StarcraftWire.net continues to explore the technical aspects of StarCraft II. Having revealed confirmed system specs, talking of DirectX and Havok among other topics before, the tech guru Kalos reveals Blizzard replies and analysis of StarCraft II in Windows Seven.
Even though fans have been clamoring for a StarCraft 3 for years now, it seems like Blizzard really has no reason to spend time making one.
They sort of ran the story as far as it could go.
Also, it seems like blizzard is more busy with mediocrity at this point in time.
The problem with Blizzard is they have franchises that don't need sequels. People are happy playing the games that they previously made. What they need is new games, none of this business of trying to transport the old audience into a new version of an old game which only ends up nickle and dime'ing users.
Jason Hall, currently an indie developer and former Blizzard employee, has been sharing some really interesting stories from his long career in the industry for a while now. Some of them are truly insightful, while others may seem depressing.
I’m a little shocked that StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty sold only around 6 million copies. The original StarCraft did over 11 million. Maybe Blizzard was too leisurely in releasing StarCraft 2? Starcraft 2 came out 12 years after it’s predecessor.
and people wonder why we are having mtx in everything. i blame the people who actual buy them.
It's interesting he used Brazil as an example of the importance of regional pricing. Nowadays many companies on Steam are setting their prices in Brazil as high as, if not more than, their price in USA. I simply refused to buy a few games when I noticed that's the case.
Illogical Games has just announced the official release of Star Discord, the one-man indie dev's charming StarCraft lookalike on mobile.
I hope Windows 7 is going to be what they say: as Vista should've been. Nice article Kalos.
I did what I could with this article, sadly I'm pressed for time with other things right now. Hopefully this helps a great deal of people, its why I think up and write these things.
It's quite interesting to get an insight in exactly how things like OS compatibility works for older games.
I just say that because I like to play lots of old games, including SC1 and HoMM3 =)
woot. It's finally out.
I think SC2 will be fine on Win7 if Blizzard want this game last as long as SC1.
Eh, should work okay then, even if they're not saying it in so many words.