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| "As we prepare for next year, we have moved the expected release dates for two games, Activision Publishing's Singularity and Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft II, into 2010." | ||
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| Today we announced that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will not be ready for release by the end of 2009. Over the past couple of weeks, it has become clear that it will take longer than expected to prepare the new Battle.net for the launch of the game. The upgraded Battle.net is an integral part of the StarCraft II experience and will be an essential part of all of our games moving forward. This extra development time will be critical to help us realize our vision for the service. Our mission is to develop games that deliver an epic entertainment experience. As part of that commitment, we will always take as much time as needed to ensure that our games and services meet the expectations of our players and the standard for quality that we set for ourselves as developers. As we work to make Battle.net the premier online gaming destination, we’ll also continue to polish and refine StarCraft II, and we look forward to delivering a real-time strategy gaming experience worthy of the series’ legacy in the first half of 2010. We will share more details about the beta, Battle.net, and StarCraft II’s launch in the future. Keep an eye on the official website at http://www.starcraft2.com for updates, and as always, thank you for your continued enthusiasm and support for StarCraft II and all of Blizzard Entertainment’s games. |
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This is RIDICULOUS! I realize Blizzard places emphasis on quality over the length of development but this policy of “when it’s finished” REALLY needs to change….By being release in 2010 that will push the game into its SEVENTH year of development, and TWELVE years after the original. If that doesn’t qualify for vaporware I don’t know what does.
Whoever is in charge of this project really needs to get their butt kicked and Blizzard definitely needs to hire more people….I remember reading somewhere that they only have about a dozen or so programmers working on this game, for a company that is supposed to be THE premier developer for PC titles that is pathetic.
ya annoying.. ill just be pissed off if Blizzard pushes back other games just because sc2 team is having trouble handling there stuff..
I think I understand this, but not ALL people is going to be allowed to play the beta. If I could, this new wont be sad.
StarCraft II and Battle.net must be perfect at release. If Blizzard needs more time, they should push it into 2010…
Waiting a few months longer and getting a game for the next ten years is much better than play a crappy game at christmas and throw it after a week away.
I think you missed my point....it's not a matter of few months, as I mentioned the game will be in its 7th year of development by the time it's released. Yes that is seven years, about double the time it takes most games to be developed. The game itself seems to be finished while battle.net 2.0 is what they are working on now so it's not that it would be a 'crappy' game, it's in incomplete game...someone at Blizzard clearly dropped the ball.
This is pretty ridiculous. I wish they would at least give some sort of explanation why it was pushed back even more. At least they never promised anything, so there is nothing to break, however they DID promise beta testing this summer. We shall see.
The main cause for the delay is battle.net 2.0. From what I know I think MP (apart from bnet 2) is about done and even sp should be pretty far along. It seems there has been some miscalculation on how long it would take them to build bnet2.
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OH NO NOBODY COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING OH MY!!