StarCraft II delayed until 2010?

The Beta has to be long enough though so that they can catch as many of the glitches and imbalances as possible before they release the game. Two months probably won't cut it.

 

The more they wait im sure they will be improving the game, but I heard it was because they were taking there time on the Zerg race. Not 100% sure on this however..

 

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Blizzard just likes watching us suffer.

 

i hope they dont pull a "halo movie" thing cause the halo movie shuold have been out last year (they UNcofirmed it) if they do that to sc2 there will be:
*riots
*suicides
*less blizz products bought(not realy)

 

I have a feeling project CWAL-2 will be founded anytime soon...

 

I don't see the beta having a huge impact on the release. You can be pretty damn sure the multiplayer is well balanced considering buildings and units have been finalized (The only good thing to come from the BS team liquid NDA)... beta is just gonna open the door for more people to find obscure imba.

Even if the game isn't 100% balanced, which it probably never will be, Blizz can patch minor issues. I'm getting a bit sick of all the fanboys saying they don't mind waiting longer because that just means Blizzard is taking more time to tweak the balance. Don't be ****ing stupid, open your patch logs from SC1. SC2 is not going to be perfectly balanced on day 1 or day 500. It's gonna be real close...but it already is. Beta will not add much more to the thousands of in house tests.

Single player is going to be what's holding up the release. You can't really add voice work, final missions, and general art via a patch. That's an unfinished game. Mutas needing to be nerfed a little is a finished game...if you disagree I hope you haven't bought a copy of SC prior to 2 years ago...it wasn't done at that point.

 

While you are correct that it won't be perfectly balanced on day one, the beta is primarily for balance. Blizzard needs to test the game with more people than just company employees. The whole point is to try to find and fix as many glitches and imbalances as possible before they release the game. Yeah there will still probably be a significant amount left (e.g. original Starcraft patches), but if they rush the beta or don't employ enough testers the game will be full of glitches and won't even be close to balanced (i.e. it'll suck).

Don't forget also, they have been spending most of this time designing the game, creating single-player, creating mechanics, and fine-tuning the races. However, other than obvious imbalances (e.g. Mothership's old Black Hole), Blizzard isn't actually focusing on the balance. This is what the beta is for.

So BloodHawk, single-player is not what is going to hold up the release. When the beta starts, the number of glitches found and balance work will be what holds up the release. Then, the game will get to a point where they've fixed everything that they can see and release it. And after that, there will probably still be more to fix because it's really hard to find everything with the limited number of people who get to play the beta.

In summary, the game states are:

1) Alpha - unfinished game
2) pre-Beta - nearly finished game
3) Beta - finished game, but with glitches and imbalances that weren't found during design process
4) Released game - finished game with many glitches and imbalances fixed, but still a few
5) Polished game - many patches later

The original Starcraft is on #5, Starcraft II should be arriving at #3 any day now. But there still could be some time between #3 and #4.

 

im sure if it is delayed it wont be nearly as bad as when nintendo delayed the release of twilight princess constantly. if your a zelda fan and lived through that then you can live through any type of delay for any game. + the delays im sure are all for the best.

 

they can take as long as they need as long as they get a damn demo out that could hold us off but if they think they can jsut hold it off another 7 months there are going to be some very unhappy fans

 

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Worst case scenario. They pull an SC:Ghost on us.

 

At that point, I think Blizzard will have lost half of its fan base

 

Mark my words. Blizzcon next month. We will know everything, then. Just wait.

 

But thats too far away :O. This years blizzcon should focus on diablo 3 as everyone will be playing the SC2 beta already ... i hope!

 

Irony of ironies: D3 will be released before SC2.

 

or... D3 IS starcraft 2!!!! the xel'naga are actually the horadrim!

 

Blizzard took too many time for this game. So 6 more months you know .... But the game'd better be balanced, not like SC1 was in the past. I don't want to take 10 hours to download one patch, so if there is one patch per month, make the calculation, it will be a severe loss of time for me.

The guys would better take their time again.

 

What the hell, man? Are you on a 14.4 kbps modem or something? I've downloaded patches from v1.0 to v1.14 or so on a 56K modem and it didn't take any where near 10 minutes (more like two or three minutes) and that's hardly worth complaining about. Hell, on my 8MB connection, I download WoW patches that are 800MB+ in less than ten minutes and that's through torrenting which has the potential to be annoyingly slow even after you give it a grace period of a few minutes to find peers.

Still, Blizzard has never released patches that often and I doubt they'll start now.

Instead of worrying about downloading patches, I think you should worry about playing the actual game on a slow connection like that.

 

No one has mentioned this. Maybe I'm missing something here, but what about the fact that Blizzard is implementing a new battle.net service with new features. Granted I'm sure they have been able to do some testing of this system in house, but a portion of the multiplayer beta test is to ensure battle.net works properly and supports the number of players logged on and searching for games. I'm guessing it will go without a hitch, but if there is a serious problem they won't know about it until the beta starts and could take time to resolve (again not that I think this is going to happen).

 

I agree with this and also I think its due mostly to battle net and a couple internal things more than anything else I dout balance is what is keeping it from comeing out .

As for D3 getting released befor starcraft 2 I highly dout that.

 

They can't. That's unthinkable. If they did there would literally be rioting and bodies in the streets. I can't even begin to imagine what would happen in south korea if they were told SC2 was cancelled.

Anyway I have always expected that it wouldn't be out until ( just my prediction) holiday 2010 at the earliest. But it's already been over a decade so what's another year or two.