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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53605

Just after the announcement was made by Activision Blizzard on the delay of StarCraft II\'s release into the first half of 2010, Blizzard\'s PR folks sent out this official statement: 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

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Koogle · Elite Member Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 1362

funny really.. Battle.net is the very thing I couldn't give a fuck about having to have on my machine +running just to play the game.. and yet that's the thing they are delaying SC2 for...

tub0rg · Junior Member Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 151

eh just to be clear, battlenet isnt running on your machine, at least it wasent, i doubt that they will create a seperate client for it in the future.

battle net was and is the server provider for diablo, starcraft and warcraft. its where blizzard saves your statistics, ladders, tournaments, or just you characters server side. no client software involved other then the games of course.

ykazka · Contributing Member Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 89

I think its all bs. Nobody wants to publish a game at the same time as CoD:MW2 comes out.
They are just scared to loose money. Unfinished game never stopped those greedy dudes from publishing the game. They would patch it anyway. Just wait and look for yourself. How many patches did the original StarCraft have? 15.10?

strangestsensation · Elite Member Joined: 13 Sep 2008 Posts: 320

I'm not getting this hunk of shit anyhow. If gameplay has to go through Battlenet and not just a pure lan they can go fuck themselves. I have a MAJOR HATE going for Blizzard right now. And like someone said here. GREEDY FUCKS.

Koogle · Elite Member Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 1362

tuborg.. battle.net is now a required client.. not how it used to be when you could just start up the and get stuck right in singleplayer/campaign /skirmish /lan etc... and when you wanted to play via internet then you'd go through the battle.net interface... better that way.... its now become retarded where you'll have to start up the client.. forced to wait for whatever crap.. updates...etc etc etc.. all before actually just getting into the fucking game.. by which time you might have just lost fucking interest... basically they're pulling a steaming shit service much like valve.

and my inner starcraft fan has kinda lost interest I mean the gfx of some of the units and buildings and color styles.. hmm bit too cartoonish i prefer the more gritty and less curvy original (for terran anyway)... but that could change... then there is the character voices and bg music.. all of which i've not heard yet.. and gameplay ... an SC update is already long overdue, pulling out lan support, and already announcing its only like 1/3 of the game are some really stupid moves.. specially the later part coming from a company like blizzard.. i guess they thought it was the closest thing to ripping people off for a grind fest like wow... where they can string things out.