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Blizzard's StarCraft II Beta is Delayed

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A recent interview conducted during a Russian games convention reveals that the beta will be delaed.

Wondering what the heck happened to those StarCraft II beta invites? After all, it's late 2009 as Blizzard originally promised, and so far there's no word about its impending release. Unfortunately, it doesn't look as if the beta will make an appearance in 2009 after all according to Blizzard producer Chris Sigaty.

In a recent interview with Russian website Goha.ru held during the three-day games expo IgroMir, Sigaty said that the beta won't make an appearance until 2010, and then refused to mention any additional info, saying that Blizzard isn't discussing dates. In fact, the remaining portion of the interview regurgitated common StarCraft II knowledge stemming from BlizCon 2009: offline play is possible but no achievements will be acquired, etc.

Based on VG247's November 5 article, Blizzard plans to release the first StarCraft II installment during Q2 2010, backing up the company's "first half of 2010" comment made during Blizzard's Q3 financial call to investors. But with the beta now knocked back into 2010, it's possible that the game may be smacked back a few extra months on the calendar too, making it a Q3 release instead. Hopefully that's not the case.

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    doomtomb , November 9, 2009 6:28 PM
    NO WAY!!! Delayed really??? (sarcasm)
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    gekko668 , November 9, 2009 6:31 PM
    I'm not surprised anymore.
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    bfstev , November 9, 2009 6:37 PM
    I'll get this right after I pick up duke nukem forever. Cant wait!
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    ssalim , November 9, 2009 6:28 PM
    Of course, they always do that -- but the final product is flawless!
  • 24 Hide
    doomtomb , November 9, 2009 6:28 PM
    NO WAY!!! Delayed really??? (sarcasm)
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    IronRyan21 , November 9, 2009 6:28 PM
    FFS, I just cringe when I see another Starcraft 2 headline on toms.......
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    XD_dued , November 9, 2009 6:28 PM
    Wasn't the beta supposed to be at the end of summer? At this point I don't even keep track of the release date of this and d3 lol
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    gekko668 , November 9, 2009 6:31 PM
    I'm not surprised anymore.
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    pooflinger1 , November 9, 2009 6:31 PM
    Perhaps they just intend to have the beat period be smaller....

    Think about it. Beta's are like appetizers... They just want to give you enough so that you are starving by the time the main course comes around. If the appetizer is too large, then you are less hungry when it comes time for the main course.

    Blizzard lives off of hype and rumors. Do they make great games. Yes. But they also aren't known for releasing a ton of info.
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    aznriptide859 , November 9, 2009 6:32 PM
    No surprise here. Watch SCII never get released XD.
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    ArgleBargle , November 9, 2009 6:34 PM
    @aznriptide859: I've predicted it to be vaporware for a long time now.
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    bfstev , November 9, 2009 6:37 PM
    I'll get this right after I pick up duke nukem forever. Cant wait!
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    ominous prime , November 9, 2009 6:44 PM
    I'm unsurprised, hopefully we'll see a release before 2012, I want to play this while the world ends.
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    anamaniac , November 9, 2009 6:46 PM
    Well, I hope that wit all these delays and the such, they're continually improving the graphics.They originally may have had a 2GHz C2D and a 3870 in mind, but now more people will have a GTX 3xx or a 5890 2GB etc. and a 6 core 12 thread Gulftown.

    However Blizzard, just hire a couple hundred more people and fucking finish it already. You can't tell me a company with over 10 million addicts shelling $15 a month can't properly fund this game.
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    deadlockedworld , November 9, 2009 6:46 PM
    This is like the 10th time they have delayed.

    The only thing they could do to make this worse? -add random matchmaking like modern warfare.
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    cekasone , November 9, 2009 6:48 PM
    This game is never going to come out. Stop teasing us with beta releases.
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    Anonymous , November 9, 2009 6:48 PM
    Blizzard's "micro" is fail!
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    El_Capitan , November 9, 2009 6:52 PM
    Might have to boycott StarCraft II. They're probably having problems how to handle the multi-player aspects of releasing StarCraft II as a Trilogy. Currently, if you want to play the campaign as the Zerg or Protoss, you'll need to get the 2nd and 3rd game. Pricing will probably be set at $60 per game, too.

    * Terrans - Wings of Liberty
    * Zerg - Heart of the Swarm
    * Protoss - Legacy of the Void

    It would be funny if you only had the Terrans set, you could only play multiplayer as the Terrans, etc. I'm sure that's how they're going to do it.

    Imagine if we all buy into this crap. Diablo III as a 5-game set, one $60 game for each playable character.

    Honestly, we need to boycott this nonsense now.
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    DeadCat , November 9, 2009 6:56 PM
    Who cares! Were is my LAN support?!
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    erdinger , November 9, 2009 6:56 PM
    @El_Capitan

    You will be able to play all races online from the first game on!
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    El_Capitan , November 9, 2009 6:57 PM
    @erdinger

    Where'd you read that?
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    rockstone1 , November 9, 2009 7:00 PM
    delaed? Spell check!
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    hannibal , November 9, 2009 7:00 PM
    They have been a company that release something when it's ready... it can take time, but their succes prosent have been exeptionally high so far, not counting the release accurasy :-)
    The game guality counts and let's see how they manage this title. The rumours has not been so good as normally, though...
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