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Final-Fan said:
vlad321 said:
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.

I believe your second paragraph is at odds with Gotchaye's second paragraph, which describes a theory I have also told you about.  Please rebut it. 

 

Yes, that's what happened with WC3, but for that very same reason it appears like they just made WC3 and then waited to see how it does then made an expansion pack. Because of this they weren't able to fit the Orcs in properly. If you can remember the "human" capaign wasn't human at all either, it was elves + naga + draenei. Only the Undead and Night Elf capmaigns were actually dealing with their races. If they weren't planning on an expansion pack while developing the earlier game it would explain why this happened. What's going on here with SC2 is the exact opposite, they've already announced the game and 2 expansions and they have plenty of time to plan out the entire story, work hasn't even started on the Zerg and Protoss, and from the most recent news the Terran campaign is only about 1/3rd done (this was before the trillogy so it could mean just 3 missions or 10). If they've planned out 2 more expansions they can easily manage to get all the races involved in all the releases.

 

Edit: WHOOO finally retagged this.



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