To be fair, that was like a year or two after warII came out. It was a simpler time.
It used crappy animation for the cutscenes. They eventually used the young chief idea in Warcraft 3 and nixed the hand drawn shit for multimillion dollar CGI.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAzYS-aAnuE
That's one time more than any pirate ever had to deal with, and the only purpose is to make the game harder to resell. Even stupider because I'm guessing Blizzard games are among the least resold mainstream titles. And then, of course, there is the question of missing LAN.I love the amount of fud in this thread. It's just a one time activation.
That's one time more than any pirate ever had to deal with, and the only purpose is to make the game harder to resell. Even stupider because I'm guessing Blizzard games are among the least resold mainstream titles. And then, of course, there is the question of missing LAN.
I didn't quite follow everything but I heard, that this first release only contains terran SP missions, the second zerg and then toss (or vice versa). Is this still true? then the game will be 3x60$ if you want all of it?
Anway, SC2 is by far the most expensive game. about 73$ here in webshops.
Gonna wait few weeks, finish soem other games first.
That's one time more than any pirate ever had to deal with, and the only purpose is to make the game harder to resell. Even stupider because I'm guessing Blizzard games are among the least resold mainstream titles. And then, of course, there is the question of missing LAN.
So....
Sign up for a new e-mail address.
Sign up for a new battle.net account.
Add Starcraft II to your shiny new, empty, Battle.net account.
Enjoy game.
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Get bored of game.
Sell account.
You don't even need to deal with RealID.
Or am I missing something?
MMO's are only easy profit if they are good MMO's. A crappy MMO that bombs will cost a company money but as we know, Blizzard hasn't had a flop ever AFAIK.
Where have you been - hiding in a fallout shelter?
There is the original game (Terran only for single player, all races for MP) plus two expansions, Heart of the Swarm (zerg single player, expansions for MP), and Legacy of the Void (protoss single player, expansions for MP).
No word on the pricing of the expansions, but my guess would be close to full price. Activision knows it has a golden goose.
That would require effort and thinking....it's easier to whine about it
thx for the info. As expected. maybe buy the original game and pirate the expansions, so I don't really like that (not on legal, morale level rather on virus/trojan level )
even if expansiosn are like 20$, total cost will still be very high considering you need all of them for a "real SC2". Wanted to buy it but cause I played sc1 quite a lot and still did unregularly up to now. But with this whole "we want to squezze every penny out of you" -makeup, I'm getting doubts.
Each installment is equal in length to the original starcraft campaign. You will be getting the same single player value out of each game. If all you care about is multiplayer then cost of ownership will only be slightly higher than the original starcraft since there will be 2 expansions instead of 1. I personally see it as I'm getting extra content, sure I have to pay for it, but I'd rather that than get just 2 releases and waiting another 10 years for more.
Stupid question guys, but is SC2 cd-key permanently tied to your B.net account? What if one day you want to sell it?
I love the amount of fud in this thread. It's just a one time activation.
So, you're saying that I'll have to activate the game online one time, and then I can play the entire sp campaign with no internet connection whatsoever? If that's true, then that's frustrating, but not enough to keep me from buying the game. However, I don't buy games that require an internet connection for sp.
So, those "lots and lots of features" that you'd be giving up by playing in offline mode are completely limited to achievements being tracked? Something just doesn't add up here.You don't technically have to (login), but you'll want to. You can play in offline mode if you want - I just don't think you're going to want to. You'll be giving up lots and lots of features, and why would you want to be giving up features?
Crack is already out this morning, just use it
Crack for the official retail game?
Thats awesome. Less than 12 hours. I wonder if its a record.
If you haven't been following SC2, it makes most of the entitled pirating pc gaming crew upset.
I went back and read this afore-mentioned link, in which Rob Pardo, Blizzard vice president of game design, states:
So, those "lots and lots of features" that you'd be giving up by playing in offline mode are completely limited to achievements being tracked? Something just doesn't add up here.
I couldn't find any official Blizzard FAQs on what's being given up by using offline mode, so if anyone has a link that specifically explains what Rob Pardo referred to as "lots and lots of features," I'd appreciate a link.
the other ones are the stupid shit like chatting with friends not in game and other related social networking wannabe crap.
Crack is already out this morning, just use it
And yet all I've seen, poking around various torrent sites, are a few people claiming--after bending backwards to apply purported "cracks"--that they managed to play a mission or two before the game stopped working, or that Blizzard's StarCraft II updater "patched" the game and nullified the workaround.