Do you think Blizzard will go with more than 1 expansion to SC2?

Well, if you look at all the scraped units, the extensive testing that takes years and the fact that we didn't have it for like 10 years, 2 expansions would be a bit too much. But those can also be the very reasons for making the second expansion. I honestly don't know. It's much too early to even talk about it when the game itself is quite far from ready and polished....

 

We gotta have SOMETHING to talk about while it's still in production, might as well be wild and completely unbased questions/accusations/etc.

 

Adding story and gameplay variety trhough expansions is alot less work and much quicker than making a whole new game.

 

SC 2 is kind of expansion?

 

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No.

It's Starcraft 2.

Not Starcraft: Brooder Wars.

 

Starcraft: Brood Wars: Pants

 

I voted one only

 

I'm kind of curious who the four people are that said, "Yes". Mainly because I want to know their reasoning, if anything but a guess. I wouldn't mind another expansion....more Starcraft II could ever be bad.

 

Starcraft story will have to end a day. There can be an expansion for SC2 (which would come in 10 other years after SC2), but it will be for Starcraft 3.

 

I guess your post confuses me a little bit, you're saying that if there's an expansion for SCII, it will be called StarCraft 3?

 

After the first expansion pack, if they only just added new campaigns I would pay full price for any and all expansions they release. I love the campaign THAT MUCH

I don't want the main campaign or the unit count/races getting that bloated.

 

Well in BroodWar, they added two to three new units to each race, right? Devourer and Lurker for Zerg, Dark Templar, Dark Archon and Corsair for Protoss and the Medic and Valkyrie for Terran, and there was a lot less that could be done back then, not to mention a lot less to do, so I wouldn't say it's unreasonable for StarCraft2 to have the capacity to have an extra three or four units, and provided that Blizzard paces themselves, they could easily be stretched across a couple of expansions, along with added campaigns as well obviously.

However, regardless of how many expansions they make, and regardless of how many sequels they make, the one thing they must avoid at all costs, no exceptions, is adding a fourth race.

It sucks when there's no poll option to fit your opinion. It's not even as though I'm sitting on the fence for this one, it's just that saying yes or no doesn't reflect what I'm saying at all.

 

Hmmm, I wonder if a mod could add a "not decided" option, or something of that effect to the poll...though most of the people who are going to vote already have.

 

Please, please Blizzard!! No fourth race .. Adding a fourth race (Other than Xel'Naga .. But even they are a bad choice.) would completely change what StarCraft is ...

Look at WarCraft 3 / World Of WarCraft

 

Ugh, a fourth race would make the game a ***** to balance. I mean, a lot of people did expect the Xel'Naga to make a return to this game...but maybe they can still make it. Except not as a fully playable race, but something you can play for a mission or two in the campaign. That could be fun!

 

They could be playable a la Naga from WarCraft 3.

 

I'd actually prefer it if the Xel'Naga remained unseen. It obviously doesn't have to be blatantly censored, like having random objects obstructing them, unEarthly bright lights behind them or anything, but just so they're not physically shown. Seriously, just think of how enigmatic they are at the moment. They've created two pure races, possess the unimaginably powerful Khaydarin Crystal, have build strange Temples, created planetary defence system bombs, and were forced to flee from the Zerg. Just think how much simply making an appearance would shatter that mystic shroud.

Besides, Zeratul says 'the Xel'Naga return', being the present tense, suggesting that they're still on their way, ergo, still time to act before they return and end 'the cycle', meaning they might never even make contact.

 

I don't see why Blizzard would go past one expansion. I think in the current technological state it's likely that there won't BE an expansion. Because of the rapidly increasing graphical abilities of new games, it might be more beneficial to start over with a new graphics engine for a new game (StarCraft III).

It will depend on whether the storyline becomes less interesting and engaging or not.

 

I'd be very surprised if there was no expansion to StarCraft2. It would be so much quicker to make than a whole new game, not to mention that they wouldn't have to wait until StarCraft2's flare dies down or until it's technologically worthwhile to improve the game as a whole. StarCraft's never been about graphics. That's clear by the fact that it's still being played now. BroodWar was released the same year as StarCraft1, right? I tried looking up how much it made, but wasn't able to find an amount. I did find, however, that ten million copies of StarCraft and BroodWar have been sold though, and assuming that the majority of people who buy StarCraft would buy BroodWar, that'd mean that BroodWar made at least four or so million sale, and that's with very little additional costs to develop it, seeing as they were only adding bits onto StarCraft, and not to mention, time.

Making an expansion would get a lot more people involved as well. For example, if they were just making the single player component of StarCraft2, not as many people would buy it, if they made the whole of StarCraft2 (which they're obviously doing), a lot of people would buy it, and if they made the whole of StarCraft2 as well as an expansion, then even more people would buy both.

Seriously, with an expansion, they've already got the base game to work with, so that's basically saving them the entire development cost of StarCraft2 and will sell approximately the same number of copies as it, not to mention that they can release it soon after, meaning that there's next to no time for technology to escape them, while not taking too long in development, unlike an entirely new game would.

They'd have to be crazy not to make at least one expansion.

 

Blizzards normally tries to keep up to date when it comes to their new releases. If you look at past expansions they've been released within 1-2 years of the original being released (WoW is an exception since blizz didn't think it would be so popular).

Due to this i think they'll only release 1 starcraft II expansion so that they stay on top of new tech. Otherwise they'll fall into the trap Valve has with the half life franchise (outdated engine still being used for new expansions).