Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce recently sat down with VG247 and talked a bit about the potential of a fourth race in StarCraft II. Pearce points out that the development team talked about a fourth race early in development, but decided that adding one in would squash some of the new ideas that Blizzard wanted to implement with the game.
We talked about the possibility of a fourth race early on, but we felt like we had a finite amount of great ideas and wanted to make sure we focused all the cool, best ideas on the existing three races rather than diluting those ideas across four races
Earlier in the discussion, Pearce said that Blizzard doesn’t “have the resources or time to add a fourth race to the launch” of StarCraft II, but doesn’t rule out the possibility of having one in an expansion pack. In fact, he was sure that another race is a “feature that’ll come up for discussion” whenever Blizzard decides to roll one out.
Personally, I think StarCraft II is the epitome of playing it safe. I’m not seeing anything truly remarkable from Blizzard from this title, and I am slightly disappointed. I never really got into the original game, but I would be more willing to check out StarCraft II if I saw something exciting like a new race tossed into the mix.
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1:17 PM on 08.29.2008
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I honestly do not know how it happened and regret I missed them somehow.
Hell if Blizz said, "Hey! We're just rereleasing Starcraft with much better graphics but everything will be the same and we're charging $50 for it!" I would still buy it, because I love Starcraft.
I hope the SCII campaign deals with the hybrids, because that was something I never knew about until I saw the secret level on Youtube then tried it for myself.
SC has always been about balance. Blizzard's product mantra has always been about polish.
Those two go hand in hand to make a great game.
Given the pace they work at, the polish and balance would have been adversely affected by adding of a fourth race.
It think it's an excellent decision for a game company. They know they can do it, they just know that they won't be able to complete it in their imposed time frame.
From our point of view now, we see "oh it's only new graphics", because we can't play it ATM. The truth is there a completely new balance in the game. This is only something you discover when you play it. Also, there is a whole new story line.
The truth is, they are taking a big risk by just announcing SC2 because SC1 was so popular (and still is). Anything less than blizzard's best will be met with ire and internet rage.
A fourth race sounds cool, but i don't want it in the game unless there is balance on the whole.
More is not necessarily better. A balanced, deep RTS with a good background will shine without adding in unnecessary extra races. The whole last paragraph of your article makes me think you'd drop SCII in 2-3 months even if they did add another race. Brood War "only" added a couple units to each race and completely changed the way the game was played online.
More is not better. Better is better.
WE MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS
It's sad that I actually hear the voice from the game when I read that.
But first we require additional vespane gas!
I'm glad they are sticking to 3 races for now. If they were gonna add a 4th race in an expansion they better make sure all 4 races are balanced. Honestly starcraft is just such a perfect game if you like great depth and gaps in skill lvls, from newbie - pro. Its a game based on micromanagement / macromanagement and having a huge library of build orders to deal with every kind of situation. These things are what makes the korean pro gamers so fun to watch.
seriously chess 2.0 lol.
Starcraft is the only pc game I will play... I'm gonna go play pixel junk monsters, I love tower games.
No third race, I just want them to continue the story!
Who the hell is Duran?
You do know that starcraft is still, after 10 or so years, the biggest competetive game in atleast korea, and probably the world since korea is such a big part of the scene.
Blizz is already making all the money they need on wow and with starcraft2 they're probably mostly trying to please the fans and create a game so well-balanced it will be played for over 10 more years.
I dunno, Lords of Destruction was pretty goddamn huge, in terms of additional content.
I'm most likely not gonna be buying this. I've never been a big fan of strategy games outside X-com, and Starcraft is no exception. I own SC1, and I've played maybe twenty minutes total online ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaeHk4V5LDY