StarCraft 2 Released!

[Jason]

[ Announcement ]

It's well past midnight here in California so that means StarCraft II is officially out. It also means it's time for awkward and occasionally pleasant launch day photos (here and here). Or enjoy BlizzCast # 14, which has been conveniently transcribed for the hearing impaired and lazy newsposters.

Kevin Yu:  Definitely. So far, speaking more in detail about those strategies, how do you think those strategies are meshing out in the early, mid, and late stage game for each of the different races? Especially, adding all of the new abilities and units from StarCraft II as well?

Dustin Browder: Well one of the things we learned in the beta, very early obviously, was a lot of rush strategies that we weren't quite prepared for that we thought that we had under control before it went live with the beta. And we found out pretty quickly over the course of seven or eight patches, I think, we were still fixing some of the core rush strategies. And it's always sort of a tough balance for us because we want to make sure that rush strategies are possible, that it is possible to overcome an enemy with a rush, but at the same time we don't want the rushes to be unstoppable. And our sort of core design value is a rush should be as easy to stop as it is to do, and we're still sort of working all of those kinks out. I think in many cases we've improved it quite a bit, I think most of those are under control, but we are trying to keep an open mind as to what may still be out there that we don't know about. And we come up with phase two of the beta and we will watch and see how those rush strategies are sort of continuing to evolve and we'll keep watching those going forward.

If you're wondering where the early reviews are, Ars Technica and IGN said that Blizzard stiffed everyone on the early review copies. Or StarCraft 2 is a fine bourbon that can't be guzzled. Or something.

 

[relootz]

GOTY

[Sovard]

They also have a day one patch which probably aided in their decision to not give out early copies.

[AndhairaX]

Meh. Wake me up when A Game of Thrones: Genesis is out.

[Konjad]

No moneys to buy it i wanna
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[relootz]

[Azrael the cat]

FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really want to get this game, but I'm a multiplayer whore who won't be happy unless I can get into decent ranked matches / Battle-net tournies (note NOT pro tournies - I've never been THAT good at any game - I just mean getting a good ranking so you're playing against folks thinkning about strats rather than cookie-cutter builds and clicks per second.

So if I get that game it is going to be a second job style serious timesink. And my funding grants and requirements basically mean I've got to work like a dog to get a project done by March.

Not going to happen until after then. And by that point 'll be so far behind the curve that catching up in multiplayer is going to be nigh impossible

Yes I am that sad. of me.
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[commie]

[Kraszu]

[entertainer]

lol at starcraft "sportsmen"
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