Why was the game so late in coming?

I was told that starcraft2 was late in coming out due to blizzard being sued by games workshop for similarities between the terran marine and the space marine race in warhammer40K. Is this genuine information???? If you have any info please post a reply.

 

I don't know if that's true or not, but it seems very unlikely.

 

I also doubt it

 

Yes, that doesn't sound like how it happened.

I think they just got caught up with making World of warcraft so they put starcraft development aside. And then they thought "shit, it's going to be 10 years soon, let's release it!" so they did.

But they kept it secret very well!!!

 

There are several factors contributing the late coming

- The game is still very popular, espeically in South Korea, and Blizzard is still making money from SC1
- Many of the staff that worked on SC1 left the company, they had difficulties finding new capable staff to work on SC2
- Blizzard vows to make every game "perfect"
- Starcraft 1 is already considered "perfect", hence it's hard to make SC2 even better. Blizzard doesn't want to dissapoint fans if they shall fail to make SC2 better.
- They were involved in the Warcraft series and did not have time for SC series

 

Nice points made there mc2. All are valid! My answer was the short version ;D

 

mc2 has it down. In the round table discussion, this question was asked, and that was pretty much their exact answer.

I did hear somewhere that Blizzard had originally wanted to make a Warhammer 40k game, but Games Workshop wouldn't let them, so they just went with a bunch of the basic ideas and made StarCraft. I don't think they were ever sued over it though.

 

Thanks for all the info.

 

Well Warcraft is pretty much a Warhammer ripoff as it is so no real suprise there. Besides, SC is weirdly similar to WH40k ...

 

haha well... at least blizzard thought of bringing those "similar" models of warhammer and W40k to life to a pc game before they have ;D

 

mmmmm.... i dont know sounds kinda credible to me, I mean if u owned a big company and thought someone was trying to steal one of your more succesful models wouldn't you do something about it???? mc2 u seem to know what ur on about and given your standing in the group you might know who to ask are you or anybody else saying that this definatly didnt happen or are u just speculating?

 

games workshop couldnt have sued blizzard becuase the idea of an army of insects (zerg/tyranids) was around way way before either company existed, same goes for an army of advanced humans with bulky armour and starships(spacemarines/terran). Protoss(elder) are just elves in space (uber psychic powers and mystical technology, highly spiritual.

 

Exactly, none of them have creative copyrights on any of the concepts, only on the actual names of the factions. And Blizzard made a lot of complex backstory for all three of the races, from their beginnings to the present. I doubt that W40K has similar origins for their factions so their similarity in looks is all they've got.

 

I heard that to. I the Starcraft 1 engine was suppost to be a Warhammer 40k game. Terran marines were suppost to be space marines, but since it is an old game, you couldent tell, they then changed the units face to make it uncopy righted. I think protoss was also suppost to be Eldar, then zerg was just a race they added after they decided it would be Starcraft.

 

zerg would be tyranids ...

 

Most likely.

 

I've never actually played any W40K games. Are they worth trying before Sc2 comes out?

 

If you ask me War40k's Space Marines look a lot like Storm Troopers, but just a lot buffer.

And eh, War40k is an alright game IMO. It'd be worth checking out if you really like RTS'.

 

The Dawn of War game is more than alright! The engine is alsome, and hundreds of deferent deaths and fighting tricks!

 

Did you see any interesting things in Dawn of War taht you'd be happy is Blizzard ripped off? ;D