I think it's important to point out they basically turned SC into a free to play MMO. I can see why some people wouldn't like this, but I think the advantages outweigh the negatives.
In regards to SC2 being online.. you can play SC2 in offline mode and continue from where you left off. The only thing you don't have is multiplayer and achievements. I had a campaign rolling on my laptop, and when I was at a location with no internet, the moment I got to the main screen for the game or when I tried to login to battlenet it prompted me with 'play in offline mode' and I was able to continue the campaign from where I left it last. Just no achievements.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say with point 2. Because you can start the campaign over from scratch and play through the whole thing again from start to finish and make different choices than what you made last time.. I'm going through my second play through on hard and will be making the story line / unit choices I didn't make during the first play through.
And the custom games thing is one of the biggest issues on Blizzards plate right now.. us custom mappers in the forums have been going batshit nuts over the current state of the custom environment for SC2. And judging from Blizzards response this is something that will be changing over the next couple of months.
As for the region lock, this I do agree with 100% completely. And judging from the overwhelming response from the community I have a feeling it will be changing as well because there are many unhappy people regarding the region lock.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say with point 2. Because you can start the campaign over from scratch and play through the whole thing again from start to finish and make different choices than what you made last time.. I'm going through my second play through on hard and will be making the story line / unit choices I didn't make during the first play through.
And the custom games thing is one of the biggest issues on Blizzards plate right now.. us custom mappers in the forums have been going batshit nuts over the current state of the custom environment for SC2. And judging from Blizzards response this is something that will be changing over the next couple of months.
As for the region lock, this I do agree with 100% completely. And judging from the overwhelming response from the community I have a feeling it will be changing as well because there are many unhappy people regarding the region lock.
@Spykron - I don' think it as a free to play MMO seeing as I payed £35 to buy it...
@Magnalon - I totally agree, after all the effort the mappers have to put it to make the maps, bnet just takes a dump on them with the censoring and the lack of ease of finding / downloading custom maps.
@WastelandTraveler - Didn't know you could do that, not so bad after all on that point then. I just found it annoying when I couldn't log onto bnet and it didn't let me use my account :(. Also I might be cynical but regarding the region lock I think they are going to change it but not in the way people want. I can totally see them charging to unlock the other regions to cover "server costs" and other such excuses.
@Magnalon - I totally agree, after all the effort the mappers have to put it to make the maps, bnet just takes a dump on them with the censoring and the lack of ease of finding / downloading custom maps.
@WastelandTraveler - Didn't know you could do that, not so bad after all on that point then. I just found it annoying when I couldn't log onto bnet and it didn't let me use my account :(. Also I might be cynical but regarding the region lock I think they are going to change it but not in the way people want. I can totally see them charging to unlock the other regions to cover "server costs" and other such excuses.
@SpyKron - I thought you meant those browser based free MMOs lol.
Except it isn't a MMO really... It's straight up RTS imo, I don't see what differentiates it's online features from other RTS games or many other AAA titles that are not considered MMOs. World In Conflict had leagues/rankings, friends, clans, chatrooms, achievements e.t.c. as did Company of Heroes. The main crux of the game is in the 1v1 league play which whilst fun to play is not something I would consider a MMO.
In other genres Halo has ranked matches, custom maps, acheivements + ranks and party play. Infact I would consider Halo to be more massively multiplayer than SC2 due to the involvement of many other players in games and the ingame screenshot/video editing and sharing adding to the social aspect. I would still not consider it a MMO though. More of a online feature filled FPS.
Except it isn't a MMO really... It's straight up RTS imo, I don't see what differentiates it's online features from other RTS games or many other AAA titles that are not considered MMOs. World In Conflict had leagues/rankings, friends, clans, chatrooms, achievements e.t.c. as did Company of Heroes. The main crux of the game is in the 1v1 league play which whilst fun to play is not something I would consider a MMO.
In other genres Halo has ranked matches, custom maps, acheivements + ranks and party play. Infact I would consider Halo to be more massively multiplayer than SC2 due to the involvement of many other players in games and the ingame screenshot/video editing and sharing adding to the social aspect. I would still not consider it a MMO though. More of a online feature filled FPS.
As much as I like Starcraft II, all of your points are very discerning to me. Especially that online stuff.
i would really like to get into SC2, but i am going to have to wait a few years till netbooks can run the game.
as for your points being made, from what i have read (along with one of the replies in the comments here) you can play offline. I dont understand what is meant by "want to reset the campaign and start again". why would you not be able to do that?
anyway
I wonder if the region lock deal is going to be about national tourneys. That would interesting. Could SC2 become popular enough to air on ESPN ala Magic the Gathering tournaments use to?
as for your points being made, from what i have read (along with one of the replies in the comments here) you can play offline. I dont understand what is meant by "want to reset the campaign and start again". why would you not be able to do that?
anyway
I wonder if the region lock deal is going to be about national tourneys. That would interesting. Could SC2 become popular enough to air on ESPN ala Magic the Gathering tournaments use to?

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