Blizzard to Rape Your Wallet

[Crompee]

I'm not surprised, kinda saw it coming. Valve started it with Half-Life 2 and it was very successful, so why wouldn't Blizzard wanna piece of the action? :p Personally I got no problem with it, providing the pricing is good (i.e. each "episode" doesn't cost the same amount as a full game, cause no way would I shell out AU$70 to AU$99.95 per episode - that would be AU$210/~AU$299 for a game! I don't think so...)

The problem is, that this isnt an episode in the sense that you've defined; Its cutting the gameplay into three pieces. This isnt just making a big story and telling it via three episides.. as each episode is now an entirely different experience due to the races. Which is bad, as some people love playing Zerg (or Protoss/Terran) but now cant until there 'episode' is released etc.

[zeta_immersion]

Hei guys i have this computer ... but i am seeling the cpu, you can play starcraft 2 but then if you need the mobo, ram and what not let me know :D ... stupid, just stupid ... while 3 disks give a more in-depth story, you have to pay more ... then again, it might be worth it ... reamains to be seen

[Scirwode]

Although I can see their reason in doing it, I'm not happy. It has always been released with all three campaigns, so it should continue to be doing so. There is a reason why I avoided WoW.

Scirwode

[shadowless911]

I agree with others that said It depends really on gameplay length of each campaign.

[sin-ergy]

Bleh. I just read that they may start charging for Battle.net.

~_~

[shakey]

this is utter crap, plain and simple.

No one would buy C&C if u had to buy each single player faction singly. No one would buy Red Alert 2 either if it did the same thing.

Half lifes episodes are only like 20 bucks each. If blizzard makes their game 20 bucks each, then maybe, cause 60 for a really good game is a reasonable price. But if they charge anymore for each, its robbery. Would be like if valve charged people in team fortress 2 to play as different classes. 5 bucks a class on top of purchasing the game... it wouldnt fly to well.. and this shouldnt either, if its not fairly priced.... lol

[Lasker]

this is utter crap, plain and simple.

No one would buy C&C if u had to buy each single player faction singly. No one would buy Red Alert 2 either if it did the same thing.

Half lifes episodes are only like 20 bucks each. If blizzard makes their game 20 bucks each, then maybe, cause 60 for a really good game is a reasonable price. But if they charge anymore for each, its robbery. Would be like if valve charged people in team fortress 2 to play as different classes. 5 bucks a class on top of purchasing the game... it wouldnt fly to well.. and this shouldnt either, if its not fairly priced.... lol

If these ###### of Blizzard make each release $50 bucks will be a completely rape, $20 bucks will be all right.

[Argote]

And thus, Blizzard begins it's fall from grace

[clx]

^ agreed

one would think making $180million + a month was enough for most companys....

[Skulltrail-old]

Hahaha, yeah, who didn't see that coming :(

I didn't like Starcraft. I'm hoping Blizz don't pull this on Diablo 3 :-\

Hopefully not. Otherwise (N)

Utter crap. Three separate games? Give me a break!!!!!! An no I will not think of them as expansion packs. I'll think of it as what I should have gotten with ONE purchase.

+1

[Knightwolf20024]

yea , not gonna pick this up till all three are out and are inside the bargain bin.

[Argi]

Soooo did anyone actually watch the panel when this was announced? They said they had 3 options.

1. Release 3 campigns that didn't feel epic

2. Create and release each campaign individually but have them feel each like a standalone product

3. Create all 3 epic campaigns in the single product but delay the product significantly

Rob Pardo asked the crowd which one they'd prefer, everyone cheered at 2 and that's when he announced that that's what they had chosen.

All this "Blizzard falling from grace" is funny though.

[qdave]

thats a really weird move by blizzard!

[Razorwing]

Well the thing everyone liked about SC1 was that there WAS 3 Factions. Now SC2 is seperated how the heck do you play online? Like you obviously can only play Terran but the other 2?

On possibly a good point, Blizzard could actually add factions to the three, thus, making SC2 very very big. who knows? Thoughts?

[PricklyPoo]

Well the thing everyone liked about SC1 was that there WAS 3 Factions. Now SC2 is seperated how the heck do you play online? Like you obviously can only play Terran but the other 2?

No...You can play all 3 online...

But you have to pay for the 3 separate offline campaigns.

I think.

[Shadrack]

It could be that each campaign is a full size game. When it is released, we can say it is a total jip or not. Until then it is all speculatory.

[shakey]

if we accept this, we will be just allowing other companies to follow suit. Our RPGs will no longer be in full game format, but because it will take 80 hours to beat, they will sell it to us as 3 different acts. I can see it now. Oh the horror. Sooooo, think console gamers would accept this? having to buy multiple copies of their games just to see the other side of the story... stupid plain and simple.

[Spacce]

Personally I like this but I can see how it's kinda bad..

I mainly just like playing the Terran anyway.. so why play the other 2? but thats just me I guess..

[sTIMPZ]

Blizzard is/was best game company around too~ haven't decided yet if I will even buy SC2 as I haven't played the original in years, but this is just a dick move. Whoever cheered for this in the audience is retarded...SC1's campaign sucked (imo) mainly because it was very drawn out and got boring halfway through each race. How do you suppose they have fixed that issue? There's only so many elements you can introduce to the story per mission before it gets repetitive.

It's a multiplayer game. That's where Starcraft was meant to shine. Let it continue to be that way with SC2 imo.

[remix17]

It would have been a smart move in a world where there in no piracy. But would people really cash out $50 for each game?

[C++]

I like how many people are surprised about this. Don't you know that this isn't the same company and these aren't the same people who made the first game? An incredible number of people left Blizzard when Vivendi bought them.

[Argi]

I like how many people are surprised about this. Don't you know that this isn't the same company and these aren't the same people who made the first game? An incredible number of people left Blizzard when Vivendi bought them.

Who left? Source?

[Argote]

This would only be acceptable if you only got 1 campaign + multiplayer for say, $50 and then each additional campaign would cost like $10-15 and be released when it's done.

Lots of people will just want the multiplayer, and that way we don't have to buy the multiplayer component each time.

[Argi]

First of all, they haven't annouced any prices. The only thing they've said is that each of the campaigns will be as epic and deep as a standalone campaign.

[C++]

Who left? Source?

This was years ago and I am not a big enough Blizzard fanatic to have memorized the names. Look it up dude.