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- softwhere, on 10/12/2007, -4/+243I sure am glad someone announced this announcement that is coming. I sure wish someone had told me about this announcement though. I wasn't expecting it.
- Ngai, on 10/12/2007, -9/+54Mirror Of Entire Article:
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According to a post at Thisisgame.com, Blizzard will announce the sequel for StarCraft in the home land of StarCraft: South Korea. The World Wide Invitational (WWI) is a Blizzard event where top gamers are invited to play Blizzard's games, and that's where the announcement is claimed to be.
Blizzard's strategy for announcing new games have traditionally been by surprising the crowd at one of the major game events. According to Thisisgame, over 100 international media partners have been invited to the World Wide Invitational, and to the possible announcement of a sequel.
Here's the English version, freely translated, of the original source at Thisisgame.com:
Starcraft 2 will be announced to the public on May 19th at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitation (WWI).
On April 25th, according to game company Blizzard Korea Entertainment, it is confirmed that they will announce Starcraft 2 demonstrating it with both vods and graphics. Furthermore, the developers of Starcraft 2 will be there, and have time to answer the questions.
Starcraft 2 is being developed in 3D and there will be new race and some specific changes to remaining races. Details of only minor parts will be released at WWI.
Blizzard invited more than hundreds broadcasting teams from around the world for this announcement. Prior to this very secret moment on May 19th, they will not release any information.
However, from the people who worked to blizzard, there is trusted word about this information. Person who recently retired from USA blizzard said there is development of Starcraft 2 and there will be announcement.
The chairman of Blizzard Korea said “we cannot answer anything about Starcraft 2, we will have a new game on 19th so please come and find out”. He refused to answer if new game is starcraft 2.
The shout castor “Um Jae Kyung” said “I expect it to be very balanced but have concerns regarding E-Sports, but I doubt there will be changes about E-sports in regards to Starcraft I. However, there will be most likely be another league for starcraft II and e-sports will be much bigger. Since I’m one of the gamers, I’m very excited about this”.
The 3rd WWI will be on May 19th ~ 20th in Seoul, and it seems there will be a lot taking place.
No smoke without a fire
Whether or not these claims are true will be difficult to confirm because of the nature of the source (anonymous leak). Over the years there have been much said about the sequel - Blizzard has repeatedly mentioned that they have always been interested in "revisiting the StarCraft world". However, only recently has there been an increasing number of leaks regarding Starcraft 2, all hinting that it is indeed coming out soon. Here's the recent history:
# December 2006: Unannounced project was what Chris Sigaty, Lead Producer of WarCraft 3 (and its expansion), said he was working with when asked by GosuGamers in our recent » Blizzard interview. He would not comment further on what project it was.
# 8th January 2007, GosuGamers » reported about a claim that StarCraft 2 would be announced early 2007. That source also leaked a lot of other unconfirmed information to the gaming community, much which have turned out to be true.
# Only days later, 16th January 2007, at the launch of the Burning Crusade, » a Blizzard representative made further, and this time public, hints about StarCraft II.
# 9th April 2007, sources at FighterForum (» translated at TeamLiquid) claimed that information about a new race and 3D graphics being included in StarCraft 2 had leaked from the company and that a beta would be out by the end of 2008. It only contained claims for a new "Kerrigan" race and that the original units of StarCraft would be included in the sequel, but with a modification.
News is periodically being updated. Thanks to Nal_CrayOn for help with translation.
=========================== - clesch, on 10/12/2007, -6/+49Next stop "World of Starcraft"
I've quit WoW months ago but damn, I'd be a sucker for that one. - frankwii, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43I think I'd prefer it if Starcraft remained closer to its roots than to go astray and move towards WoW. Starcraft should be a style of its own.
There's a reason why so many people still play the original Starcraft, even to this day. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+44I know it's almost instinctive to feel thrilled about such an announcement, but those are some pretty big shoes to fill. I can almost guarantee that Starcraft 2 isn't going to be as good as the first one when it came out. They better work miracles to make the second one at least rise to expectations, if not top the first one. Personally I don't think the first one can ever be topped. It caught everyone by surprise and set the bar highest for RTS games.
- ryllharu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34It will sell at least 49 Million copies, considering every man, woman and child in South Korea will buy a copy.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37WE REQUIRE MORE VESPENE GAS.
- whoaohh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32With Blizzard's level of perfection and polish, I can gaurantee SC2 won't exist unless it lives up to expectations. Keep in mind every single game Blizzard has released has been incredible. If the game would screw their track record, they'd scrap it before releasing it.
