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Is Blizzard just cashing in with Starcraft II?

Starcraft II is just around the corner, waiting to be released to anxious gamers, waiting for this sequel since the first game. With the announcement that SCII will be split up into three games, is Blizzard just trying to cash in, or is this move a legitimate one.

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jazzking20015457d ago

what do you mean by "cashing in" ?
if you mean make a TON OF MONEY
then yes
but i do not think that they just make a crappy sequel to sell it
anyone can tell from the released cutscenes and gameplay that a TON of work has gone into making SC2

badz1495456d ago (Edited 5456d ago )

THAT doesn't make it right for them to separate the game into 3 retail games now does it? what's SC without all 3 clans available, right? so, in order to have the full experience of SCII like how it should be, I will need to buy 3 games instead of just 1! that's not just cashing in! it's trying to rip-off fans! I despise them for doing this and I think Kotick hand them the idea of this!

moe845456d ago

Sure it does. If there is enough content on each installment. Then by all means break SC2 into 3 games. There aren't many RTS games of this caliber that have any where near 30 missions.

Twilightx75456d ago

All 3 "clans" are completely available for multiplayer, and seeing as how Starcraft 1 shipped with full mp and 30 missions, and this has full mp and 26-30 missions (anyone have the confirmed final number?), you're getting what would be considered a "full game" by content standards.

Additionally, the two expansions that add the other campaign missions will be priced as expansions and not full games, so really, if you expect to pay $50-60 for what could amount to 90 missions plus mp, I think YOU'D be the greedy one here.

Darkstorn5456d ago

Blizzard has the quality reputation to prevent them from ever being seen as a truly money-grubbing corporation unless they really screw up.

I do, however, lament the lack of LAN play.

GrilledCheeseBook5456d ago

has the same amount of missions as the first with full mp
plus didn't they announce that before the merger and i would believe the other games to function as expansions

Kerrby5456d ago

Is Blizzard just cashing in with Starcraft II?

Yeah, they're just cashing in even though they just spend $100million on the game.

Stupid article.

kevnb5456d ago (Edited 5456d ago )

go buy all your rehashed sequels year after year. Of course they arent just cashing in, what is the point of this article? Is every sequel guaranteed to sell just cashing in?

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Perjoss5456d ago

when people heard it was being made into a trilogy they somehow thought this would mean 3 smaller games at a full price each. If I know Blizzard you will get more than your moneys worth with each game and then some. And thats before you even boot up multiplayer.

JsonHenry5456d ago

Played in the last two beta phases. This game is AWESOME in beta form.

RedDragan5456d ago

And what about Steam?

No word on that. Are the "expansions" going to be discounted as well on that platform or will the many thousands of people who choose digital download get screwed?

GrilledCheeseBook5456d ago

they don't use steam
they have their own DD platform Batlle.net

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Jerk1205457d ago

After WoW happened Blizzard became a greed machine, and this is without taking into account the merger with Activision.

HydraxFFx5457d ago

BULL-SHIT, Blizzard is one of the few companies who still care about the consumers.

Pennywise5457d ago

They care a little too much with the way they dumbed WoW down. I just got back into it and I miss the skill required. Everything seems so easy now.

captain-obvious5456d ago (Edited 5456d ago )

@ HydraxFFx
is that why they split the game in to 3 games ??

dude get real
im with Sleipnir on this one

and yah the next Starcraft could be an MMO just like what happen to warcraft

Legosz5456d ago (Edited 5456d ago )

Easy, right pennywise. Try 25 maning icecrown stage 3 and then you can tell me it is easy. I want video proof.

EDIT: Disagree with me all you want you know you no skill douchebags can't do it.

Pennywise5456d ago (Edited 5456d ago )

Wow, Legosz .... You need to calm the **** down.

I just started back after two years quit. I used to down anything important with my guild and I know the work it took for end game. I am not talking about end game. I am talking about leveling up and getting quests done.

I used to spend hours getting quest drops... not it is almost 100%. Elite mobs leveling up are not elite anymore. You don't need the hammer to bang the gong in ZF... Running instances (LEVELING UP) is easy as pie... just gather a bunch and move at a lightning pace. They dumbed it down.

I also know it is easy to get epics on your chars now... I don't know about you, but I used to play way back in the day. Vanilla WoW as some may call it... the game isn't the same as it used to be.

Having said that, you are a jerk... no need to be so hostile. Typical WoW elitist response from you though. Go take a shower and throw away your poop sock.

EDIT: Thank you, Raf1k1 - I was in those guilds farming BWL and MC back when... also AQ and NAXX. These new players have no idea what skill is.

Raf1k15456d ago (Edited 5456d ago )

He's comparing it to the way it used to be since vanilla WoW was harder. Back then it was eaxtremely difficult to complete the top end raids as only the most hardcore guilds could do AQ and Naxx. These days there a many more players able to do ICC 25 man raids.

Theres also a huge difference in time required to skill up professions ans XP required to level to 70 has been reduced a lot.

edit: NVM, he's said it just before I did.

