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"Artificer" <eliezer...@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Many of my friends have told me that as RTS starcraft is better than
> warcraft 3 because it have better strategy and that there are a lot
> more international competitions. Is that true? Can anybody elaborate on
> the subject?
>

There is a lot to this question - and likely someone is going to get pissed 
off about it.

Starcraft was seemingly the perfect combination of strategy, micro and macro 
management, about the right number of units, the races were almost perfectly 
balanced while still allowing different tech trees and building.

Someone at Blizzard decided that they wanted to force people to micro manage 
their units more (As if there were not enough incentive in SC) so they 
developed the game to simplify unit control, building and production while 
focusing on small individual battles.

The idea of creating heroes with special abilities was to increase the 
benefit of multiple race alliances and attacking together.

But it may have been too coached, too idealistic and too forced.  After all, 
people like to do whatever they hell they want with a game, and now someone 
was making up their minds for them how they were going to play.

Some people don't care about playability; graphics are all that appeal to 
them.  Certainly war III has better graphics than SC!

But be careful with arbitrary comparisons, especially superlatives - play 
both games, see if you like them.   After all - games are meant to be fun.

Starcraft will be remembered as a great innovation and development of its 
time, like pong and pac man.   Hopefully our age will see the release of 
starcraft released in a platform independent format.

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LTP

:)