Starcraft 2 Wishes

What do you want or not want to see in Starcraft 2?

My wants:

More units and removal of the "Cannot create more units" thing.
Another playable race (Xel'Naga) and better balancing between each race.
The same unit structures and such as the first one
3D environments and game, but so the camera can zoom out to see much more of the action unlike Warcraft 3 which is zoomed in too much
New units (just a few, nothing major).
Better defensive structures.

Don't Want:

Heros.
Creeps.
Anything that Warcraft 3 added that wasn't in Warcraft 2...
Upkeep, this is the worst addition.
Low unit counts.
RPGish.

Starcraft is really about massing an army. I want to see the zergling rape in full force in Starcraft 2. I hope we get to see it soon.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3980165796053569246 I think this one is fake.

WOW.

That's a pretty good fake video. I see the hybrid Protoss/Zerg unit in the begin...

I have a wish... releasing the game.

Wants
Same Races, Just More Types
No 3D. I know thats stupid but its just the way I think starcraft should be
Releasing the game (biggest one)
no MMO, NO MMO!
thats about it

being a huge starcraft i mean HUGE starcraft fan if this isn't done right IF it is done then i will be PISSED
i was addicted to the first one and the expansion until my comp broke and so did the program and i couldn't find my key, this weekend im buying a battle chest =] Star Craft is the first real addicting game i ever played online and i love it and can't ever get enough, its so simple its amazing i really hope they don't screw it up

There is a reason for 3D... camera angles and zoom.

Imagine actually being able to zoom out to see more of the action.

We really need to be able to command more units at the same time.

yeah i forgot about that, even though i liked making squads of i think it was twelve, i'd really like unlimited unit selecting

I really hope they don't do a "World of Starcraft" game, but with World of Warcraft subscripitons still rising and approaching 7 million you could see why they might want to. Then again, they aleady have over 50% of the MMORPG market share, would they really want to lay out all then money to setup another one just to compete with themselves? I think they would be best off making kick ass RTS games and just continue to add content and upgrade to WoW.

Never really though about just how much money they are bringing in. Subscribiton are $13-$15 / month depending on what plan you use. Averaging together you get about $14 per month per subscriber X 7,000,000 = $98,000,000ish last month, not including new game box sales.
That is just sick; And to top that off they have an expansion coming out toward the end of the year that will likely having subscribers paying another $40 or more.

EDIT:
Just saw this scary news item from June... sounds like they are planning World of Starcraft, World of Diablo, etc.
Hopefully if true this doesn't mean ther will be no Starcraft 2 RTS

http://f13.net/?itemid=167

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Vivendi Universal Games gave a presentation to Wall Street today. Too much to report on everything said, but the big one was:

"All Blizzard franchises will become MMOGs."

All. They claim they have a model now to develop an MMOG in 3 years for $50 million. WoW cost 50 million euros and took 4 1/2 years.

It figures. VU Games sucks. It sucks that Blizzard got gobbled up.

Blizzard has turned into yet another media company that only cares about making a profit as opposed to make a good, fun game.

Blizzard, you have failed me.

I found a responce from Blizzard, they say they have NO PLANS to make another MMORPG and will not become VU's MMORPG bitch... Apparantly this all started from a confusing Powerpoint presentation.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6152718.html

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Alas for those yearning for a marathon World of Starcraft session, Blizzard moved quickly to quash rumors of any non-WOW MMOGs. "No, that rumor is not true in regard to Blizzard," the company told GameSpot this morning. "We believe that the rumor circulating about this subject is based on a misinterpretation of information provided to industry analysts."

Blizzard also took pains to emphasize it has not become Vivendi's specialty MMOG developer. "We do not currently have any MMO development plans beyond the upcoming expansion for World of Warcraft, and furthermore, we don't have any intentions to focus on only one genre or platform with our future games," a rep told GameSpot. Indeed, Blizzard's jobs page has listings for both console and PC positions, although none mention any specific new titles by name.

Thank you for the news... sadly, I believe that Blizzard will be doing things that they normally wouldn't be doing.

Starcraft 2 should have came out a long time ago.

+1. Thanks for the news. I'm glad Blizzard is sticking to its guns.

they're not making the starcraft mmo but they are making one for diablo =(

Just release the stupid game and don't make it a MMORPG!

There was another previous gamespot article, on the same subject before Blizzard made that official announcement quoting Blizzard Forum moderators which sounds like BLizzard is still standing up for themselves. I would also assume that they never imagined the amount of work they would continue to have to put into WoW which has likely delayed other projects, but I do agree Startcraft 2 is LONG LONG overdue.

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Last night, "Drysc" told a thread of understandably excited WOWers the following: "I believe this was a misquote. We haven't announced any specific development plans beyond the upcoming expansion for World of Warcraft, and we don't have any intentions to focus on only one genre or platform with our future games."

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Later, another Blizzard moderator, "Eno," issued a more vociferous denial. "Nothing in that rumor is true in regards to Blizzard.," he said in a post. "If I had to guess, there was some confusion between what Vivendi has planned for its its game division versus what Blizzard has planned. While Blizzard is owned by Vivendi, their game division operates separately from Blizzard."

Said By NTSCrZhao

Just release the stupid game and don't make it a MMORPG!

Agreed

I don't think that there will ever be a true SC2, which is shame. I don't know when Ghost is coming out, but I might look at it.
I guess we'll see what happens, but one can only cross their fingers and hope.

I'd have to agree with Aron's wants. So are they really making a starcraft 2 after all this time? After all my waiting?

The only thing I know of, is that video is PROBABLY a Mod of Warcraft 3. There's a modding group out there (Forgot their names... the website MIGHT be http://www.snowflake.com or something) who made a FULL SC mod of Warcraft 3; meaning you need both games installed to play. However, it's a true-3D rendition of SC, which might be awesome.

SC probably won't get a World of Starcraft, only because of their prospects with Starcraft Ghost, etc, which hasn't really been canned, just sidelined.

And, WoW isn't that bad... It's just another MMO... Which I kind of like, haha.

Said By Nihilistic Mystic

I really hope they don't do a "World of Starcraft" game, but with World of Warcraft subscripitons still rising and approaching 7 million you could see why they might want to. Then again, they aleady have over 50% of the MMORPG market share, would they really want to lay out all then money to setup another one just to compete with themselves? I think they would be best off making kick ass RTS games and just continue to add content and upgrade to WoW.

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Yeah, all a WoS game would do is take away from WoW, unsecessfuly. ppl who play WoW wont switch that easily and blizz knows they would just be wasting time and money on another MMO, but a nasty RTS, that may be where its at