Anybody feel the same?

[Moser]

I dont have anything against WarCraft or anything, but I really think Blizzard needs to lay-off with the WarCrafts and get Starcraft 2 our there.. i'm getting a little antsy. O_o Anybody else feel the same?

[Ole-The-Murder]

Yes. Simple thang.

[J_Tal]

:cuss: i think they are in development but it will be some time before it comes out. they are making profit on warcraft but more people are complaining about starcraft:mad2: it needs to come out soon or they will loose people.

[MrMer]

Warcraft was good at first, but it got old way faster than Starcraft will. Starcraft was Blizzards best game ever, and if/when they SC2, they need to go slowly. If they completely mess up SC2 like they did WC3, Blizzard couold go out of buissness, because infuriated SC fans would mob them.

[Moser]

I probably wouldn't stop playing SC just becuase of SC2 not comin out, i'd just be a little.. dissapointed with blizzard. SC2 would be VERY nice, but SC is a good enough game to keep me occupied.

[Maegtelluma]

I think any new SC game will outsell a Warcraft computer game, just because so many people have been waiting, and personally, i think SC has a better reputation with most of the blizzard community.

[Modred]

The thing with SC2 is that Blizzard games usually take another year or two to come out after they are announced. So if by chance that SC2 were the current "unknown" project at Blizzard, it probably wouldn't be announced until they had a workable engine and screenshots, which would probably be late this year, possibly even late 2005 depending on when they started and how much work they are placing on it (probably little, since Ghost and WoW are coming out sooner and require more attention at the moment). So, if SC2 were announced in say...July 2005, I'd estimate that it would be out by Christmas 2006.

Not that Blizzard procrastinates or anything...they just take extra care to make sure that everything is as perfect as possible before releasing a game...remember that WarIII was scheduled for early 2001, but didn't come out until July 2002.

But since SC2 probably isn't even in production....we won't see it for a while. But maybe it will be started in the near future and the game will come out say...in 2008, just in time for SC's tenth anniversary. Perhaps release it on the same day of the month that the first SC came out on...but I'm getting ahead of myself.

[Lord_Sirian]

Modred... I think you are a Blizzard agent sent here to quell our anger...:\

[Nahotnoj]

somehow I dont think saying that scII wont be released until 2005-2008 would really quell anyones anger...

btw, yes I agree with this all the way.

[Lord_Sirian]

I didnt say he was doing a good job

[Duddits]

Buddy, everyone feels the same. That plus they are making Diablo's out the ass.... I seriously wouldn't give much thought at all to buying SC2. I'd be saving money up forwhatever it is I am doing.

[Lord_Sirian]

Well, buddy... I cant read everyones thoughts.

[Modred]

I was just pointing out that it isn't feasible for SC2 to be very far in production at this time, if it is in production at all. Thus...QUIT WHINING. :p

Although I wouldn't mind hearing about it coming out soon....

[xjudicator]

Modred, I ain't whining...I'd love for a SCII to come out, but I'm perfectly satisfied w/ the original Starcraft game. I play it all the time. Does anybody here edit the hundred or so games SC comes w/ and play them over and over?
if not, whatever...

[Modred]

Hehe...I'm working on an Undercover Blizzard Agent sig now...

[HackingVictim]

God help us all........

Modred, Don't make me go Zelda on your ass:).............

[Nahotnoj]

Zelda is the best! (the game, not princess zelda (except in ssmb))

[Moser]

hah, from SC to Zelda.. Come to think of it, i never really got into that game. Well, guess what i am gonna go do. *runs off and picks up gameboy and slides in Zelda.* :-p

[Killphill]

Mabye the people at Blizzard would miss these threads, mabye they love reading them. Yah they would project post on the wall that would be like "I think Blizzard will make Starcraft 2 by summer 2004" then everyone would burst out laughing.

I finished Warcraft III Frozen Throne a couple days ago and you know the Finale for the Undead campagne (not the cinematic) I was so scared that blizzard got lazy and didn't bother to make a realy end of game cinematic. It was in a new way though, the sword, the camera angles.

[Moser]

Warcraft, thats another game i never really got into. :cry: But now i am going to go out and buy it, well sometime soon. Cuz its a blizzard game, so that automatically means it kicks the donkeys ass.

[Modred]

Heh...you can try to go Zelda on my ass, but it won't help if you don't have the Master Sword. According to one of my friends (who is nicknamed Link), I am Ganon.

[Moser]

Anybody think that it would be possible to make SC2 into a prequal (sp*) type thing?

[Modred]

It would be possible, however the limitations would be massive.

