Blizzard not milking StarCraft 2, money was 'never part of the conversation'

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.

this is still bullshit. I'll gladly wait an extra 2 years for blizzard to finish the game so I can play all 3 campaigns from day one.

whatever happend to "when its done, it's done"?

You know what... I believe him.

Blizzard doesn't need the money and lets face it, the more Starcraft, the better for us.

The immense amounts of bullshit coming out of every orifice of that guy's body distracted me from whatever message he was trying to convey.

They can't charge you monthly for it, so why not make you pay 3x the ammount of one game?
I honestly see this as being a horrible move on their part. You buy the first of the three, and you can't Vs Zerg or Protos? What gives, if you want the whole experience you gotta spend $150. I honestly don't see this benefiting anyone BUT the Blizzard people. Are the people on battle.net going to only be able to play as Terran until the Zerg or Protos games get released? It's like buying a copy of Diablo 2 and only being able to pick one class until you buy another copy of the game!

BULLSHIT Blizzard. Utter Bullshit.

Hardcore gamers? Hardcore Complainers is more like it.

Each of the three games has a campaign that's as long or longer than the combined 3 racial campaigns of SC1

You only have to buy the first game for full ZvTvP multiplayer gameplay.

They're not going to charge a subscription fee for Battle.net but they are going to have special features that you can pay for and/or DLC. (I asked the lead dev of Diablo III during their Blizzcon panel)

@Squeewupiwupi

So you mean, like, some people are going to have nicer things than me in SC2 and D3, breaking the perfect balance of the original RTS? WOO! THAT IS FUCKING AWESOME!

I will forever be a starcraft fan, not fanboy - so it'll give me more incentive to have 2 friends buy the other campaigns so I don't have to buy 3 times the disks