Following an interview with SCII’s Lead Designer Dustin Browder, recently published on shacknews.com, Blizzard apparently is hardly working on BattleNet 2.0 - keeping a back door open:
Should we see StarCraft II being released without THE full BattleNet 2.0 ?
Obviously they still have a lot to do to get all the announced details into the new BattleNet. Nevertheless this would mean they try and want to publish the highly anticipated sequel by the end of this year - possibly even without the full feature set of BattleNet 2.0.
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| Dustin Browder: I don’t know. Let’s try. Let’s see where they stop us, right? [laughs]
I can’t tell you a whole lot because in reality, anything I say might be a lie. We’re still working on it, and it’s kind of up in the air. I kind of wish it wasn’t, but it kind of is. What you saw today is not where we’re going. It’s a version that we have that has a lot of problems that we don’t like. It was never meant to be the final version, but we’re getting further and further away from that being close to the final version. We’re trying to do more and more stuff. We’re hoping to have support for casual leagues, support for professional leagues, hardcore leagues. Hoping to do a lot more with friends, more with replay sharing. A lot of it you can probably guess, but what makes ship, what doesn’t, what comes in later patches—what we decide to do with it exactly does depend. And I’ve got a design meeting today, and it’s about what’s going on with Battle.net. |
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Head over to our friends at Shacknews.com and read the full interview and discuss here, If you would either have StarCraft2 released without Bnet 2.0 this year or with Bnet 2.0 next year?
