Starcraft 2 development to cost $100 million

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Machina said:

Snesboy said:

Machina said:

vlad321 said:

$100 million and we still get that shit of a system called Battle.net 2.0?

Fail.

Was going to say this. You beat me to it -_-

Why does everyone hate battle.net 2.0 so much?

The 4 biggest issues: No chat rooms and the lack of community that gives you, no LAN (not a problem for me, but a big issue for a lot of hardcore StarCraft fans), no cross-region play, and finally the restrictions Blizz are placing on custom map creation and publishing which a lot of the custom map community are outraged by, and which will therefore damage one of the best parts of the original StarCraft's online experience. The good stuff would be ladder rankings which actually work and... er, Facebook integration. Yeah!

12 years and a massive budget later, and they've managed to make Battle.net 2.0 considerably worse than the original. That takes quite some doing.

*reads: "no LAN"*

*joins the hate train*