Starcraft II campaign split into 3 separate SKU's!

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vlad321 said:

shio said:

vlad321 said:

shio said:
They haven't even finished the Terran campaign, and you want them to only release Starcraft 2 when all 3 campaigns are done?? That would delay the game to 2010 atleast!!

And again, their intention was always to have a singleplayer of around 30 missions. the only thing they changed was to switch from 3 small campaigns (10 missions each) to a huge campaign (30 missions). They also thought that this change allows for a better story, so I'm all for it.

Also, I'm not buying the "bad for people who wait for protoss campaign", because I heard no such complaints when it was about Starcraft 1 since Protoss' campaign only amounted to 1/3 of the entire singleplayer. Are you telling me that those pro-protoss people did not enjoy the Terran and Zerg campaigns

I don't see just how you got that I want them to finish all campaigns before releasing the games out of what I said. What I'm saying is to have them release everything with 10 missions from each race, but still have 3 releases. Instead of the 30 per race per release. It would still be an epic campaign, and the story would be unaffected. In fact you could have some awesome non0linear story where if you do something specific on a mission as Terran it would carry over to the Zerg and Protoss campaign as well and change those, it'd be awesomel.

Protoss was 1/3rd of the game, but in this case it's 0% of the game, and a year later it's still 0%, and only afterwards does it come out to 1/3rd. Frankly this feels like they are forcing people to buy all 3 so they can get a complete campaign experience, meanwhile there DO exist people who have played SC but not BW and have enjoyed the campaign just fine. Thus still forcing people, esp. Protoss players, to buy all 3. Oh and big surprise, I can't jsut buy the Protoss campaign, I haave to buy the 2 before it.

If Blizzard had decided to do what you said, it would still be the same thing for the people who want to play the protoss campaign since they would be forced to buy all 3 titles because each had a part of the protoss campaign.

And putting it the way you suggested does hurt the story: fragmentation hurts. Thus the ending of SC2's singleplayer would likely leave you cliff hanging, and so would the first expansion.

Fragmentation hurts... and you don't realize that having 1 race's story is a much bigger fragmentation than having 10 missions each and ahve a nice ending but with a fe loose ends to expand upon? And it won't be the same since they'd be able  to play the Protoss from day 1 of the first SC2 release, not 2 years from it.

You're assuming that all 3 campaigns will have nice story breakpoints exactly 1/3 and 2/3 through them.  Or would you have Blizzard rewrite the entire plot to fit that model?  I'm sure they wouldn't have to compromise the story at all.  

Just because shio's a fanatically rabid Blizzard apologist doesn't necessarily make him wrong.