Raven barely above useless? That is the funniest thing I have read today. The unit is ridiculously good. Point defense drone alone makes it bad ass. Hunter Seeker Missile is pretty cool too, and it is the only mobile detector Terrans get. Hell PDD or the detector aspect alone are a great reason to get the unit. Both in one is obscene. You clearly have no idea how to use the unit.

Also, there is an off-line mode. My guess is it is single player only, but it is specifically disabled for the beta. So your basic thesis is completely and totally off-base. My guess is you will need to verify it once, and then connect online to play with other people.

The recent Blizzard interview needs to become a headline.

@ Vlad. The points you made about gameplay are wrong (Except for the Archon) But I agree, the gameplay is watered down but for the following reasons. Zerg air is really scary, especially brood lords.

1 - Micro. The animation canceling and cool micro tricks using the subtle design of units in BW is gone. Instead we have ability micro and hard counters. Anyone can do it and it has no wow factor like in BW what so ever. Also, you can win standard games by just attack moving a ball of units and either press on if you're winning, or start using abilities/retreat if you are loosing.

2 - Online features. Battle.Net 0.2 is a joke. Oh, and no LAN.

Mass Ravens is one of the scariest air forces in any game. But infestors and HTs are just a shadow of their BW counterparts.

Vertigo-X said: Is there a Starcraft 2 Boycott? Maybe we should all sign up!

The best way to keep track of what's going on in the Starcraft community is www.Teamliquid.net

I know there has been talk of similar actions.

Serious question: what is it like to be eternally angry at everything everywhere ever?

I guess you're not the only one who thinks that way, sadly.

No wonder Blizzard can loose thier philosophy of perfection and get away with it.

Personally. Blizzard was my favourite gaming company of all time. They polished their games even more than Nintendo, and had better community and multiplayer features becasue they were on PC. I have grown to expect perfection from Blizzard (and defend them fanatically against any critisism against them that I ever come across), but SC2 isn't perfect. It's a heavily flawed game, it's not a Blizzard game and if they will keep making non-Blizzard games from now on, I will stop buying their games, bacause if they have already given me perfection, I will not revert back to mediocre games. I have no interrest at all in the current form of SC2, and any new Blizzard games that will follow their new philisophy.

Does it mean an initial internet connection EACH time you want to play campaign or just the first time?

There is a big difference between Ubisoft, always on internet connection and say a spore like DRM where you just have to validate your copy ONE TIME and then you can play.

If it's one time each time you want to play campaign - yeah I will admit that sucks, but not nearly as bad as ubisoft's always need to have a connection DRM.

This anger is warranted though. It's Blizzard making a flawed game.

Irrelevant to the question: I literally can not recall a single time he was ever happy or upbeat about something; if it happened, it's rare enough that I haven't seen it.  It's a depressing situation.