Ed Borden: Ed Borden: Blizzard + Valve, Champions of PC Gaming, Turn eeevviilll
Sean
· 6 months ago
Good stuff.
I actually wasnt a huge fan of L4D, I liked it, I thought it was interesting, but it just didnt thrill me to the extent the editors raved about. I think they're on the right track though, cooperative gameplay is the right thing to do.
I never got the impression it was an incomplete game though. I absolutely love Nazi Zombies though.
One the other hand, what I do miss is the lack of a mod community doing interesting things. Where'd the mod community go? They all get jobs? heh.
Droniac
· 6 months ago
I signed the LAN in StarCraft 2 petition, along with roughly 35000 other people. I doubt Blizzard will listen, but they should. Even if they make it so you can play over LAN as long as you're logged into Battle.Net, you'd still need an internet connection and that is not always easy to come by.
I mean, come on... StarCraft 2 without LAN support is like a WarCraft game without Orcs!
They did recently claim that the expansion packs (the SC2 games released after Wings of Liberty) will probably be priced at an expansion pack price point. I'm not entirely convinced, because they'd have to convince Activision too... and if there is a horrible publisher out there, then it's Activision. They're the new EA now that EA has gone all 'innovative' and 'high quality' and 'activation-DRM-free', whereas Activision has gone 'sequel', 'sequel', 'expansion pack'.
I don't think Activision will stand for stand-alone expansion packs that big (equally large singleplayer campaign to Wings of Liberty and revamped multiplayer for each installment) being published at expansion pack price points.
As for Left 4 Dead 2: I was thoroughly disappointed with the announcement. Then the gameplay videos and previews came... and Left 4 Dead 2 is starting to sound cool. But, what about my full-price original L4D? Sure, we've got mods now, but we didn't exactly get value for our money from Valve this time now did we? Five campaigns, one extra map, one additional game mode and six guns?
I'll still buy L4D2 damn it, but I hope they do something to appease us 'oldschool' (like way back last year) L4D players as well. Give us a discount on purchasing L4D2 or something. Updating L4D will be of no use, because everyone will be over at L4D2 come this November anyway.
Marshall
· 6 months ago
i would hope the starcraft 2 battle.net sub will be cheaper than wow unless they plan on adding lots of content. cause i hate paying subs for games like an rts or fps with wow it wasent hard to see where they come up with that figure, your paying for server repairs and they add raids and other user content so much it's easy to see the price that comes with it.
Droniac
· 6 months ago
Okay, according to recent interviews (IncGamers, Gossipgamers) the StarCraft 2 story is somewhat different:
StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty is the main game, the Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos if you will. Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void are expansion packs that will require Wings of Liberty in order to be played, just like The Frozen Throne. I'd say this drastically increases the likelihood of them being published with expansion pack price tags.
As for Battle.Net subscriptions. In a recent interview with IncGamers (last week), they've said that playing StarCraft 2 and future games on Battle.Net will remain free. But apparently they are thinking about adding in micro payments for additional features (such as hosting a custom tournament or league through Battle.Net.). I hope they don't go overboard with this.
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I actually wasnt a huge fan of L4D, I liked it, I thought it was interesting, but it just didnt thrill me to the extent the editors raved about. I think they're on the right track though, cooperative gameplay is the right thing to do.
I never got the impression it was an incomplete game though. I absolutely love Nazi Zombies though.
One the other hand, what I do miss is the lack of a mod community doing interesting things. Where'd the mod community go? They all get jobs? heh.
I mean, come on... StarCraft 2 without LAN support is like a WarCraft game without Orcs!
They did recently claim that the expansion packs (the SC2 games released after Wings of Liberty) will probably be priced at an expansion pack price point. I'm not entirely convinced, because they'd have to convince Activision too... and if there is a horrible publisher out there, then it's Activision. They're the new EA now that EA has gone all 'innovative' and 'high quality' and 'activation-DRM-free', whereas Activision has gone 'sequel', 'sequel', 'expansion pack'.
I don't think Activision will stand for stand-alone expansion packs that big (equally large singleplayer campaign to Wings of Liberty and revamped multiplayer for each installment) being published at expansion pack price points.
As for Left 4 Dead 2: I was thoroughly disappointed with the announcement. Then the gameplay videos and previews came... and Left 4 Dead 2 is starting to sound cool. But, what about my full-price original L4D? Sure, we've got mods now, but we didn't exactly get value for our money from Valve this time now did we? Five campaigns, one extra map, one additional game mode and six guns?
I'll still buy L4D2 damn it, but I hope they do something to appease us 'oldschool' (like way back last year) L4D players as well. Give us a discount on purchasing L4D2 or something. Updating L4D will be of no use, because everyone will be over at L4D2 come this November anyway.
StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty is the main game, the Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos if you will. Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void are expansion packs that will require Wings of Liberty in order to be played, just like The Frozen Throne. I'd say this drastically increases the likelihood of them being published with expansion pack price tags.
As for Battle.Net subscriptions. In a recent interview with IncGamers (last week), they've said that playing StarCraft 2 and future games on Battle.Net will remain free. But apparently they are thinking about adding in micro payments for additional features (such as hosting a custom tournament or league through Battle.Net.). I hope they don't go overboard with this.