RELEASE DATE: July 27th

[ArcherofAiur]

What am I supposed to do until July 27 after classes end?

Beta?

[Dread_Reaper]

I for one am not too pleased about this, and I can't believe I'm saying that since I have been waiting for about half of my life for this game to come out. The Zerg are not ready. The Zerg are excruciatingly boring as a race, they have none of their original spark of pizazz, and certainly none of the game play polish that we see from the other two races. July isn't enough time to overhaul them.

I am actually hoping they'll delay the launch for another year.

-Dread_Reaper

[Dragoonx]

I for one am not too pleased about this, and I can't believe I'm saying that since I have been waiting for about half of my life for this game to come out. The Zerg are not ready. The Zerg are excruciatingly boring as a race, they have none of their original spark of pizazz, and certainly none of the game play polish that we see from the other two races. July isn't enough time to overhaul them.

I am actually hoping they'll delay the launch for another year.

-Dread_Reaper

Screw that. I'll be damned if the game is delayed yet again for the Zerg when their expansion is coming up next along with the obvious patches inbetween.

[Ashoto]

Are you nuts man? Another year = /wrists!

Can't wait to get my hands on it. Watching only replays just doesn't work for me anymore :\

[Eligor]

Who would've thought a release date announcement would've elicited so many complaints.

But seriously, the first StarCraft was just as problematic upon its release date and took years of play by millions of people to get right. For some reason people think that the beta would be enough to get the game perfectly balanced (apart from its creative and theoretical aspects game balance is a mathematical-alchemical process of finding the golden ratios between HP, DPS, armour, mana costs, cooldowns, unit velocities and other sundry factors, months are not enough).

In any case, I'm VERY excited about the campaign (despite that pesky Kerrigan recasting I hope they can still recapture the magic).

[ArcherofAiur]

Screw that. I'll be damned if the game is delayed yet again for the Zerg when their expansion is coming up next along with the obvious patches inbetween.

"OH theylll surely fix zerg soon."


few months later


"OH theylll surely fix zerg soon."


few months later


"OH theylll surely fix zerg soon."


few months later...

[Dread_Reaper]

Who would've thought a release date announcement would've elicited so many complaints.

But seriously, the first StarCraft was just as problematic upon its release date and took years of play by millions of people to get right. For some reason people think that the beta would be enough to get the game perfectly balanced (apart from its creative and theoretical aspects game balance is a mathematical-alchemical process of finding the golden ratios between HP, DPS, armour, mana costs, cooldowns, unit velocities and other sundry factors, months are not enough).

In any case, I'm VERY excited about the campaign (despite that pesky Kerrigan recasting I hope they can still recapture the magic).

See, the inherent difference is that this isn't a questions of 10HP here and 20 seconds there, this is an issue of the units themselves, and their abilities. Those are not the kind of problems that SC1 had, and they certainly aren't the kind of issues that can be fixed by patches.

Keep in mind as well Dragoonx, that expansion set is at least a YEAR away. A year of these broken Zerg? How do you think the game's going to work with 1/3 of the races unplayable?

The other thing that bothers me is the voice acting. Almost universally terrible amongst the Protoss and Zerg, and a good handful of the Terran. THAT won't be fixed in a patch later.

I'm sorry man, we have waited way too long to receive something that isn't up to par.

-Dread_Reaper

[Blazur]

Fuck... 3 days after my girlfriend's birthday... I wont have money by then...

Start saving now bro! This is an investment that's worth saving up for.

[DemolitionSquid]

Start saving now bro! This is an investment that's worth saving up for.

Bad investing is what caused the +10$ hike in the first place!

[BusinessMonkey]

Just payed for the Collector's Edition at Blockbuster in Denmark, where they also have a betakey giveaway. Anyhoo. The danish Blockbuster site said it costed 599 DKK where they're selling it for 799, but when I pointed this out they sold it to me for 599! Got it the cheapest possible for now. Hope the price doesn't go alot under when it'll come out!
Hehe.

Btw, 599 DKK is 104 USD, and here CE sells between 699 and 899.