My Thoughts on the Trilogy

What do you mean content?
I said i will play online

 

The releases contain new units and possibly new features as well. Hence, the releases will only be compatible with each other on the lowest level, that is if player A has WOL and player B has LOTV, then the two people will only be able to play with WOL content.

 

So this means that I have to buy all 3 disks.
Too bad.

 

Not necessarily. They've said, and I think it was mentioned earlier in the thread, that a lot of the new content will be downloadable via a patch so that people won't have to fork out a couple hundred dollars just to play StarCraft2. The second and third release will mainly be for the campaigns.

 

I think making it a triolgy is the best possible way to go about it.

 

that would be weird for blizzard... i mean, the campaing missions (sooner or later) will be available for download as well...
so, the only thing you'll be buying the games for are gonna be the intermissions?

nah, i dont think so XD

 

What makes you think that? Just because they're planning to let people download the new content doesn't mean they'll allow people to download the Zerg and Protoss missions.

 

It's amazing to me that people have a problem spending 20$-30$ more on a game, but will spend that easily on one night's dinner at a restaurant or splurge it on alcohol and other things. This game will last a decade at least. That's more bang for your buck than just about anything else.

 

I think the trilogy for starcraft 2 is a way for Blizzard to earn more money. Those products (yes, there is no more ONE product) are Cash Cows !

I can understand that it is maybe impossible to make such a big game inside ONE DVD.

However what I find good with this trilogy is the fact there will be 30 missions for each campaign. I just hope the missions will be differents, very differents from each other. That we will not just have to "destroy the enemy base".

Plus I don't want to play just ONE faction. In Brood War, for instance, for the Terran campaign we just played with the UED. No, I hope Blizzard will allow us to play with different factions.
Maybe we'll start with the Faction of James Raynor and will have to fight against Arcturus Mengsk and the Zergs, then we'll continue witht he Faction of Arcturus Mengsk who will fight against James Raynor and maybe the Protoss, and maybe there will be a third faction. 10 missions for each faction.

And please Blizzard !!! :

If it would be possible not to be obliged to install everytime all the games to play all the 3 DVDS. I mean that if you set up the 1st DVD (with the Terran) the two others will need this first DVD to be played.
Or maybe it is not rentable for you ?

I don't want to set up the game 3 times ...

 

You're only paying 20$-30$ more when you include inflation... I believe that's more than made up for in the improved features and content of the game along with much greater production values (Which cost more money than a 2D game)

.. looking at it this way, if you call the StarCraft 2 Trilogy a rip-off or cash cow, what're you calling StarCraft?

 

Please, not that again. Starcraft has story with all three races, Starcraft 2 doesn't.

 

What ? Starcraft has no story with the three races ? how so ? Just watch the cinematics and you'll notice there is a storylines.

Starcraft was a wonderful game. Starcraft 2 will be wonderful. But the way Blizzard chose to create a trilogy desippoints me.

I will buy all the three games of course. As I am a fan, I will do so. But I give my point of vue. I dislike this trilogy. Maybe I am wrong, and with the time I will like this ...

 

Reading is your friend.

There never was one product that was split up into three. They haven't removed anything from what will become Wings of Liberty, they just chose not to make more than the Terran campaign, which they aren't finished with yet. They don't feel like adding another 2 or 3 years to the release date so they can have three campaigns, or making each campaign only 10-12 missions long.

That's exactly what they're aiming at, they even said it in an interview. Don't worry about it.

That will never happen. Why would they do that instead of doing 10 missions per race? The whole idea with the trilogy is to make every campaign 30 epic, consistent missions.

 

Please, not this again. I wasn't talking to you, therefore, this isn't included. I agree totally with what you are saying (Although I still believe it is the best of the options by far). The person I was replying to said that StarCraft 2 was a cash cow because it contains two expansions that you "have" to buy instead of one. I told him that including inflation you're only paying 20$-30$ more. My post didn't include this.

Do you see the difference?

 

I responded to this bit, and I did so because you keep coming up with the original Starcraft when Starcraft 2 differs both content-wise and structurally, so you shouldn't compare the two because you might confuse others.

WOL will feel like an incomplete game without the other two products, so they will be slightly more than just expansions because they don't add to a full game like Broodwar does, they complete it. Over a period of two years :wacko:

 

Yes, in some ways and to some people it will definately feel incomplete. That's why I compared THE TRILOGY to StarCraft. I was trying to tell you that. If all three games come out tomorrow (So, that we can compare it in the long run) and you compare the prices together.. Which one is the rip-off or cash cow?

But, still to me, this trilogy will seem many times more complete than StarCraft did. Just because it doesn't have main campaigns included for all races doesn't mean it's incomplete. You're just used to it being another way. I would have been extremely disappointed if they didn't do the trilogy and told us they were considering it. In the long run, it's better, and, still to me, it's also better in the short tern because you get a more in-depth story instead of ten or so missions that branch slightly. That's in no way an improvement over the Enslavers campaigns.. we need to move past this. If they hadn't made it a trilogy, look at the lack of content we would have. It wouldn't have been nearly as good as it could have been and it wouldn't even be an improvement over the Enslavers missions or other post-campaign missions. The original campaign of StarCraft would have had nearly as much branching as StarCraft 2 would have.

What a disappointment that would be!

You've got to take everything into consideration instread of just seeing that there's no Zerg campaign or Protoss main campaign and then assume that it's less complete.. because it's quite the opposite. So, the trilogy to people like you will seem incomplete at first but the non-trilogy would be incomplete forever because I doubt they've got story arcs to cover two expansions in the way of Brood War... and if they did I bet it would suffer because of the time constraints and other things.

 

One notification :

If the Terran campaign comes for, maybe, November 2009, that means the Terran structures and units will be complete. And even all the Protoss and Zerg ones because we'll have to fight and make alliances with them.

So the balance between all three races will have to be FOUND before the release of the first DVD.

And if they take 2 or 3 more years before releasing the 2 other DVDS, that means Blizzard will have to add new units. So each unit right now have maybe some imperfections. Blizzard could finilize them in the other DVDS.

Or maybe Blizzard will chose to finilize them for WOL because in multiplayer the game will be different if we insert the 1st, the 2nd or the 3d DVD.

Can patches fix those differences ?

 

Yes, for the most part. WarCraft III: Reign Of Chaos is a completely different game than WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne even with the most current patch on both versions.

 

If it weren't a trilogy then starcraft 2 would be a hard sell. They leave alot of unanswered questions at the end of broodwar and it would be nice if they added a hybrid zerg/protoss race.

 

I think they will do this way, U can play on b.net with the first, but ´with the others U could have more units and still play with the cheab bastards who only bought the first and now they can only have the units provided with WoL... The others contains more units nd stuff (like an expansion) sp that U would be pissed of (if Ure cheap ) with having to play the other players who brought them all and now have tons of better and cooler units. U would go buy... (perhaps stupid idea... I know )