Heart of the Swarm Beta Early Summer

[Noctis]

It's funny how the galactic editor has the potential to disrupt Blizzard's activity. I believe the tool is WAY stronger than what we all expected. With the proper knowledge someone could format the whole campaign and rewrite a new one over it. Blizz can't sue you for creating new games and maps because they own everything. The worst thing that may happen is that your game is taken down, like WoS and the HotS custom maps.

It's a legitimate point, but I think it's something we can only be wary of if Blizzard starts doing it excessively. I enjoyed the Hots map but I can also understand why they would feel the need to stop it. Why sign up and participate in beta's when i can just play the game? Or heck the custom map could be mis-representing the actual game too. time will tell.

[Pr0nogo]

Blizzard didn't even package the proper tools with the game. They used a 3DS Max plugin that they still don't have for the rest of us to use, and while they could have used the Galaxy Editor to make their campaign, they didn't. This was also true for WarCraft III, except they let us use the damn plugins required to model.

[topsecret221]

They didn't ship it for us because it's not their program to sell. If you want to, you can buy it off of their website, though.

[Pr0nogo]

..No, you don't understand. You need the plugin in order to make models compatible with SCII (at least, you do if you don't want to do any roundabout way that I don't recall).