Actually, it’s just the hey-where’s-that-beta of Starcraft II that has been delayed until 2010, but all this slippage is starting to make the field a bit sparse. Are all the games going to suddenly wake up next to each other in early 2010, thrash around in a panic, and delay things for another year-segment? Will Tiny Tim have anything to play come Christmas morn? The news of SC2’s vanishment into the future came (in)directly from Acti-Blizz biz-duke, Bobby Kotick he said: “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.”
He probably knows what he’s doing, as the company brought in over a billion dollars last quarter, according to VG247’s report. There will be more through there later, if anyone cares about Acti-Blizz money stuff. Not me, I’m off to smoke some feathers and get high on loose jazz.
Update: Ooh, apparently this is tied to a Battle.net delay.
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@Psychopomp
‘Course not. I threw 2.5 years down the WoW rabbit hole, too. But this is the internet. What have we to discuss but the braying of the vocal minority?
@Psychopomp – I believe the who Mana system was created to allow Wizards and spell users to have extremly powerful spells and abilities but limit their usage to even them up with warriors.
I’ll be honest, I’m not closed minded or anything and I’m going to buy SC 2 even if I don’t think I’ll like it. If it captures what was good about SC then I supose I’ll probably end up liking it one way or another.
I hope SC2 is good. After all the talk, I am just another gamer and get incredible good hours from good games :-)
@Railick
It wouldn’t matter if you liked it or disliked it, you already bought it.
+1 for Company of Heroes not being very good/interesting. Hope Starcraft 2 isn’t like that.
It wouldn’t matter to you or to Blizzard but it would matter to me ;P It wouldn’t be the first game I’d purchased that I ended up not liking, not by a long shot.
-1 For Company of Heroes not being good.
HA!
@Railick
That’s another thing. In the cases where it’s used like that, casters go from useless, to absolutely godlike, whilst melee classes start at useful, and end up around “meh.”
+1 for Company of Heroes being good, BTW