Starcraft 2 makes major announcements (and I am off the hype train)

[Jereel Hunter]

Final-Fan said:

ameratsu said:

I admit I haven't read all posts in here, but I am the only one who remembers the spawn installs from Starcraft? It allowed you to install additional copies of starcraft for the purpose of lan and battle.net (as long as they were used with the original copy). Seems Blizzard is way too about the moneys to include something like that for SC2.

I remember! 

I remember too - it was an awesome idea. Almost everyone I spawned a copy to ended up buying the full game. Blizzard knew they had a winner - spawning essentially became a super-demo. Then Brood War came out and made everyone relying on a spawn buy the battlechest.

 

But the SC franchise is so strong now, spawning is unnessecary, everyone will buy the game when it releases, and they know it. (And honestly, given the option to wait a couple extra months for them to code in spawning, or just releasing, I'm pretty sure almost all the paying customers would prefer it release earlier.)