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[teddog]

Turns out Blizzard;s big announcement was StarCraft II, so more rednecks iiiiinnn spaaaaace!

Big rumour was that Blizz was going to make a "World of StarCraft", but this doesn't appear to be the case; rather, Warcraft's switch from RTS to MMO was probably to expand their market reach, with Warcraft being their MMO, StarCraft as the RTS and Diablo as the action/RPG. I'm not really a big RTS fan (the only RTS game I own is Star Fox Assult and it's not complex at all), so I'm kinda "Eh" on the whole thing.

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[mbehemoth.livejournal.com]

I'm pleased as I was worried Blizzard was going all MMO and I had played all their RTS's and rather enjoyed them.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it's not another MMO, because that would mean Blizzard would be forced into juggling two MMOs.

Except now we have all these "OMG! StarCraft 2 is gonna kill WoW!" posts in the forums, but the forums were a pit to begin with.

[mbehemoth.livejournal.com]

Hardly. RTS =/= MMO. I'm quite grateful they chose to release this dispite the fact it will never come close to success that they've had with WoW. Not as much appeal or staying power.