SCII therefore is NOT a standalone game. They’ve used this word ” standalone” to trick us in thinking that we’re getting a complete game.
Although its milking, but personally thats not why I’m pissed; I don’t have problem with $. (I’ll explain later why it ABSOLUTELY IS milking later…)
More importantly, if you consider my premise above, I’m pissed because I won’t be able to EXPERIENCE STARCRAFT. PERIOD. I’m simply against the idea of waiting for 2nd and 3rd campaign to come out.
They said they’ve “always” thought of having expansions to SC2. I smell bullshit. I think they just came up with that sentence when preparing for this announcement. 2nd and 3rd so called “expansions” are really pieces of ONE puzzle. Broodwar WAS an expansion. If it was never announced to be released, if it never existed, no one would be complaining because we won’t be waiting for something;
Now, however, we WILL be waiting for the 2nd and 3rd part because ONLY THEN will we have experiences STARCRAFT.
Now the milking part: some say “oh its not milking! multiplayer will feature all 3 races!” Actually, they said that 2nd and 3rd releases will have some changes (new units etc) to the multiplayer and people with the first release WON’T be able to play with people with 2nd release. Now….they know that everyone will be like “but but…I dont wanna sit around and play with losers! I wanna play the new multiplayer!!” So therefore, its not just the campaigns, it’s the multiplayer aspect that they’ll use to get $$.

Bottom line: Release everything at once, no matter how long it takes. For me personally, it’s not the $$ that bothers me, it’s the insult to the fans by suggesting that the first 2nd and 3rd release is “standalone” when its REALLY 1/3, 2/3 and 3/3.

And just for the fun of, and because I’m pissed, I hope those torrent guys get busy when 2nd and 3rd come out. Actually, since I don’t play multiplayer, i’ll probably be downloading the first too, and encouraging others to do so as well.

If they really wanted to diddle, I suppose they’d have given all three races a somewhat neutered experience, and then built upon each three with stuff that’s obviously better with each coming expansion. That’d be going for a DLC-like approach because each expansion would be making the game one bought previously feel more complete.

As it is though, when one buys one of these expandalones, all the stuff that’s in there won’t change regardless of what gets released. Players know they have the final product for that faction, they know that they won’t have to adapt their tactics a little while down the road because they’ve only been given the “opener” units first.

So Blizzard has my trust, for now. This is one way they can go about this without it looking like diddling, it might be at the end of the day but they’re managing to avoid my rip-off radar with new tactics. They seem genuine enough though.

I’ll be interested to see how this plays out.