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Well, I read the first line of the post and the comic in post 2 pretty much sums up the first thought that came to my head.  I was and am still pretty excited about SC:2 but to see it split up is a bit disappointing.  I'm not sure I really feel like forking over 3x the money to play 1 game.  Games already cost enough as it is.

I'm not sure how I feel about it; it is, and I don't know the real story with any degree of certainty. The world is, I just live in it atm... meanwhile

StarCraft II Trailers [October 11, 2008, 12:10 pm ET] - Share 

A pair of trailer for StarCraft II from BlizzCon 2008 are now available. There's a clip with a bit of Zerg versus Terran conflict on AtomicGamer, Gamer's Hell, and MyGameTrailers. There's also a Protoss versus Terran movie on AtomicGamer, Gamer's Hell, and MyGameTrailers.

Maybe not.

$150 to Play Full StarCraft II?
11th Oct 2008 10:15 PM GMT | Leord |Blizzcon 2008 Coverage >>

Since the announcement that StarCraft II will be shipping as three separate products to be the "StarCraft II Trilogy", there has been several criticising voices against this, in terms of having to purchase several boxes, and possibly paying $150 just to get the full game.

StarCraftWire.net had an interview with Chris Sigaty, where he disclosed the details of these statements, and whether or not players will have to get them all to play simple multiplayer with each other. As you can read from the StarCraft Gameplay Panel, the game will ship in three parts:

Wings of Liberty (Terran)
Heart of the Swarm (Zerg)
Legacy of the Void (Protoss)

It seems the decision to divide SC2 into three was discussed last BlizzCon, and got finalised sometime around new year, and now announced at BlizzCon. It will work more or less exactly like expansions, as two were already planned for SC anyway. This means that you will need to have all three boxes if you want to play with other people that have all three, or you can play in "Wings of Liberty Mode", which only requires that original box. Yes, this does mean that you will have to pay whatever price it would total to (they have not discussed that yet, ofc), in order to play

There will be about 30 maps per campaign, instead of 8-10, and will ship like proper standalone products.

Their response to negative opinions on buying three boxes to get one game is that the project is just so big, and it has more to do with time than money, meaning that they didn't want to let players wait for an additional year just to get the game. It's the same deal as two expansions, and people will probably be playing just "Wings of Liberty" as well as the additional content. This is very similar to how StarCraft I and WarCraft III works as well.

akb825 wrote:

At least they are saying that all 3 races will be available for multiplayer with each. (or with the main one, if they decide to go the expansion pack route)

I saw what you meant, tho. The first product is promised to have functioning MP for the 3 races as far as what's in the product.

Not all units in Campaign will be in MP, it's worth noting, as is news of the beta keys.

In telling this story they're aiming to make changes across the board. According to Sigaty, while there are lots of familiar elements, they are "totally changing the way you play." It appears this change will be most noticeable in the differentiation between single player and multiplayer modes. In single player mode, your goal is to complete the mission, while in multiplayer mode your goal is to defeat your opponent. In the original StarCraft, the way you go about that would often be the same. You zerg in multiplayer mode, you zerg in single player mode. You use the same units, the same structures, and sometimes even the same maps. No longer.

We learned earlier in the day from Rob Pardo that there will be units in the single player mode that are not usable in the multiplayer mode. Sigaty expanded upon this a little bit; Goliaths and those six-person Terran Bunkers will not be usable in multiplayer. By removing those units, and others like it, they will change significantly the way the multiplayer game is played compared to the single player. You can't just turtle your way through a multiplayer match with bunkers anymore.

When I asked Sigaty about the different parts of the trilogy and how each part would affect the multiplayer game, he said that each campaign will add something to the multiplayer game. Of course, one of the bigger questions today, we asked if multiplayer will be fully implemented with all the races when the first part of the SC2 trilogy is released? The answer is simple: "yes." Players will be able to play each and every race, setting them against each other in massive do-or-die battles.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/11/joyst … is-sigaty/

so basically, they'll have huge sales for the first, average for the second, and mediocre for the third

there's a reason they still sell StarCraft I battle chests and it's not the single player, now if they did it like steam (minus the annoying steam part) and you can buy subsequent expansions for like $10 or something.

I know I"m not going to wait till all three are out to get a battle chest deal, and I'm not dishing out $150 for a story told through RTS.

I will admit that I can see their side of it, they want to take on making this huge thing and selling all together in one box for $50 would take awhile to cover the cash and time investment, but most consumers don't think about the creation etc.  I really don't see them keeping up the sales after the first SCII installment, maybe if there's a year between each, which is likely, if not more, plus repeated winter releases makes christmas/hannukah/holdiays etc. etc. sales.

Then agaon, if all three installments contain the same MP installl, and just a different campaign, are the second and third really worth $50?  Since that would mean the first contains all the backbone and II and III just have premade maps, scripted computer play, and cinematics, minus new graphics/design/unit etc. design

There are no confirmed prices for anything at this point, AFAIK.