Blizzard's StarCraft II Beta is Delayed
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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Of course, they always do that -- but the final product is flawless!
NO WAY!!! Delayed really??? (sarcasm)
FFS, I just cringe when I see another Starcraft 2 headline on toms.......
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
I'm not surprised anymore.
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.
No surprise here. Watch SCII never get released XD.
@aznriptide859: I've predicted it to be vaporware for a long time now.
I'll get this right after I pick up duke nukem forever. Cant wait!
I'm unsurprised, hopefully we'll see a release before 2012, I want to play this while the world ends.
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.
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.
This game is never going to come out. Stop teasing us with beta releases.
Blizzard's "micro" is fail!
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.
Who cares! Were is my LAN support?!
@El_Capitan
You will be able to play all races online from the first game on!
@erdinger
Where'd you read that?
delaed? Spell check!
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...
i figured since the original came 10+ years ago they could have made the sequel by now. i know they want to make it perfect or whatever but he original wasn't perfect till it had several updates. And it's not like when they finally release it it's really going to be perfect people will find ways to make one race better then an update will come out anyways
Starcraft 2 coming soon in 2020!
Activision | Blizzard was the worst merger ever... now we get screwed on both RTS and FPS!
star craft 2: forever. Blizzard is turning into valve and I don't like it, give me my half life 2 episode 3 damn it!
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 VoidIt 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.
The next bit of nonsense to boycott is the way blizzard makes you pay for a game *after* you buy it. From what I've heard (merely though the grape-vine, no source so far) you will have to pay to use Battle.net
yawn
you cant compare sc 2 to half life ep 3..... sc 2 is like... 10 years in the making.
This is so disappointing. I've been playing Broodwar for the past couple months everyday patiently waiting for the beta to roll out.
I hope this is just some cruel troll attempting to make people mad @ blizzard.
It is Blizzard after all, and no one should be surprised.
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.
Warcraft 3 had matchmaking (Horrible though, first game I was paired up against someone who was "Level 12"). Of course you still had a custom games list, so it's not bad.
The next bit of nonsense to boycott is the way blizzard makes you pay for a game *after* you buy it. From what I've heard (merely though the grape-vine, no source so far) you will have to pay to use Battle.net
I actually wouldn't be surprised. If there's people willing to pay, they'll play. If there's people willing not to pay but still play, people out there will find a way.
I'm saving up my money to start my own gaming company (probably 3-5 years down the road), and a concept that I have is releasing a full single player version for free, but you have to pay a one-time fee to play online ($40), which you'll get LAN or Dedicated server support (if necessary), multiplayer, a modding repository, access to tournaments, rankings, etc.
If anyone's played StarCraft back in the day (or if they still do now, lol), there was more fun playing mods than the single-player campaign, and often better storylines, too (except no CGI cutscenes).
Charging twice, now that's a rip-off. Pay either for the game, or the online access, but not both (unless it's a little for each, but then, why even bother?).
lol they are to buisy trying to squeeze more money out of the WoW crowd.
This whole mystique and misconception that they take there time to get out quality is nonesense.
I remember In WoW Beta which i was a part of early on that hero classes where promised to be in on release. 3 years later you have only one, The Death Kinight and like one or two. Blizzerd is becomming a joke.
Anyone remember Starcraft Ghost?