Zerg/Protoss contact would be required to stay almost nonexistent until near the very end of the game. The Terran's wouldn't even know aliens exist. Perhaps then they could work a campiagn where you jump between races rather than play an entire race for the whole campaign...you know, so you can see all sides of the story at nearly the same point. Would be almost necessary once first contact was made (if it were in the game).

[Nahotnoj]

Hmm.. thats a good idea... sometime im going to make a OoT mapp.

[Moser]

If they did make it into a prequel then they could have more races that have been already whiped out by the zerg.. O_o

[Lord_Sirian]

ok,ok but you seemed to giving far too many reasons excusing their bahavior... Suspicous was the first word that entered my mind

[LordHarrison]

Firstly...Warcraft III wasn't that bad...It was quite good in my opinion

Secondly i agree that they should of reintroduced starcraft BEFORE warcraft III. I mean its been years and we've seen a few warcraft games emerge yet they have left starcraft in the dust.

[Moser]

Yeah, WarCraft is pretty good. But I still think that any Starcraft game would outsell any WC game (somebody said that earlier in the thread but im to lazy to figure out who).

[GoatseS_BoxeR]

Blizzard just cant take the cchallenge of building another starcraft. because if they build starcraft 2 it needs to be better then starcraft:broodwar both in gameplay and storyline. Thats y i think no one in blizzard has taken the challenge of making starcraft 2 cuz its just too hard to make it better than starcraft. I think theyll just stick to sc ghost franchise

[BSTRhino]

Yeah, I agree that Blizzard face two problems:

Making a game better than the original StarCraft
Making a game that is still an RTS

It'll be interesting to see what StarCraft 2 is like, because I don't know how they could beat it.

[King_master]

One question, doesn't Blizzard have 3 teams?

For Warcraft
For Starcraft
Diablo
It seems logical that they should. If not why wonder it takes them so long to put out games.

[BSTRhino]

Yes, they do, good observation King_master. Actually the teams are split up more like this:

RTS - Blizzard
RPG - Blizzard North

Although, the lines between Blizzard and Blizzard North seem to be blurring now. I don't know who it is that's developing World of WarCraft.

StarCraft: Ghost is being programmed primarily by Nihilistic, a company completely separate from Blizzard.

[King_master]

So really, even though SC and Warcraft are owned both by blizzard, both products are competing. I'd say they are competing neck to neck, man it's gotta be hard to be in that position, specialy if your a Warcraft person. Cuz I know that Warcraft didn't do as well as SC did.

Also Nihilistic have two products according to their website http://www.nihilistic.com/index.php Ghost and Vampire

Now did Blizzard just hire this company to do Ghost for them? The way I'm seeing it, is blizzard is the supervisor and Nihilistic is the technical part of it.

[Duddits]

Well, buddy... I cant read everyones thoughts.
It's ok, buddy. Not everyone is as good as me sometimes.

I would have to wonder though. What kind of rioting would break out when Blizzard announces D3 before SC2?

[Maegtelluma]

Some damn freaky rioting. A lot of bad things would happen.

And yeah, WC and SC do compete, somewhat. Nihilistic is doing the lion's share of the work for Ghost, but that's ok, Blizzard is basically providing the liscense, and then giving them instructions for what they want. The reason the games take so long is that they have more game series than teams, and they take a long time and put a lot of effort into each game. It would make sense to get more teams working, but chances are Blizzard has insufficient funding, or the quality would just go down due to game makers with less experience. All of those blizzard employees leaving didn't help...

[warmasterofoblivian]

I dont have anything against WarCraft or anything, but I really think Blizzard needs to lay-off with the WarCrafts and get Starcraft 2 our there.. i'm getting a little antsy. O_o Anybody else feel the same?


idiot warcraft good they will stop eventually now stop your whining

[ButterOfDolphin]

I would laugh if Blizzard made a public announcment saying something like "We have given up on making Starcraft 2. Starcraft: Broodwar is just too perfect a game to be improved upon. You may now stone us."

[singo]

i wouldnt

[Dark_Viper]

I would laugh if Blizzard made a public announcment saying something like "We have given up on making Starcraft 2. Starcraft: Broodwar is just too perfect a game to be improved upon. You may now stone us."
i wouldnt joke about that if i were you... to many people would kick your @$$ if you said that infront of them

[dark-kirby]

Youd get the sh1t beaten out of you.

I think, if we want StarCraft 2 to become a BIG hit, we should wait until 2005-2007. We dont want it to become a stupid game or lose its popularity. Good games need lots of time to create, and when their released, its a hit.