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Are you guys Excited about Starcraft II?
« on: March 09, 2010, 10:37:10 pm »
I KNOW I AM!
and the closed beta is out...

did any of you guys sign up for it?
i didn't because at the sign up time i was too lazy lol :(

lets discuss the new units and the old but modified units here!

p.s. i think the medic has been removed! :( (but the drop ship now has the ability to heal) kinda odd if you ask me...
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Re: Are you guys Excited about Starcraft II?
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2010, 10:52:37 pm »
Unfortunately, I was not selected in this round of beta-testing...

If I am not next round, I might figure out an alternate way to get my hand on a beta, though, altough since it's against the rules I'll not discuss further about it here :P

I did not have time to check all units yet, but I saw some vids and it looked awesome. Apparently gameplay is as fast as SC. I guess they learned their lesson from Warcraft 3 (this game was so slow paced. It took 5 minutes to build buildings and the unit cap of 90 sucked!!!!!!)

One thing, though: I heard at many places that Battle.Net for SC 2 will be like WoW: There will be monthly fees. Idk if it's just rumors, though, and if it's true. I hope not, otherwise if it costs as much as WoW, I'm gonna either stick to SC1 until someone figure out a way to play online for free.
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Re: Are you guys Excited about Starcraft II?
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2010, 11:02:44 pm »
WHAT!?
impossible! they can't put monthly fees on an RTS!? they wont get any money from that!
since its not an MMORG you aren't sucked in to the game to have an urge to keep bettering your character... but an RTS is just making your actually control skills better... so if you ask me, i think that doesn't make any sense... plus none of my friends said anything about this...

nor was there any rumors like this on d3jsp.org... so i hope they are just rumors...

one thing that people seriously did not like about starcraft 2 is that they removed the lan system... so you have to buy the game and play online...
other then that... i dont think there is anything else... if there was something about a monthly fee... then it would be flooding over he internet too... so i dont think thats true... otherwise i will hate blizzard for the rest of my life lol...

btw... i agree with you on the warcraft III thing lol... 90 units is nothing...

oh... and did you know that korea already started having official matches with starcraft 2???
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Re: Are you guys Excited about Starcraft II?
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2010, 11:22:17 pm »
Yeah I hope it's just a rumor. I just saw this on some gaming new sites a few months ago

Also, I used to lose hope for SC2 earlier last year, because it seemed to go the same way SC ghost did: IN Oct 2008, released date got pushed back to Dec 08, then again in oct 2009, then dec 09, then 2010, then finally, all we would get in 2010 is a beta. I was afraid SCII was getting discontinued like Ghost :/. Finally the beta came out, though, and I am really happy.

I really hope they won't make it paid online. Again, if it's like $20 a year, I won't mind, though. But still I hope it's free like other RTSes to play online.
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Re: Are you guys Excited about Starcraft II?
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2010, 11:30:27 pm »
I don't know, with the anticipation that it has been building the past couple years I wouldn't doubt if they do have a monthly fee. Though I doubt it would be like $20. I would guess more like $5-10 maybe. Just because it isn't an MMORPG doesn't mean people don't get obsessed with it. I would bet if DotA had put a price on there's many people would have paid :P It's silly, but business is business.
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Re: Are you guys Excited about Starcraft II?
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2010, 11:30:39 pm »
yeah... wow is like 60 dollars per month... thats just BS
and if starcraft 2 is 20 a year... then i say mehh...  :-X

but ya... :) DEATH TO BLIZZARD IF THEY MAKE US PAY MONTHLY!!!)
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Re: Are you guys Excited about Starcraft II?
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2010, 11:40:35 pm »
Since when was WoW $60 a month? My friend only pays like $15.
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Re: Are you guys Excited about Starcraft II?
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2010, 11:56:24 pm »
I play WoW and its a $15 monthly fee. They wouldn't charge any fee for SC2 besides buying the game itself. Any monthly/yearly fee to play SC2 online would never work because no one would go for it for an extended period of time. 
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Re: Are you guys Excited about Starcraft II?
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2010, 12:13:11 am »
Does SC2 supports leveling up like in Halo 3? I mean some online games will let you increase in rankings when winning and winning. Maybe people will play more to rise higher, and that may make them addicted more. If that's the case, that might be an excuse for people to continue paying.

