-
Join the MyBroadband community
South Africa’s biggest forum. Discuss, discover, and connect with thousands of members.
-
Question of the Day: How do you normally pay for purchases in stores?
Blizzard to release StarCraft II as trilogy
- Thread starter rpm
- Start date
lord_spaceman
Expert Member
<moLe>
Expert Member
could prove bang for your bucks
On the otherhand I suppose this is like having a game that already has two expansion packs in the pipeline rather than releasing it later. Sure this way they will probably triple their profits, but this is assuming that the game is actually so good that people will continue to buy the other two. That could happen, after all people have extremely high expectations for Starcraft II
RoosTa
Expert Member
Explain how it will triple their profits? If they had a total of 30 missions split into 3 games, then I would agree with you, but they have said that the total will be 90 missions with branching story lines. Thats triple the amount of work and they are planning to release the games within 1 year of each other.
Everyone is assuming they are taking 1 game and splitting it into 3. What they fail to understand is that each campaign will be a game on it's own. Best comparison is the LotR trilogy. 3 movies 1 storyline. That is what a trilogy is.
PS Starcraft 1 had a total of 32 missions.
Last edited:
Since you've gone off and taken my comment out of context here is why the development costs are not the same as making three different games: THEY BUILT THE PLATFORM ALREADY. i.e. they don't have to actually develop the game from scratch since vast majority of the stuff has already been developed. I agree with you that there are still significant development costs but they are not even on the same level. This is why they can make comments like releasing them one year after each other instead of the 4 to 5 years it took to release the 1st one, even though they haven't started working on the 2nd campaign yet.
So maybe triple will be an exaggeration, but easily double.
.. and the 3rd option was to put all three parts of the game onto a bunch of DVD`s and ship it as a whole product.
The only reason I could imagine them shipping it like this is because they misrepresented their release date to the public and are doing this to a) finish their product and b) make more money off you.
medicnick83
Paramedic
I actually don't mind it coming out as a trilogy.
Just so long the game is not R299 + a shot, then seriously, Blizzard and just kiss my ass!
Just so long the game is not R299 + a shot, then seriously, Blizzard and just kiss my ass!
Toxin
Expert Member
Has there been a release date set yet?
<moLe>
Expert Member
this will prove if blizzard after its coup with activision will still deliver like the blizzard we all believed in
RoosTa
Expert Member
I do understand that, but there are many games that re-use the same engine.
All I'm saying is that it's not Blizzard's intention to "rip-us-off". We have no idea what the games will contain content wise.
I see it like this: LotR trilogy or All of LotR in 1x 3 hour session. If it was the latter, it would have more than likely sucked.
Anyways, buy the 3 games from next year or wait for 4 years when all of them are boxed in one battle chest. The choice is yours.
Last edited:
saffakanera
Expert Member
- Joined
- Sep 25, 2006
- Messages
- 4,370
- Reaction score
- 145
Roosta, ek het 1 koekie, ek breek my 1 koekie in drie koekie stukkies, NOU HET EK 3 koekies! yay!
BinaryJack
Spam
This could also mean that they have to push the game out quicker than planned and they can release the "full game" as a trilogy to milk the cash cow.
remybfg10k
Expert Member
Think of this, if they release the first game, it sucks (hope not) and is a loss to them, will they continue making the other 2?
Seems like the first game is going to be REAL buggy (hope not) as it really seems like they are trying to rush it into the market and start trying to boost those profit margins.
Seems like the first game is going to be REAL buggy (hope not) as it really seems like they are trying to rush it into the market and start trying to boost those profit margins.
RoosTa
Expert Member
5 years in development (so far) is rushing? Damn seems pretty slow to me.
BinaryJack
Spam
It just seems that all games are going "episodic"...
remybfg10k
Expert Member
5 years is way too long, the pressure (from investors no doubt) to bring the game into the market would increase each and everyday.
In the end there will be rushing to get it out, i can guarantee it, just have a look at Civ4, how many patches had to come out just to make it playable?
RoosTa
Expert Member
... and so far Blizzard have had a good track-record at not rushing games out. SC2 will only be released by next year and they have allowed people to play the MP game at Blizzcon. Blizzard have gained my trust by releasing quality games, so I trust them to release SC2 when it's done and polished.
PS Blizzard did not develop Civ4
PS Blizzard did not develop Civ4
There has not, Blizzard are being as tight lipped as ever. Their attitude is "it'l be out when its ready", typical Blizzard. Although that attitude has worked pretty well for them so far.
If Blizzard were to put everything they wanted intoone release, then the game would probably take another three or four years.
Personally, I think that what Blizzard is doing is awesome. It means that they can make each game something truely special. I cant wait to see what they do with the Terran campaign.
Just buy the first one, if you play the entire campaign and still feel like another two campaigns are not worth it, dont buy them. You will still get over 20hours of game time out of the campaign and you will have still have the complete multiplayer.
Last edited: