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Blizzcon 2008 Coverage >> $150 to play full Starcraft 2?
Since the announcement that StarCraft II will be shipping as three separate products to be the “StarCraft II Trilogy”, there has been several criticising voices against this, in terms of having to purchase several boxes, and possibly paying $150 (£75) just to get the full game.
StarCraftWire.net had an interview with Chris Sigaty, where he disclosed the details of these statements, and whether or not players will have to get them all to play simple multiplayer with each other. As you can read from the StarCraft Gameplay Panel, the game will ship in three parts:
It seems the decision to divide SC2 into three was discussed last BlizzCon, and got finalised sometime around new year, and now announced at BlizzCon. It will work more or less exactly like expansions, as two were already planned for SC anyway. This means that you will need to have all three boxes if you want to play with other people that have all three, or you can play in “Wings of Liberty Mode”, which only requires that original box. Yes, this does mean that you will have to pay whatever price it would total to (they have not discussed that yet, ofc), in order to play.
There will be about 30 maps per campaign, instead of 8-10 in the original and Brood War, and they will ship like proper stand alone products. Just make sure to note they will be priced as EXPANSIONS, so you will not have to pay $150 to get all the gameplay.The material in each is as big as any expansion, so you’re only paying for what you want to play yourself.
Their response to negative opinions on buying three boxes to get one game is that the project is just so big, and it has more to do with time than money, meaning that they didn’t want to let players wait for an additional year just to get the game. It’s the same deal as two expansions, and people will probably be playing just “Wings of Liberty” as well as the additional content. This is very similar to how StarCraft I and WarCraft III works as well.
Stay tuned for the full interview that will be posted on StarcraftWire.net later on!
Update!
The interview is now available here. Remember to check out all of the other BlizzCon Coverage as well!
Well, you see, SC1 didnt have much time to create buildup, plot and climax for each of thew campaigns. SC2 should have much more to it, more build i should say.
Is that a little clearer? i think i messed up the grammer a little. I think i tried to say
“I find it to be more since there is so much more story, it is like twice as much as SC1.”
Hehe, ok, that makes more sense. Yeah, I agree. I think I’d be happy to pay even $150, but Blizzard have actually said it would be less, like $100 in total…
Yeah thats fine with me, $ 100-150 is reasonable since your not paying it all at once. Once you've played the first game for a long time, you're not going to think twice about buying the next one to stay with the action and keep playing with your friends.
Yeah, especially since they won't come out more than about once per year...
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I find it more to be that since there is so much more it is like twice as much as original SC