"The release of StarCraft 2 will split the online and competitive community in two. On the one hand, you will have those who can't wait to migrate to Blizzard's latest masterpiece. On the other hand, you will have those who see no reason to change games, and they are perfectly content with the current game. How do I know this will happen?
Because it happened to the Counter-Strike community when Source was released."
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.
Im pretty sure the PC community has been waiting for SC2 for a while. People will be excited and it will sell like hotcakes. Hell, Korea televises this as a Sport in their country. Lol.
Even if no one here in the US wants it, I do. Day one for me. Day one. :)
It will be a day one purchase for me too, and I don't really enjoy competitive gaming, so that side of SC doens't interest me that much.
However, I saw the split in CS (i am on CS 1.6 fence) and that might happen to SC.