Starcraft II campaign split into 3 separate SKU's!

[vlad321]

naznatips said:

You can play all the races in each game. The campaign is hardly necessary to learn them. Some good RTS games anymore don't even have campaigns (Sins of a Solar Empire, Demigod).

Half-Life 2 was not remotely a complete game. The ending was not the ending of Half-Life 2. No, they expected you to buy 3 more games to get to the ending, and we still haven't gotten the last game (4 years down the road). We'll get the other 2 pieces of the Starcraft campaign much faster than that.

You all overreacted to a situation before you took the time to think it through. As a PC gamer I'm embarrassed to see such reactions from my fellow gamers.

 

The whole argument is over pricing and their structure of the campaigns, or at least that's my problem with it. We have't heard anything about pricing other than "we'll determine how much it should sell for when done" and "we want to get them as close to full games as possible," which in my head adds up to a possibile $50 charge per release. It doesn't matter how they try to spin it the 2nd releases will not be full games and that's that. But that's assuming too much.

 

The other problem is the stucture. Yes I can play all 3 from the getgo, they stated that a whole bunch of times to calm some people down, but my problem is with playing 30 missions at a time with a race and then waiting another year for the next race's 30 and then another year. They claim this will allow them to have campaigns which are not linear and epic in size, which is true, but they can achieve the same thing if they had 10 missions per race per release as well. I'll still be playing Protoss from the start ( I don't need a campaign to learn), but I don't want to be waiting 2 years to get to their campaign. Also as I stated above, since they are doing the main game + 2 expansions thing, Protoss fans are forced to buy the previous releases (or maybe just the main game without the Zerg release?) to play even a single campaign mission.

 

Those are my problems with what they are doing and I have thought them through fully and spent hours online trying to scrounge up as much info about this issue as possibile.