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Topic: StarCraft 2 hints dropped

While our meeting with Blizzard Chief Operating Officer Paul Sams today at the German Games Convention mainly focused on The Burning Crusade, the upcoming expansion for World of Warcraft, we did ask him about what the future holds in store for Blizzard, and specifically about StarCraft 2.

"StarCraft is my absolutely favorite game of all time," Sams told us. "As you probably already know, there is no doubt that we will continue the StarCraft and Diablo franchise, and trust me, I will be the happiest person in the world when we announce StarCraft 2."

While Sams wasn't ready to spill the beans just yet, he did say Blizzard "will have a major product announcement in 2007," and that Blizzard was currently working on at least three other unannounced titles at the moment.

In terms of what these games could be, we asked if they would fall in line with the major success Blizzard has had with World of Warcraft. "I want to be clear that we're not just content to be an MMO company," Sams explained. "Some other companies get into the role of making just MMOs, but Blizzard lets the developers pick what they want to work on, and it's not all MMOs."

When asked about StarCraft: Ghost, Sams said that it was on indefinite hold, but that Blizzard wasn't averse to exploring further console development in the future. "We've been up to MS and they've been at our office talking about Vista and 360," Sams said, "and we're certainly excited about some of the tools they have to offer in the console world as well as with Vista and DirectX 10. However, with our own online gaming service, we're going to pick and choose what we want to use; we're going to protect Battle.net and make sure Battle.net ranks supreme."

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Re: StarCraft 2 hints dropped

I wanna see Starcraft MMO.

I really really do. I've already been theorycrafting about how it would work and how Zerg, Marines and Protoss would level up differently (Zerg especially).

And in high levels Marines would go -> Feuderals. and Protoss and Zerg -> Xel'naga hybrids.

It would pwn.

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Re: StarCraft 2 hints dropped

I would personally rather not see any MMOs for a while....though I wish they had come out with a Starcraft MMO instead of a Warcraft one.  Anyway, I would mess myself if they announced SC2.  Diablo 3 would be good too.

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Fuck Diablo.

If they announce SC2 as an MMO, I'll get a hard-on.

If they announce SC2 as an RTS, I'll cream myself!

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I'd rather have a new RTS personally. I don't really think I'd buy another MMO, really.

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Considering that it seems WoW is gonna stay Strong for a while, releasing another MMO would be bad for their business, specially a SC one wich would steal a lot fo players from WoW

Im almost certain it will be a RTS

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Re: StarCraft 2 hints dropped

Originally posted by: EmileVictor


It'd better be as awesome as Starcraft was.

I doubt it, considering they lost almost all the dudes who made the original. And considering how RTS games are evolving into new levels of tactics. We saw that blizzard clearly dropped the ball on strategy when it came to wc3.

I hope it is released, but I won't get my hopes up on it being nearly as good as sc.

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Re: StarCraft 2 hints dropped

I wanna see Starcraft MMO.

I really really do. I've already been theorycrafting about how it would work and how Zerg, Marines and Protoss would level up differently (Zerg especially).

And in high levels Marines would go -> Feuderals. and Protoss and Zerg -> Xel'naga hybrids.

It would pwn.

What, pray-tell, is a feuderal?



Man, I really don't want to see another MMO, and yeah, it really would be a bad idea, as it would steal people from WoW. Also, I kinda missed out on the whole starcraft online playing (never reallly got into for some reason), and I was wondering, how does wc3 represent a dropped ball, compared to SC?

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Hopefully they dont fuck up the micro intense battles there was in SC and turn into a WCIII like game =/

Those who believe SC is a "omg zerg" game are but so mistaken =_=

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D3 > SC2

thx

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Originally posted by: darin
D3 > SC2

thx

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Re: StarCraft 2 hints dropped

I'm guessing the next game is going to be a Starcraft MMO-RTS.
I have no idea what that means or if this genre exists, but I'm sure it'll be the best game to date (well, it better be, after almost 10 years of waiting).

