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Startcraft II sells 1.5 Mil in 48 hours... huh
- lsc 16y agowhat I want to know is how come they didn't milk it by releasing a slight upgrade every few years like they did with warcraft?
- sliverstorm 16y agoI'm going to guess you're not being sarcastic and give a straight answer. They are going to do that. This only has the Terran campaign.
- lsc 16y agowell, yes... but my question was why didn't they do that for the last 10 (has it been 10 years?) since starcraft was released?
- mxavier 16y agoIt really bums me out when companies that have terrible, user-hostile policies get rewarded with record-smashing sales. You know their CEOs see the sales report and are all too happy to attribute it to their own doing. See Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 for another example.
- moultano 16y agoThis might be obvious to most people here, but what do you consider to be their user-hostile policies with starcraft 2?
- lmkg 16y agoProbably the most controversial misfeature is that Starcraft 2 doesn't provide LAN support, ostensibly to combat piracy. If you want officially-supported multi-player, it's Blizzard's Battle.net service or gtfo.
- moultano 16y agoInternet access is so universal now that this doesn't seem like much of an imposition to me. What are the other complaints?
- pinksoda 16y agoStarcraft is a national sport in some countries. Not having LAN support is pretty significant because you can't get low latency like that any other way.
- moultano 16y agoReally? I don't buy it. The game hosting is still peer to peer, the packets shouldn't have any need to leave the local network once the game is started. I'd have to see actual tests of people on the same local network with high latency before I'd believe it's a problem.
- sliverstorm 16y agoYou're right on the money, the game takes place on the local network- the only reason the internet is required is so you can log in to bnet.