Starcraft 2 Rumors?

[JerryS]

I played Starcraft way way way back in the day for a couple of months but quit because it was taking too much time.

I saw a link on digg I think the other day about Blizzard launching a beta version by the end of this year of Starcraft 2? Can anybody confirm?

[DaveTyler]

That's like too good to be true, ask Steve Pavlina though he'll make it in his reality and we can all enjoy it

[Dani]

I certainly hope not..

I had just gotten my life in order and stopped playing games. I do not need Number 2 of my favourite game of all time to be released....

[Freelancer]

Originally Posted by Dani

I certainly hope not..

I had just gotten my life in order and stopped playing games. I do not need Number 2 of my favourite game of all time to be released....

Don't play it?

[Bruce Achterberg]

Originally Posted by JerryS

I played Starcraft way way way back in the day for a couple of months but quit because it was taking too much time.

I saw a link on digg I think the other day about Blizzard launching a beta version by the end of this year of Starcraft 2? Can anybody confirm?

Blizzard have major issues with release dates. *Cough* Diablo II: Lord of Destruction 1.10 patch *Cough* Not that it's a bad thing, since they use that time to polish their games to multi-million dollar perfection and I really wish more game developers would do the same instead of shipping incomplete, piece o' garbage games that are all hype and no substance. But what I’m getting at is I wouldn’t put much credit on official Blizzard release dates, let alone unofficial ones.

As for Starcraft 2, I think you’ll see Diablo 3 before you see that game. And I think you’ll see World of Starcraft or World of Diablo before you see Diablo 3 (the MMO business model is vastly superior in terms of reaching a large audience and raking in tons of cash... and no, as far as I know, World of Starcraft/Diablo are not in production... although Gamespot.com had a pretty convincing Starcraft related April fools joke once, but I digress).

Originally Posted by Freelancer

Don't play it?

Blasphemy!

[JiriNovotny]

StarCraft is already perfect. It would take years to balance a new game to such an extent

Plus I am no fan of 3D RTS games.

[Dani]

Originally Posted by Freelancer

Don't play it?

That would virtually impossible.

I loved, and still love, starcraft so much that I would need to at least try it out.

[Tasaio]

Blizzard strongly implied at WOW:TBC launch that we'd have some sort of announcement about SC2 in 2007.

I was disappointed by WC3, and I hope they do a better job this time around.

1) Better story (Invading "army" consists of...5 demons)
2) Better graphics
3) Big armies
4) Get rid of the heroes in multiplayer
5) Make the races completely different
6) Add naval battles. We never got oil patches in WC3. WC2 had land, air, and sea.

[Gerald]

It's going to be hard to follow up on the original, that's for sure

[blueman70]

If Blizzard does come out with SC2, I am screwed