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Re: StarCraft 2 hints dropped

Originally posted by: jordan

Originally posted by: EmileVictor


It'd better be as awesome as Starcraft was.

I doubt it, considering they lost almost all the dudes who made the original. And considering how RTS games are evolving into new levels of tactics. We saw that blizzard clearly dropped the ball on strategy when it came to wc3.

I hope it is released, but I won't get my hopes up on it being nearly as good as sc.

I disagree.. Starcraft was more about tactical combat (i.e reaver drop or muta rush) and game plan rather than a "my unit counters your units" it was "i am going to do this, and if you don't respond well and scout me out you will get owned", not "my spear men deal 150% damage to your horsemen lol".

Warcraft III had far less strategy.. the focus was on micro management, starcraft's type of strategic depth is still unmatched imo...

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muta rush and reaver drops are so outdated and easily counterable.
But yeah WC3 is alot less micro challenging and macro challenging than StarCraft

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Re: StarCraft 2 hints dropped

Originally posted by: Big O

I wanna see Starcraft MMO.

I really really do. I've already been theorycrafting about how it would work and how Zerg, Marines and Protoss would level up differently (Zerg especially).

And in high levels Marines would go -> Feuderals. and Protoss and Zerg -> Xel'naga hybrids.

It would pwn.

What, pray-tell, is a feuderal?

federalists.

poor translation on my part

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Re: StarCraft 2 hints dropped

Originally posted by: BludOund

Originally posted by: jordan

Originally posted by: EmileVictor


It'd better be as awesome as Starcraft was.

I doubt it, considering they lost almost all the dudes who made the original. And considering how RTS games are evolving into new levels of tactics. We saw that blizzard clearly dropped the ball on strategy when it came to wc3.

I hope it is released, but I won't get my hopes up on it being nearly as good as sc.

I disagree.. Starcraft was more about tactical combat (i.e reaver drop or muta rush) and game plan rather than a "my unit counters your units" it was "i am going to do this, and if you don't respond well and scout me out you will get owned", not "my spear men deal 150% damage to your horsemen lol".

Warcraft III had far less strategy.. the focus was on micro management, starcraft's type of strategic depth is still unmatched imo...

Originally posted by: jordan
I doubt it, considering they lost almost all the dudes who made the original. And considering how RTS games are evolving into new levels of tactics.   We saw that blizzard clearly dropped the ball on strategy when it came to wc3.

I hope it is released, but I won't get my hopes up on it being nearly as good as sc.

 

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Originally posted by: Salle

Originally posted by: Big O

I wanna see Starcraft MMO.

I really really do. I've already been theorycrafting about how it would work and how Zerg, Marines and Protoss would level up differently (Zerg especially).

And in high levels Marines would go -> Feuderals. and Protoss and Zerg -> Xel'naga hybrids.

It would pwn.

What, pray-tell, is a feuderal?

federalists.

poor translation on my part

Federalists as in the Terran Confederacy that was destroyed in the original Starcraft...?

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Blizzard will make something up.

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Originally posted by: Salle
Blizzard will make something up.

With TBC as the precedent, I actually wouldn't be surprised... :noway:

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I would like to a 100% brand new title. I like the worlds Blizzard makes and would like to be put in a new one.

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Blizzard was just trying a new style of RTS with WC3.  Whether or not you like it better than a SC style RTS really is a matter of personal choice, regulardless of how popular your opinion is. 

That being said, I like both, though at the time I think I was more in to SC....with about a whole year of my life that was a blur of SC, lol.  I really do like some of the mechanics in Wc3 though....but I suck at the micro and tactics part of RTS games that Wc3 emphasized, and I was pretty good at the macroing and overall strategy part of SC that it emphasized. 

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They don't have enough storyline, and races to make a decent MMORPG yet.

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Originally posted by: Ne0rC
They don't have enough storyline, and races to make a decent MMORPG yet.

I thought SC / SC:BW had tons of storyline. And 3 races is enough imo.

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Originally posted by: darin
D3 > SC2

thx

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