was released (conceptually). Actual development started when they got their act together after the WoW storm.

TheIneffableBob6149d ago

Development started after they finished The Frozen Throne. So 2003/2004.

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'Big Match' Over Starcraft IP. NC, Nexon, Netmarble, and Krafton Clash.

Leading domestic game companies have entered into an unprecedented competition to win orders for Starcraft, Blizzard's representative IP (intellectual property).

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RaidenBlack81d ago

Was aware the iconic Starcaft IP was jumping to South Korea ....

jznrpg81d ago

Weird MS is letting go of a good IP. I don’t mind it but hopefully the best dev wins and I’m not sure who that is outbid those.

Sonyslave381d ago (Edited 81d ago )

What they are bidding for are exclusive rights to develop the IP. Microsoft/blizzard is essentially licensing it out to the highest bidder, not selling the IP.

B5R81d ago

I wonder if we'll see Starcraft Ghost come out of this. And if we do, I wonder if it'll be a free-to-play gacha game.

goken81d ago (Edited 81d ago )

Given the potential developers, looks inevitable there will be free to play gacha versions. But given south korea’s love for starcraft there would be one that is inline with starcraft 1&2.
Might want to expect some sort of backdoor cheat that only south koreans know of lol 🤣

Profchaos80d ago

Nah that's long since dead and gone it's only good is a leaked Dev build

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'StarCraft: Remastered', 'StarCraft II' Now Available on PC Game Pass

This week, Blizzard Entertainment dropped both 'StarCraft: Remastered' and 'StarCraft II Campaign Collection' into PC Game Pass.

meganick223d ago

Hopefully these get released on Switch and Playstation, along with Age of Empires. There’s a severe lack of good RTS games on both those platforms.

waytoobad222d ago

if only they didn't raise the price 500% last year.

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Coming to Game Pass: Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, StarCraft & StarCraft II, and More

Happy spooky season to those who celebrate! We have a collection of scary games for you to enjoy with Game Pass, while hiding under the blankets (or maybe that’s just how I play). And if you want to do something slightly less scary, we have a whole list of games for you to start pre-installing including more day one additions like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and more! Let’s get to the games.

• South Park: The Fractured but Whole (Cloud, Console, and PC) – October 16
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Cloud, Console, and PC) – October 25
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (Cloud) – October 25
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• Call of Duty: Warzone (Cloud) – October 25
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• Ashen (Cloud, Console, and PC) – October 29
• Dead Island 2 (PC) – October 31
• StarCraft: Remastered (PC) – November 5
• StarCraft II: Campaign Collection (PC) – November 5

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crazyCoconuts247d ago

Let the COD on GamePass experiment begin!
I would think their quarterly revenue will take a hit compared to a year ago, but will maybe make up for it throughout the year as the monthly GP subs keep coming in

pwnmaster3000247d ago

Was up with call of duty man?
I downloaded cod on gamepass and for some reason I cannot access the game.

darthv72247d ago

just curious what version? There are some that you can pre-load, but they wont work until their release date later this month.

pwnmaster3000247d ago

I have to redownload it again for the 3rd time to check.
I ended up just deleting it to make room for other games after the second time.

It was on Xbox game pass, I didn’t know there was other versions. I just downloaded everything, but sadly I couldn’t even access the game. Maybe 3rd time the charm. I’ll download it again.

SPEAKxTHExTRUTH247d ago

It’s not out yet man unless you’re talking about MW3.

pwnmaster3000247d ago

I’m talking about mw3. For some reason I could not get it to work.

just_looken247d ago

On xbox there is the last gen/current gen versions pc though you could also get a xbox version.

When that new forza first came out for one day they had the xbox version on the pc store i was like ? what it was odd.

On xbox you can easily download the one version of a game instead of the series version so you run into issues on your series console.

pwnmaster3000246d ago

Because a game won’t run after I download it??
Man your kids must hate your @ss if that’s how you think.

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dveio247d ago

It's going to be very interesting to follow up on how the new entry of CoD will perform at the box office, player numbers and distribution of Xbox, PC and PS versions this year.

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DivineHand125247d ago

I got excited thinking they ported StarCraft to consoles but it's just the PC version. Also, I thought Starcraft 2 was already free to play.

TheColbertinator247d ago

I'm certain it is going to be the Campaign Collection version.

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