HydraxFFx5456d ago

Name any other developer that puts as much effort and time into their games as Blizzard; SC2, D3 and War4, that frequently talk with the community through the forums and even arrange dates to play with fans, that has there own convention for fans to join up and enjoy. They STILL update Diablo 2 and Starcraft along with the regular WoW patches every few months. Starcraft being split into three games is for each race to get it's own full story and the others are not even full price games but expansion packs. http://www.shacknews.com/on...
You need to get real, Blizzard has ONLY released quality products for their fans.

ALFAxD_CENTAURO5456d ago (Edited 5456d ago )

Blizzard care about their Consumers.

Just look the great deals of Starcraft 2 in other Countries, like Mexico.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/20...

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Baka-akaB5456d ago (Edited 5456d ago )

"the without taking in account the merger" part is quite the BULL-SHIT .

From the moment wow was released it always had patches with far more content than any other concurrent .

And if someone else had a hold of each of their expansion , they'd have cut it down at least in half and sold it twice .

After the merger now , while still a quality oriented company , they've made some dubious choices (hence my refusal to buy starcraft 2 with regional restrictions and till a bundle of all three campaigns appears) , wich can maybe be blamed on activision , but that's it .

f7897905456d ago

They spent way too much on this game to be a greed machine. Granted it's nothing compared to their income but they definitely wanted it to be good.

badz1495456d ago

but selling the full experience of 1 game at the price of 3 is a sign of greed no matter what you wanna say! don't say it like other companies don't spend just as much resources on their games but Blizzard is the only 1 doing this! I don't see EA sells their RTS games separated! right....because SC is like the most popular RTS on earth and will sell millions for sure, they wanna triple their income it by ripping-off fans!

Baka-akaB5456d ago

you are the one spinning and scrapping the barrel here .

Starcraft is easily bigger than COD , and blizzard decided instead to turn Warcraft into a big thing ... while they could have easily milk starcraft .

With anyone else's standard we'd be at starcraft 6 by now and easily 50+ million games sold.

olit1235456d ago

I don't think they are greedy. Now that they have tons of money coming in they can afford to put a lot of time into there games to make it perfect. Many games that are released these days don't reach their full potential because of publishers trying to hurry the game out or they don't have much of a budget.

As long as blizzard have the amount of money coming in that WoW is providing them with currently, they have all the time in the world to develop it and can put the game out when it's ready. Also, I remember hearing in an interview that each campaign for SC:II are very long.

kevnb5456d ago

some illogical cost argument.

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Caspel5457d ago

I cannot stand when publishers release all-CG trailers and commercials with no gameplay footage.

Seijoru5456d ago

Yeah that's what pissed me off about the Old Republic trailers.

GrilledCheeseBook5456d ago

RTS gameplay don't make for good cinematic trailers
the beta showed the multiplayer and they already showed off a few missions

Onsyman5457d ago

I really think that at the stage that Blizzard has reached they can do whatever they want and we will still pay them, they control us.

badz1495456d ago (Edited 5456d ago )

I'm a huge fan of SC but Blizzard is now asking me to pay triple the price for the sequel which so far looks like the original with upgraded graphics (like it should, it's been 10 years) and just some added units! will I be paying just because Blizzard is oh-so-almighty and I'm a huge fan? there's a fine line between a fan and a sheep and I know I'm not a sheep! will you be one? your choice

DarkBlade46585457d ago

Finding out about SC2 splitting into 3 games, I was a little disapointed with them. I however don't doubt that the games will still be phenomenal.

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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.

meganick234d 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.

waytoobad233d 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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crazyCoconuts258d 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

pwnmaster3000258d ago

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

darthv72258d ago

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

pwnmaster3000258d 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.

SPEAKxTHExTRUTH258d ago

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

pwnmaster3000258d ago

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

just_looken258d 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.

pwnmaster3000257d 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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dveio258d 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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DivineHand125258d 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.

TheColbertinator258d ago

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

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$15 horse for WoW made more money than StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty

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.

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Sciurus_vulgaris594d ago

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.

Plague-Doctor27593d ago (Edited 593d ago )

Im surprised too. Starcraft was still a huge name in 2010. It was kinda the only new RTS around and other genres like MOBAs hadn't really kicked off yet. I do remember at the time sentiment around the game was
pretty angry the game was being split into 3 but I doubt that would have impacted sales to that degree

Sciurus_vulgaris593d ago

For a long time I believed StarCraft II sold on par or better than its predecessor. There was so much hype for the game. Plus it had a pretty strong E-Sports scene for a few years.

Myself and half a dozen friends all bought StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and played it religiously for a full year. While I bought the expansions, most of my friends did not. RPGs seem to be a generally low selling genre.

Nerdmaster593d ago

I'm not shocked at all. This was an early example of Blizzard being greedy. Instead of releasing a complete experience, splitting Starcraft 2 in 3 parts so it could make us purchase it 3 times if we wanted to know the whole story and play story mode with the other races.

Sciurus_vulgaris593d ago

I originally had that stance. However, Wings of Liberty, was just as long, if not longer than StarCraft 1. The expansions were of decent length too and added a good amount of additional content.

il-JumperMT593d ago

and people wonder why we are having mtx in everything. i blame the people who actual buy them.

Nerdmaster593d ago

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.

Extermin8or3_593d ago

This right here is the fucking problem.

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