I'm hopeful that Starcraft 2 is Blizzards' way of re-integrating themselves back into gaming culture outside of their (great) MMO.
Call it a warm-up stretch.
But at center, I'm a jaded wreck; when I now look at Blizzard all I see is the money-grubbing sloshpit that is Activision and their up-front-about-it CEO.
Prove me wrong Blizz.

The lack of LAN play is a intentional decision, and will turn a small number of hard core players no longer relevant to Blizzard's 21st century business model off the game.

if they stop making games for the PC because of piracy, PC users will simply buy consoles and pirate those games.

i know a good chunk of pirates are the try before you buy type. Release good games with solid demos and you will make your fucking money. yes, it's hard to make a good game. yes there is lots of competition, especially from the indie game explosion enabled by digital distribution.

I mean, I don't feel i'm hurting for good games. I play about 25 hours a week of games, and there's a lot that I'll never get to play but are really good. Mostly singleplayer games. I feel like we cover the multiplayer gaming scene pretty well.

DO NOT BUY DO NOT BUY

I just heard from someone that played the entire game. You get the Terrain campaign ONLY. You are then possibly forced to purchase all other campaigns after wards. Very dirty trick fuck blizzard forever.

I wanna play it soooo bad but I also dont want to give them money.

I would have maybe waited for the price to go down and bought it.....IF they included the old version with it.

Judging by the first game, the price will go down in about 2025.

Dude, I'm really enjoying myself as is my brother and several RL friends I have and have been playing with nightly. It's FUN WHEEEEE!!

Also the single-player campaign is easily 14-20 hours and I don't give a FUCK about buying new ones later on if I'm still playing. WHEEE!! Even more if you decide you want all the damn achievements!! I want them but personally I kind of suck at this style of game and can't be fucked!! WHEE!! It's also a pretty damn fun and pretty single-player!! WHEE!

SUCK COCKS!!! WHEEE!!

Brandon

Dude, I'm really enjoying myself as is my brother and several RL friends I have and have been playing with nightly. It's FUN WHEEEEE!!

Also the single-player campaign is easily 14-20 hours and I don't give a FUCK about buying new ones later on if I'm still playing. WHEEE!! Even more if you decide you want all the damn achievements!! I want them but personally I kind of suck at this style of game and can't be fucked!! WHEE!! It's also a pretty damn fun and pretty single-player!! WHEE!

SUCK COCKS!!! WHEEE!!

Brandon

It will be interesting to see what happens with SC2 next week at QuakeCon. Steam is already a fucking pain in the ass at LANs, but WoW was possible before they blocked it, so BNet might actually work.

Dude, I'm really enjoying myself as is my brother and several RL friends I have and have been playing with nightly. It's FUN WHEEEEE!!

Also the single-player campaign is easily 14-20 hours and I don't give a FUCK about buying new ones later on if I'm still playing. WHEEE!! Even more if you decide you want all the damn achievements!! I want them but personally I kind of suck at this style of game and can't be fucked!! WHEE!! It's also a pretty damn fun and pretty single-player!! WHEE!

SUCK COCKS!!! WHEEE!!

Brandon

Or if Blizz was halfway fucking competent they could have left some LAN support in SC1.2 so that it could recieve some decent exposure at events like that. You don't see me cutting off my own balls in the name of copyright protection. Just saying.