- FatherG, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27Of course we all know what this means; you require more vespine gas.
- Kurisuku, on 10/12/2007, -0/+212009 winter, maybe...
- vaxguru, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21My life for Aiur.
- SultanTravi, on 10/12/2007, -16/+35Stand strong with me, clesch. I refuse to pay monthly fees for any video game. TOGETHER WE WILL TRIUMPH!
*plays Guild Wars* - tapo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS.
- clesch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20What makes you think that Blizzard won't release the game on Mac OS X?
Diablo 2, Starcraft, Warcraft 3, World of Warcraft... they all shipped with excellent OSX ports. - rackrent, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20I'm sure they'll just "Take it slow" yet they will "Make it happen." To all who don't appreciate Starcraft: "Did somebody call for an exterminator?"
- h3ndrix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Wtf is Blizzard 2 ?
- snowpatrol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Mary Kate & Ashley Crush Course is also getting a sequel!!!??? AWESOME!
- raithetarkon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I think its safe to say that this game will sell a ridiculously large amount of copies.
- Nodaki, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Spawn more overlords!
Hoping for a fall release, something to do this winter. - darthpaul88, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13power overwhelming!
- zccopwrx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Goliath Online.
- reevolutn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13yea i just restarted broodwars a few days ago ha good timing
- JJ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12GG
RE?
NO RE?
KK - pilgrim3970, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"The latest South Korean sources claim that a new Blizzard leak is out: StarCraft 2 will be announced at the World Wide Invitational, 19th of May 2007."
Great!!! So we should get our first screenshots some time in 2009 and be able to actually play it sometime in 2012!!
Man I can't wait. - DeFex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10As usual with dodgy starcraft rumors i have one thing to say..
SHOW ME THE MONEY - mashedpotatoes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Starcraft > All
- Kamill85, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Man, do you know anything about Blizzard and their announcements? If they'll confirm it now, we'll see a beta sometime in 2008 AT BEST and retail product somewhere in 2009.
- fernando26, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10LIVE FOR THE SWARM!
- mortigon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9after its finally finished in another 20 years...
- igetnospamatall, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12starcraft 2 will probably come out by the end of 2008. starcraft 2 expansion 2009. diablo 3 2010. world of starcraft 2011.
- desolan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I love you Sarge...
- Nyvhek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8well, at least it wasn't the latest North Korean sources.
- mortigon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11i have a new reason to live...
- plnegative1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10sorry, but with the exception of some models that are ridiculously over priced, macs just aren't gaming "rigs" dude.
- foodscience, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The 4th race will be South Koreans.
- strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8He's been buried because it was a worthless comment.
"I'm skeptical. Time will tell."
Well, no *****. Amazing insight! - laserblazer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I'd like a half-rack of ultralisk ribs and some zergling poppers plz
- wonkavsn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Great! Now knowing Blizzard it'll only be 5 years until we actually get to play the game.
- lysernix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It's a Zerglin' Lester.
- Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10EonBlue: Go look at Project Revolution, who are recreating Starcraft in near-perfect detail as a Warcraft III mod:
http://www.wc3campaigns.net/revolution/
That should quell your fears about any limitations 3D graphics will have. The first time I saw a PR screenshot, I didn't realize that it WASN'T StarCraft until I thought "Wait a second, that's too high resolution to be a screenshot of Starcraft..."
And of course, the jump from Warcraft II to Warcraft III was also a 2D/3D jump that worked out beautifully. - GoatMonkey2112, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6There will be another World of Warcraft expansion in there I'm sure, maybe around the end of 2008 or start of 2009. I wouldn't put too much money on Diablo 3. It is too close of a competitor to WoW.
- TheProtested, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7not enough minerals
- Dalrek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7They won't make SC2 an MMO; WoW is too big of a cash cow right now, so why would the very same company create a product that competes with another of its products?
- spyseetuna, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7You must construct additional pylons!
- dn11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6don't worry you will be retired by the time it is actually released.
- testerburner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Greatest game ever gets a sequel....sweet!
- TheProtested, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8heres an idea...why dont they make it like starcraft....retards
- justice7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5A post on a forum is the source? Say it isn't so!
- dn11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"sources at FighterForum (» translated at TeamLiquid) claimed that information about a new race and 3D graphics being included"
that's about the most obvious guess that anyone could make though. that's like saying the next quake game will be a FPS and will have new weapons. it doesn't exactly inspire confidence that any of these rumors are true. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Both Starcraft and Total Annihilation are still going strong 10 years on.
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