RELEASE DATE: July 27th

[Zabimaru]

Why does everyone say its a day after their birthday and crap. I don't want to sound like a dick but, nobody here cares when your birthday is. I swear I see people on every news site saying the same thing. I don't know why but it just annoys the piss out of me.

It's a few days BEFORE my brithday. Make ya happy?

[TheEconomist]

A few points.

- Shitty macro mechanics [I like them but I think I can see your point]
- Too many returning Zerg units [AGREE, but not sure if it's a problem for me]
- Uselessness of melee units [OMFG AGREE]
- The continued existence of the Thor and Roach [I like Thor Roaches are boring.]
- Various lackluster models and voices [I wish I had sound ]

^ Laziness from me.

[n00bonicPlague]

OMG THAT'S 12528000 SECONDS BEFORE MY BIRTHDAY!!!x

[Josue]

OMG THAT'S 12528000 SECONDS BEFORE MY BIRTHDAY!!!x

Lol, maybe it's just we all want SC2 as birthday present.
But it's true that it's two days after my birthday

BTW anyone knows what the final game system requirements are?
I only recall this ones for the beta:

The minimum system requirements for the Starcraft II Beta are as follows:

PC Minimum Requirements:
• Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1/Windows 7
• 2.2 Ghz Pentium IV or equivalent AMD Athlon processor
• 1 GB system RAM/1.5 GB for Vista and Windows 7
• 128 MB NVidia GeForce 6600 GT/ATI Radeon 9800 PRO video card
• 1024x768 minimum display resolution
• 4 GB free hard space (Beta)
• Broadband connection

[//MavericK\\]

If these lingering problems are holding some back, then don't buy the game. Leave it on the shelf and keep your money in your wallet. You will be in the minority.

This game might not be perfect and 100% balanced, but someone point me out a game, any game, that truly is. The only ones that I can think of are maybe chess and checkers. Pong too, maybe.

It took a bunch of patches, an entire expansion, and a few more patches to get Starcraft I up to snuff and I wouldn't consider it a perfect game either.

I feel that Starcraft II is a well-polished and worthy successor to the original Starcraft and Broodwar.

Blizz, release this bugger!

[Alex]

Finally, it's about time!
Now I should pre-order the collector's edition...
Does anyone know a shop that sells it and offers international shipping?

[Kimera757]

All I can say is... it's weird they know the release date, almost three months before beta ends.

I hope, if there's some problem, they'll delay it. February to July is a pretty reasonable beta length though, so I doubt there'll be a problem. But a fixed release date almost three months in the future takes away some of Blizzard's flexibility.

[//MavericK\\]

I agree with you Kimera...

But Blizz must be very happy with were the beta is at right now to be announcing any kind of release date.

The next three months, I think, are going to be more about minor tweaking and far less about massive patches and changes.

[jinzougen]

What's the difference between the collectors edition and the standard edition?

[n00bonicPlague]

What's the difference between the collectors edition and the standard edition?

Standard gets you the basics: campaign, multiplayer, and map editor. The Collectors Edition gets you some juicy extras. They aren't required to play the game, but they are very juicy. It's stuff like special avatars, special models, a WoW Thor pet, and other stuff. Like I said, not needed in order to play the game, but still — very, very juicy.