StarCraft 2 Release Date...?

[Ashigaru]

Blizzard was the one making the decisions though.

 

[Renzokuken]

but I've had good information it will be in Sept 2008.

Was your information from the inside of a cardboard tube?

 

[RyanXWing]

Well after playing it at PAX I'd say we can look forward to it coming out pretty soon. All the races look pretty close to complete. Zerg had all their buildings and units available I assume they're working on the balancing now. Which as long as they don't discover they need to completely shift the game should mean I release pretty soon.

 

[flanx]

Blizzard still holding the release date of this game...

 

[Sogeking]

late janurary 09?

 

[Emperor Pan I]

late janurary 09?

They said the release date is on schedule for a 2009 release. January 2009 is not realistic, summer to fall 2009 is.

 

[Sogeking]

i was basing judgment on ryanxwing's post. Kind of hard to believe the game needs 8-10 more months of development. I'm betting that they'll give a release date during blizzcon.

 

[Emperor Pan I]

Two things. First off You aren't accounting for the fact the game isn't 100% played internally at Blizzard. Then they need to shift to Beta testing, which will need a couple months, maybe more depending. Then they need to release at a proper time. Also single player has to be finished, Cinematics, Voice Acting, Music, which who knows what level of completion that is.

It's also marketing. The game isn't coming out in January, no big game does that right after christmas. Either right before, or at least 3-4 months after, so earliest would be April, but more likely June-july, aka summer, which is what I said.

Just for Example in the last month the Jackal, Nomad and Archon were all redesigned, and the Nomad/Jackal got renamed. Not everything that "seems" complete is going to stay. If it was any other company than it probably would be a couple months but I highly doubt that.

 

[Sogeking]

well when you put it that way...

 

[Wing Zero]

ifi t is indeed09... i need a new computer if it requires pixel shader 2.0

 

[GAMEMASTERCHAN]

They can take all the time they need. The longer it takes them to polish the game and finish things up, more likely the better the end product.

 

[cellulariceteas]

I thought it was released already

 

[Go.Google.It]

were did u hear that from ?

 

[Ashigaru]

They can take all the time they need. The longer it takes them to polish the game and finish things up, more likely the better the end product.

Time taken and quality aren't always proportional. Just look at spore.

 

[MGCImtR]

Remember that even if they have yet to redesign some units, make the campaigns and cinematics, the chance to release some sort of beta before the end of this year remains. Because there would be no point in releasing a beta later if they are to release the whole game later. War3 beta didn't have the campaigns included in their mpq, nor did they have any other race apart from human, if im not mistaken.

 

[RandoM]

I have "Confirmed" this through a friend who is very close to the starcraft 2 project. The thread is here. Starcraft 2 Release Date ** Confirmed ** - Starcraft 2 Vanilla. I just would like to note, its not that blizzard does not want to release an EXACT date, but THEY don't even know the date.

 

[Carbon]

I just want something new from Blizz that isn't WoW related

 

[Emperor Pan I]

I have "Confirmed" this through a friend who is very close to the starcraft 2 project. The thread is here. Starcraft 2 Release Date ** Confirmed ** - Starcraft 2 Vanilla. I just would like to note, its not that blizzard does not want to release an EXACT date, but THEY don't even know the date.

If that was even remotely true, I'll be the first to say I was right.

 

[Wing Zero]

plz for th love of god no pixel shader 2