Starcraft 2 - The Money Grab

[Y3k Bug]

Okay, I just saw this: Tom's Hardware, Second Take piece, and I had to rant somewhere. Unfortunately for you guys, this is really the only online place I hang out in, so I'm ranting to you.

They're chopping Starcraft 2 into 3 games to try and force me to pay 3 times what I should be paying?! Not to mention breaking the game up into years of installments...assuming one doesn't bomb and they can the future ones. They do stuff like this and then wonder why PC pirating is rampant?

I have seen some bold, unapologetic money grabs in my time, but THIS may take the cake.

If you weren't able to tell by this pointless rant, I'm a fan of Starcraft and was greatly looking forward to the next one. I guess I should feel lucky they decided to sell me an entire Marine Statue as opposed to getting pieces of it. ARGHHH!

[silversnake]

I heard that the original starcraft only had about 10 levels , or maps or i don't' remember what and than they released other updates following. I'm not really sure but obviously they are in it for the money, just like every company. Starcraft 2 has so much hype around it, they'll be laughing all the way to the bank

[groovyone]

My version of StarCraft has way more than 10 levels.

That sucks. I was looking forward to StarCraft 2.

[silversnake]

Originally Posted by groovyone

My version of StarCraft has way more than 10 levels.

That sucks. I was looking forward to StarCraft 2.

Sorry i found the article i was talking about.

Blizzard: We're Not "Milking" StarCraft

"Just to give you some context, typically with Blizzard RTSes, we release a single-player campaign that gives players just a taste of each race. The original StarCraft had 10 missions each or so for Terrans and Protoss. When we released the Brood Wars expansion pack, there was another eight or so missions for each of the missions."

[dk3dknight]

They could release these as expansions like the brood war expansion pack..