Can’t say i’m not upset myself about how things have been lately but I do understand where they’re coming from.

To me, Blizzard being transparent means giving out gameplay information and taking into consideration the community’s feedback. I define “information” as something that brings out meaningful discussion within the community. This is without question what they had been doing up until the first battle report. After which the community’s focus greatly turned towards the beta, and many people stopped discussing gameplay and balance because for the doing so was irrelevant until we could actually play. IMO we’ve moved past the level of content Blizzard is giving us. This is not a good thing, but it did happen.

P.S. The CAPTCHA system for registering is painfully bad.

What we get for the 11th anniversary is -

Terratron

I did chuckle a bit at first then… bitterness struck in and made me realize that instead of another battle report, a beta date, new unit annoucements (or atleast playable ones with strategic value), we are given a “transformer” mock up…

o well Blizzard got me good for April Fools ;/.

yeah, fans are going to lash out more and more once they figure out how long blizzard is willing to take their time with this. by 2010 we will all be bitter as hell, even you, deep.thought. you will go from defending blizzard in your news to simply bitching about them. it’s hard to believe there are still fans with optimism, but that will soon be crushed in the coming months of no beta.

And i’ll agree to the point that sc2 development is transparent, but the release date is more shrouded in mystery than any other game in history (i would make the exception of duke nukem forever, but even they disclose release dates.) I’d say that if the release date of sc2 were revealed, I would be happier, even if they don’t hit target dates half the time.

Does it mean we can expect the second Battle Report within a few days?

What makes me a bit bitter about blizzard is thi quote
“In regards to beta, I’m seeing many websites and hoaxes messing with people’s expectations. These are not official announcements, and when that time comes, the official announcement will be written by a blue or posted up on official websites like battle.net and StarCraft2.com.”

I mean they did saw this in the forums as us and did not debunk it when it started, they new the community expected the beta or at least an battle report and now the timers ar up and it’s the 1st of april,  they finaly debunk it. It feels to me like cheap marketing really. But then again they are not responsible for what other sites say… tough they should have seen this comming. =/
And for the april fool’s: I liked the one for diablo 3 beter! ;o)

I think the biggest issue with this “We want more” attitude from fans are, that Blizzard introduced Battle Report 1 to early. I mean the timeline between BR1 and BR2 are way to long. We should rly be seeing BR3/4 at this date. I mean, come on, why even make a sticky bluepost on battle.net/forums with text saying like this “In order to give you a closer look at the fast-paced, intense, and exciting-to-watch multiplayer matches of StarCraft II, we’re creating a series of videos for the official website”

A “series” ? =) It’s soon Beta time and we are waiting for BR2!

I don’t think we will see a BR3, but that I don’t care about. When Beta is up and running. Some of it will hit the youtube. Fans will be happy!

PS: I’m new here, and this is my first post. I’ve been a long time user of the site. Now I have joined in to the forums here because of the “top-secret” Beta forum. I’m waiting for my “camera man” to show up and take a picture of me + my card. See you soon!

Regarding the Battle Report:

It will most likely come within the next few days, since it now is transcripted and is being translated. Let me explain WHY I think it’s close. It’s all to do with the progress of making it:

- Play lots of games until you find the perfect one. This is a long step:
—Need to be about 20min long.
—Should involves a good selection of units.
—Should be interesting to watch.
- Make a basic script.
- PR-ify the basic script.
- Make a voicover.
- Changing/retaking voiceover until it’s PR-ified again.
—Will take several attempts, and requires someone important in the team.
- Writing final voiceover transcript.
- Translate transcript and make web page localization.
- PR-ify translations.
- Release.

Picking right match and PR-ifying it is what takes time. If we cut out written transcript and translations, we could get battle reports a lot more frequently.

We’ll likely see the transcripts very soon, since it’s just a few more steps left.

this news is really stupid. they ARE NOT being transparent and they didn’t spoiled enough information at all… for the love of god, dont be silly, DO NOT endorse Blizzard! you MUST claim a good game and in a reasonable timeline because you pay for it. it’s been 2 years that they’re in the final stage of the developement and we dont have a pale idea of what they are really doing since 2 years… changing icons, some abilities sometimes, changing dubbers… this is so annoying.
Again: it’s been 2 years that the game appears as being playable and enjoyable and they still claim they dont have a clue of when it’ll come out.
We are in a state where the best we can do is to wait for BATTLE REPORTS… lol… not the game, not even the beta, that will be asking too much, we are waiting for battle reports and that’s the best we can expect from them…
pls get out with that transparency thing

Don’t know about you guys, but I’m getting pretty frustrated about not knowing any dates after 2 years. This whole “when it’s ready” bullshit is getting old.

http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=16101961398&sid=3000