**** Original Starcraft 2 Thread ****

H2F Scott said:
They probably needed the funding for all the advertising and such it's getting. I can't imagine it was cheap to get an SC2 advert shown at the NBA finals in america.
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Its not like it needed advertising, I imagine that 80% of the people who are buying it will have heard of it and possibly will have known about it for 10 years!

But yeh, I have been suprised to see adverts. Finally a game advert that doesnt say "only available for ps3 and xbox360" in a cheesy american accent.

Dont think I have ever seen an advert for a PC only game... FU console owners!!
 
Voltage said:
im still holding out hope that ill find somewhere next weekend doing for it <£30
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This, I'm not gonna pay 30 quid for it, as much as I want it, especially since its only one part of the game that's been split into 3 to milk everyone... Good ole Activition.
 
LokiS said:
This, I'm not gonna pay 30 quid for it, as much as I want it, especially since its only one part of the game that's been split into 3 to milk everyone... Good ole Activition.
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Blizzard did the same thing with Broodwar. Wings of Liberty by itself has a bigger campaign than Starcraft 1. I don't see the problem. Is it that they announced there would be expansions from the start? Would you not have minded if they announced the expansions at a later date or something? What about all the other games that have expansions, are they milking you too?
 
Guest2 said:
Why couldnt Blizzard Entertainment publish it instead of having Activision rake piles of money in?
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Because they're joint companies now?

On a related note, I guess everyone's pre-ordered the game for £35 and can't find it anywhere cheaper? :(
 
z3r0 said:
Because they're joint companies now?

On a related note, I guess everyone's pre-ordered the game for £35 and can't find it anywhere cheaper? :(
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I imagine it's £35 everywhere at this point, being so close to release.

(havent looked recently though as I preordered a couple months back for £25 ;))
 
I don't get this Activision hate, they are a business, they sell for what they think people are willing to pay, you pay for the game. Plus lets face it, Pc games have been hovering around the £25 pound mark for years (compared to console thats cheap) so they were bound to go up at some point...

But then again £35 for a pc game! They really are having a laugh!

On a starcraft II note, i will be getting it, but not yet, i haven't played through the original in years so i am going to hunt it down and play through it all and BW just to bring it all back. And with my work load it maybe cheaper when i finally get around to it.

Oh and its not like Blizzard is a model for cheapness, what is it, £9 a month * the nerd population == loadsamoney!!!
 
what a great vid, im officially psyched now :D

i liked how the vids on that page explained the story again for me.

i cant remember last week, never mind 12 years ago :o
 
Guest2 said:
Why couldnt Blizzard Entertainment publish it instead of having Activision rake piles of money in?

Whats difficult about sending you an email with a code so you can download the retail client from battle.net?
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Guest2 said:
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So why do Blizzard need Activision to publish the game for them? Surely Blizzard just need to sit back and send out codes to people. Not too hard
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Blizzard is Activision, the actual company is called "Activision Blizzard".
 
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I never played the first game, and i havent played in this beta. I do like my RTS games though..... to buy or not that is the question !
 
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