StarCraft II, Bizzard's highly anticipated sequel to the RTS classic, has apparenly been given a release date for 2008, according to three major retailers. So what's the big day?
December they say? My bet is on February 6th, or at least sometime around there. Its too early to say it won't get pushed back, but too soon to be much more than 2 months late.
Either way, its Blizzard, they will release it when it is awesome.
Arrggghhh Rob Wright, you're evil! Here I thought there might be something to this article! The only race of the 3 that is either very close to being done or is done (most likely the former) is the Protoss. Developers have said that Terran lacked something, and there is a TON of work to be done on the Zerg. After all that takes place, they have to release the beta for at least a month and then make changes after that. I'm pretty convinced to only believe a release date stated specifically by Blizzard, not big-time retail stores. On the other hand, I sure hope they're right - I'm convinced it won't come out until February or March '09, given how much they have left to do. (Or so they claim) The best way I've found to keep up with the progress is sc2armory.com .
Well, we made a note of the release date because all of the major retail chains list is as one. Then again all the retail chains might just be lemmings and when one puts up a date they all do. Either way, Blizzard has said they don't want this game to take more than a decade to come out relative to StarCraft I, so we can only hope it comes out in 2008.
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It was released in March of 1998. If they get particularly close to the 1 decade mark, it wouldn't surprise me if they held on to it until the exact day of the 10 year anniversary.
It was released in March of 1998. If they get particularly close to the 1 decade mark, it wouldn't surprise me if they held on to it until the exact day of the 10 year anniversary.
If Starcraft 1 was released on March 31 1998 and Starcraft 2 was released on March 31 2008 then there will be exactly 1 decade between the launch dates and that would be kind of cool... but I just realized that it would be march of 2009 which will put it well past the decade mark so never mind me.
The "release date" for SC2 has been up on the ebgames/gamestop website forever. Still no official release date or worthwhile information? What a waste of time article
I love their games, and as for me they are number one. Most my bought games are their and they are worth every penny of it. They entertained me for a very long time. Its nice to know they will only release when it is finished, polished, and without major/gamebreaking bugs.
The thing is..... Soon(TM) is a PITA.
PS:Soon is a PITA but i would love that more software houses were like them in this matter. Less games would be made, But you cant compare the 20 hours or so Crysis game of fun, to the 180 days of WoW, endless Diablo sessions, endless SC and SC:BW hours. Or years really.
Edit: RobWright you know any new inside info on Darkfall online ? Is it vaporware ? Any news or something. Thats another gaming in really eager to get my paws on. If he ever comes out ofc.
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