Also be careful with WoW, there are many people who ruined their lives with this drug. In 2005, I saw like 5 people leave the TI community because instead of coding, they spent their entire days on WoW. x.x And WoW is not the only game like this, because my bro nearly ruined his life (and mine) twice with a MMORPG, specifically in Spring 2008 and 2009. Some people here knows what I am talking about. I had to block Paypal, Outspark store and all places where he could buy items  on my router.
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Re: Are you guys Excited about Starcraft II?
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2010, 01:16:12 am »
I'm pretty careful with WoW. I started about 5 months back, before I joined this forum, and I'm still active in coding and somewhat active in WoW (I'm not max level yet, which is something my guild kinda patronizes me with daily...). Besides, if I don't finish the games I already started, it would bother me to no end. Regardless of if I play WoW or not, the projects you see in my signature will be completed and you guys will be the first to know it. :)
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Re: Are you guys Excited about Starcraft II?
« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2010, 01:26:20 am »
Good to hear. I know Rcfreak0 plays WoW on IRC but he is still somewhat here, just far less much. I think he's in the LV 80s or something.

Geno plays WoW sometimes, too, but only on private servers since he doesn't want to pay the monthly fee.

Btw, about RTSes, there is one thing I disliked about SC1: connection speed is throttled to dialup speeds in game. If you download a map, it will never download faster than 4 KB/sec even if everyone has cable. In Warcraft III, this is not as bad, but I hope SC2 fixes this because the following was a VERY NICE WC3 map!



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Re: Are you guys Excited about Starcraft II?
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2010, 11:33:15 am »
mehh... the only MMORG like game thats good i have played is probably runescape lol...
and MegaTen but now i dont play any of the much... they get boring... and i just dont feel like myself in the games at all lol...

so ya... i am more of a fan of the games in which your actual control skills are involved... not some stupid strings and routines telling you if you will win or loose a battle...

thats how i think anyways... i dont really like MMORGs that much... some of my other friends tired to make me join WoW... i started for like a week on someone else's account and got bored lol... never really started... :P
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Re: Are you guys Excited about Starcraft II?
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2010, 01:50:22 pm »
Nice vids DJ! lol that was hilarious.
And I am sooo waiting for Blizzard to release SC2. I wouldn't want the monthly payment tho.
I was never a fan of WC3 or WoW. Never played Wow, don't think I ever will, and I really didn't like WC3's hero system, so I was never really caught into WC3 except may be their Tower Defense.

I love RTS, and favorites are definitely Starcraft and also Command and Conquer Red Alert 2. I played Red Alert 3, but I really had a crappy computer back then, and the game lagged most of the time, so I never caught on to that either.

Back to the topic, I kind of have a general knowledge of SC2, what their units are, etc. since I used to follow the SC2 forum, but now, I got tired of waiting for the release and don't even visit...
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Re: Are you guys Excited about Starcraft II?
« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2010, 02:20:26 pm »
Hell, yeah, I am excited. It has being one big waiting with delays...

And I won't pay to play it online, it is one RTS, after all.
I saw the video, and seems they maintained a bit the menus and general appearance.

I don't like RTS with fancy graphics but bad gameplay/strategy. I hope it doesn't happen with SC2.
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Re: Are you guys Excited about Starcraft II?
« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2010, 11:48:18 am »
Quote from: schoolhacker on March 09, 2010, 10:37:10 pm

p.s. i think the medic has been removed! :( (but the drop ship now has the ability to heal) kinda odd if you ask me...

They did this because medics would not be able to keep up with Reapers as they jumped up and down slopes.  The dropship solves this problem, and it also means that one doesn't have to full the dropship with any medics
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