StarCraft 2 Beta mentioned in Q4 Financial Report

SC2 has been in production since like 2004 (earlier if not), and been anticipated for 10 years.
You call that a rush?

 

I think he means the people are rushing Blizzard instead of Blizzard rushing the game ... and I agree. I don't want the game to ship until it's absolutely perfect in everything except for balance since there's no way it could be perfect in balance without years of testing. I felt even more strongly about this before it was announced that StarCraft 2 was a trilogy but I still feel pretty much the same way. Basically, what I'm saying is that Blizzard gets a limited amount of time to perfect this game and then that's it. It has to last us for another ten years or longer. What is a few more months when it could mean less enjoyment over many, many years?

 

I WANT STARCRAFT II!

And I hope they will make Starcraft Online eventually. Remember the 2004 April Fool's Joke?

hehe ME WANT IN BETA!
Wonder how good blizzard security system is?

 

Hahaha! Speaking of StarCraft Online / World Of StarCraft / StarCraft Galaxy-Universe / Whatever .. Did anyone see that interview (might have been a BlizzCast) where one of the designers on StarCraft 2 answered a question asking about if it was possible they would make a StarCraft MMO. He said it was possible but they would only do that after the StarCraft 2 trilogy was finished so "eventually" could very well be 2018-2020 since it took them about 5 years to release World Of WarCraft and that's an easier, less time-consuming engine to design for (obviously) since the new engine must be more advanced.

So, unless the unannounced MMO is the StarCraft MMO then you could be waiting an awfully long time for that To clarify, it's unlikely that that's what the unannounced MMO is since it's been said to be an entirely new IP. I'm pretty happy about that since they won't destroy the lore for Diablo and StarCraft like they did in some ways with WarCraft.

I'm pretty sure this was a BlizzCast but just in case I'll do some Google runs and see if I can get a link.

 

I know. The facts I stated were meant as justifications for us wanting the game atm (looking back I see how it can be misinterpeted. Should perhaps have worded myself better). We aren't exactly rushing the game, it's been in production for far longer than any common RTS. And yes, I know SC2 isn't any common RTS. Thing is, as part of not being any common RTS SC2 will have a serious beta (removing big and small imbalances), get patch after patch for years to come (removing really small imbalances), as well as get two expansions (replacing/adding abilities/units), so I am not that worried about how Wings of Liberty 1.0 will turn out.

 

There are many features and ideas that need to be implemented before the beta or the patches come out. The beta and the patches are mostly meant to change balance; not to change anything major.

 

awesome... but its not really a surprise.

 

All i know is if they delay it till 2010 i'll be pissed right off. even late 2009 is kinda weak on blizzards part. they announced the dam game 3 ****ing years ago and were probabbly working on the game a year or longer befor that. so your saying they have had at least 4 and half years to create and produce a game thats only just getting into BETA! if its not 2009 it would be extreamly surprizing and upsetting. just makes you wonder if blizzard employee's are sitting on their ass with their thumb up their butts smokin dope. lol


I LOVE GRANDMA'S BOY!!!!

 

Yeah, Blizzard's just lazy and they're not trying hard at all to get us this game.

 

Uh yeah, no **** Blizz announced dates in the past that didn't come to fruition. You can open any Blizz game CD case from that era (10 years ago) that says (insert game here *cough* D2) will ship at (insert date here). And it didn't. That was a decade ago when Blizz was still a fringe PC game company.

Open a BW case and you can still see a Warcarft Adventures release date. What's the last time you saw Blizz say SC ghost was gonna come out "this day"? How many years ago? How many years before WoW made them a true power house?

Had you followed the WoW development you would notice that a release date had not been announced until at least a year after the testing of inhouse development. No hints. No speculated release dates. WoW is the first blizz game that had the now common phrase "It's ready when it's ready" attached to it. They gave details and a date when they really thought launch was near. And guess what, they hit that date.

Blizz is big, they know this. Blizz takes time, they know this. They have said multiplayer is "about" done. You can take that as either a beta is 10 months away. Or if you look at the company over it's growth over the past 10 years; SC1 balancing is about done for a comercial release. That game still gets patched and is "about" done as far as multiplayer balancing is concerned.

Anyone who thought beta is over a year (or even half a year which could still be a few months) away in my book is either uninformed or retarded. I do not apologize. Look at their releases on any game they've done in the recent past. If they say they are "about" done with multiplayer you can trust them! The age of luring consumers with fake dates is over for Blizz.


I have been expecting beta in early 09. And agian I pose the question, did anyone think it would take longer based on current info?

LOL Blizz puts polls on graphic design of the DTs prior to thinking out what damage they deal or any other balance issue? You'd gotta be ****ting me. They said beta is near before. So it is near. What doubt could you have?

 

What the hell? I'm sorry I offended you but I honestly don't know where any of this came from (I'm retarded? What?). I agreed with everything you said in your last post but still you flame me? Talk about retarded .... I'll clarify for you since you somehow misunderstood, I've always thought the beta was very close (around April?). You can check my other posts just to see how confident in this I have been. I have never said anything different. I have never said they weren't close to being done or that I didn't believe them in how far they have come. I was just correcting your false statement that said Blizzard had been (completey) done with multiplayer for a few months now which is blatantly false since they're still changing many things around. I don't see how you could've gotten anything else from my posts.

Furthermore, all I said was that the beta could take longer than usual because of various possible problems that could happen. Blizzard could feel that everything was done and then they go into beta and the community feels that it's a disappointment or not a worthy successor to StarCraft... or, really, anything could happen. The only difference between me and you is that I allow for that possibility; you seem not to. A wise Blizzard fan always takes that possibility into consideration, and I am wise(r). Also, since there are certain things that can't be done with patches or in a beta, if there are significant problems, they may have to go back into development for a few months or prolong the beta.

Now, again, I'll restate what I've said to make sure you got it this time and to quell future "arguments" arising from your own error. I never once said that the beta wouldn't begin sometime soon. I only said the beta could last longer than any of us expects because of unforeseeable problems. Done. Ended. Over. Got it? Okay.

The rest of your post is just blind assumptions. That whole "Had you followed the WoW development you would notice" was pure fail which landed you flat on your face. Congrats. So, I'm going to either assume you just didn't understand what I said or you were so blinded by your own angry, fiery passion that you couldn't see the point in my posts. Neither of which warrant correcting so I'll just say "reread" and be done with it.

In closing, I'm sorry I somehow upset you but that's no reason to fly off the handle because of your own error. All of your problems with what I said come from your own misinterpretation. Meditate on that.


... what a terrible post I just replied to I can't believe I wasted my time in such a manner ...

 

So putting in something that people would want is bad?

Flaming Blizzard's decision to add lore to the DT by allowing different clan models?

Over 60% (+1300 votes) voted for both being included, so I don't see this as a waste of time for Blizzard. In comparison to the forums, onlt 50%(12 votes) voted for the new queen image design I did for the forum shop, so in that sence, it was more a waste of time for me to create the images than for Blizzard to work on multiple models.

And who's to say that Blizzard wasn't working on the DT's balance at the same time as working on unit models?

 

bloodhawk ruins everything u ruined the moment of us finding out beta was near

 

Few months as of December, or as of now?

 

Either way, they mean pretty much the same thing.