Fuck post-WoW Blizzard. They're asshats now.

I wouldn't be so sour if they weren't making Battle.net pay to play and over simplifying SCII.

Uh huh. The extra cash just happens to be an extra benefit of the bettered experience. Right.

Bunch of whoreshit.

Yeah, sure, whatever. But wouldn't 3 Starcraft 2's actually make it Starcraft 2-4?

wait...wut? 3 Starcraft 2's? did i miss something?

I thought they were just taking an "expansion" way of doing it. There's a chronological order to this right? I just don't get why everyone is all surprised about Blizzard dropping expansions when they've been doing this fucking forever. The real question is why they're doing two expansions instead of three

I'll buy the first one and pirate the other 2.

I'm sure this game will turn out just fine. I won't be playing it.

It prints money?

IT PRINTS MONEY!

I expect most people will buy the first one for multiplayer and pirate the rest.

I can just picture him saying this only barely keeping the laughs in.

Still waiting for the $30 "battle chest."

To turn this into a positive thing they've got to do one of two things:

They have to make each game cheaper. This one's simple, and is the most likely option for them. It may be a completely redesigned system with huge amounts of story in each box... but they're still all three the same in that they all produced from one development cycle and not three separate ones.

Or, they get the engine built, and then spend equal amounts of time developing content for each installment. That means if you've got three races for the first game, you've got to give us more for the next game. If that won't work with "the plan" then you've got to add new mechanics. Big mechanics.

Blizzard -must- admit to themselves that the situation they've created won't allow them to follow the simple, "It's an expansion! Charge full price!" method. They've got to eat their shit sandwich and step up on this one.

Its hilarious how dumb they are to think that people are dumb enough to swallow that bullshit hook, line and sinker.

Ok, so, how does this work? If I buy the version of Starcraft 2 with the Terrans, can I still play Protoss and Zerg in multiplayer?

If so, I get the feeling that I would get more value for my dollar getting just one version of SC2 than all of them. If not, then screw you, Blizzard.

Also, I want to be able to select as many units at one time as I like. Get on that, Blizzard.

*ahem* Pokemans Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Silver, Gold, Sapphire, Arse, Vommit.

Regardless, I've only played Starcraft a few times so I don't really care. But I'm sure all of you who like the game will still go out and wait in line through the harsh cold. Buy all 3 and run home so you can rub the boxes over your naked bodies and upload the videos to Pornotube so that Stephen Conroy can have an excuse to censor Australian Internet, all while you prepare to send in your recently materialised Zerg to invade Australia and force us Aussies to go to Candy Mountain while you steal our Kangaroos, Lamingtons and Kidneys.

seriously... why the hate?

Well considering the entire original Blizzard team that made the original Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo left the company, because the higher ups turned into greedy ass clowns and canned any original projects (Starcraft: Ghost, I'm looking at you) and told them to focus on World of Warcraft . . . what can you expect from the new cronies?

I don't know why, but the word BULLSHIT suddenly appeared in my mind. In giant bold lettering.

The only way the 3 game model is acceptable is if each game is released at $30 or less, and you know that's not happening.

And on top of that, if they are charging for Battlenet, that's just ridiculous. Getting at the minimum 2x the normal revenue from what should be one game, and then charging for online pay is the most blatant greed I have ever seen from a video game company. I really am not going to purchase this if Battlenet costs money.

who does this tool think he's fooling with that line of bullshit? it's bad enough that they're selling us SC2 three times over but to stand there and tell us that it has nothing whatsoever to do with money is fuckin' insulting...

I'll believe him when they sell the games for 20 bucks a piece.