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

They may try to keep up to date with their new releases, but they'd be insane not to know the value of their old features. There are still hardcore StarCraft1 players now, and it's been ten years since it was released, not to mention that World of WarCraft's graphics, etc, is really outdated right now, so they're obviously not overly concerned about staying on top of new tech. If they were, they'd have made StarCraft2 a long time ago. That said, they could easily release a couple of expansions well into the upcoming years. There's so much more they can do with this system, and they're guaranteed a near-record number of sales with relatively small development costs, etc. I don't see how a second expansion can be ruled out.

 

@ItzaHexGor: I agree COMPLETELY. So many games, in my opinion, have been ruined because they set up some great villain or some great mystery that was seen, and due to the limitations of the system or just programming/animating the greatness of whatever was revealed was slightly destroyed.

However, I do want to get to know a lot more about the Xel'Naga, though, and, who knows, maybe Blizzard can pull the "revelation" off well enough that were still think of the Xel'Naga as enigmatic.

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Also, I'm 100% sure they will make an expansion. Their history almost proves this, and it has even been assumed in interviews (For example, a developer mighty say: We won't do that this time around but maybe in the expansion.)

Maybe, they'll keep the side campaigns going much longer than they did with StarCraft (1). I just want as many official campaigns as I can get my hands on. If they don't want to waste an expansion pack on that then maybe they could sell it as an eGame or, better yet, distribute it for free.

 

I voted no.

Well some of my friends were saying SC 2 would be cool with 5 races. Xelnaga and the SC 1 bonus mission hybrid being the 5th. Awesome ideas in theory. But for all the reasons above I'm against it. The 3 is enough. And about expansion packs. I think people power have a part to play also. If the game has a large fan base and the devs aren't ready for a sequel but still want to or need to make some cash from the game they'll make an expansion pack for it. it's all financial to me. Only the most popular games have expansion packs.

To this end I'll say maybe 1 pack for SC 2.

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And something off topic. I'd love a hybrid reference in SC 2. Something at all. Cause they so interested me in SC 1. Well their mention.

 

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Some people compares Wow expansions with SC and W3 expansions.... what the hell? It's an MMO, it almost became standard, WoW, Everquest1 & 2, Final Fantasy 11, and to be extremist Guild Wars, they all have bundles of Expansions. You can't just compare with Single player game with multiplayer capability whit MMOs. Everyone that mentionned '' most games got 1 expension, execption of WoW '' should not need to mention this game since it has no reason to be in your mind when talking about Strategy game expensions in the first place.

God I hate World of Warcraft for what it has become.
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I would agree with one expansion, seems to have been standard with exception of W2 that had 2 (if I remembered correctly) D1 & 2, SC, W3, W2 all had one, and it was just good enought. Single player had bonus gameplay and multiplayer got new units/characters to devellop. Althought I have a bad feeling that Blizzard will take it for granted and that SC2 main story will end on a cliffhanger, pretty much like Pirates of the carabean 2 did.

Starcraft (vanilla) actually ended it's own story

Spoiler

invasion of Aiur.

BroodWar ended it's own story,

Spoiler

resurection of the Swarm under Kerrigan,

but with a small Cliffhanger to give them room for a second game

Spoiler

Hybrids.

They seem to be giving a great deal more about lore in the SC, which will most probably translate in a lot more content in SC2 (yay). With more content we might face a game that has no end on itself and will need a expansion to conclude. : / More waiting : (

If Blizzard keeps up with it's old pattern we might be lucky and have a complete game which should... *will be awesome.

 

Spoiler

these would help in your post, i think

just put the word Spoiler in the brackets.

 

Well I'm pretty sure people on this forum did know all about this already

But thanks alot, I'm just a Forum newbie ^^

 

@ VodkaChill. So.... You're hating World of WarCraft for other people relating it to RTS's? Yeah. That's rational.

The news of a Blizzard considering a fourth race for the/an expansion has seriously pissed me off. It's not like WarCraft1 or WarCraft2 where they only had two, near-identical races, as they've got three of the most diverse and different races in existence.

Out of the current theories, there's the UED, the Hybrids and the Xel'Naga.

With the UED, they'd be far to similar to the Terran. They'd practically be the same except for being a few models or vehicles different. The point, there'd be no diversity and they'd encroach on the Terran's development.

With the Hybrids, well, I've always though of the Hybrids as being a specific creature, not an entire or pseudo race. Given how powerful they're supposed to be, a race like this would offset the Protoss' 'few but strong' mentality. Overall, I'd assumed that these would either be a part of either the Zerg, Terran or Protoss, or just something that all the races are fighting to control or destroy. Most likely I'd assumed they'd end up being part of Zerg, what with them being half Zerg in the first place, and other easily identifiable traits like their heightened evolutionary rate, response to the will of the swarm, possible ability to 'assimilate' its Protoss counterpart, etc. To me, the Hybrids are looking to be just like the Dark Templar before Brood War.

About the Xel'Naga, I've already talked about them in this thread. They're far too unknown and enigmatic to turn into an equal and playable race. It'd destroy their whole shroud if they were.

 

I hope so. So long as they can keep people interested in the game, then they can make as many expansions as they want. It is a good idea to do this with WoW because they have about 11 million people playing. Why not give people more goodness if they want it? That is why they make more games in the first place.

I'm not sure how likely it is that it will happen, but I selected "yes" anyway.

 

The hatred started from somewhere else. Seeing it mentioned here just made me aware how people are even more scared with that game than I previously thought. But you need to agree that it does not have its place in this thread.

 

That's not what I was commenting on. You were commenting on the irrelevance of people talking about World of WarCraft expansions, right? Because it's a completely different game and can't be compared to StarCraft2, correct? Then you just randomly blurt out that you hate it, which had absolutely nothing to do with what you were saying.

Basically, you're saying you hate the game because of what other people are doing, which makes no sense whatsoever.

 

Its just not blizz's style. They put out a game and then do one expiation.

 

like they did for WoW?

 

WoW's a MMORPG.. i don't feel like getting into the difference But, there is a difference.

 

People seem to forget that starcraft had 3 official expansions. Though two of them were simply added campaigns, they were nonetheless official expansions.

 

Official, but not created by Blizzard and also nowhere near Blizzard's quality. Why did they put their tag on it... mystery to me.

 

They were by NO means official by ANY stretch of the word.. I think what you meant to say was authorized. Official would have meant that they were made by Blizzard. By the way, I own both expansions since when I bought them in a craze awaiting Brood War

 

i think you are reffering to brood war, enslavers and insurrection?

well, brood war and enslavers were both official and by blizzard, but i dont know about insurrection

 

No... I'm referring to ...

StarCraft: Insurrection

http://www.amazon.com/Insurrection-..._1_1?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1220381233&sr=8-1

And ...

StarCraft: Redemption which I have but cannot find any sellers on the internet.

Both of which are retail add-ons (Comes in boxes, and are bought in stores.) for the campaign, but they are no where near the quality of free fan community campaigns.

 

You can download both from some pirate bay, but it's not even worth getting illegaly .... for free. It's not even worth your bandwidth to be used/touched by this product.

 

Meh.. It's not that bad .. But, if you paid for them then I feel sorry for you

They are about the quality of the Enslavers campaigns.