Lance wrote...
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That picture is much truer than you might believe.
All over the English-language internet (the part of it that cares at least) we see
USER RAGE directed at Blizzard screaming, "WERES THE INNUVASHUN?!" "LOL ZOMG LOOKS LYK STARCRAP 1.5"
Think of it this way:
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[*]Warcraft II is recognized as one of the first "competition-worthy" RTS games.
[*]Starcraft was highly derivative of Warcraft II ("Not War-Craft in Space!" its characters whine)
[*]Starcraft is still one of the most active tournament games ever.
[*]The PC is Blizzard's primary platform (said as much when they pulled the plug on Ghost).
[*]South Korea is the 2nd most lucrative market for PC games (Korea haet Japanese consoles)
[*]South Korea is Blizzard's biggest fan (Korea <3 Blizz)
[*]South Korea is home to most of the biggest competitive gaming scenes in the world (Starcraft is still a regular feature).
[*]In
this Q&A session Blizz veep Rob Pardo "...suggests that Warcraft III might have been a more-forgiving game for beginners--differences in skill levels seemed less pronounced in that game...in Starcraft II, there will be many more nuances that will separate highly skilled players from beginners, and good players from great ones."
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IN CONCLUSION:
BLIZZ <3 KOREA TOO :oops:
That's not really a problem for me, I don't play MP RTSs anyway. I just hope the SP campaign will be awesome.