Re: #1 Vaporware of 2009: "Starcraft II"

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From: Jonah Falcon
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:30

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On Jan 27, 5:44 pm, Doug Jacobs <dja...@rawbw.com> wrote:
> In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic Lance Corporal Hammer Schultz <star...@gmail.dot.com> wrote:
>
> > After the Duke Nukem Forever fiasco, nothing measures up.  So what --
> > they'll take another year to release a game that works.  Who cares?
>
> Yeah, I don't get this at all.  Blizzard has always had long development
> cycles - and the end result has almost always been worth the wait.
>
> Besides which, I can hardly call Starcraft2 (or Diablo2) vaporware.  I
> mean we've seen quite a bit of the games already.  Half Life Episode 3
> would be vaporware.  We know there's going to be one, but no one knows
> when we'll ever actually SEE it.
>
> --
> It's not broken.  It's...advanced.

beta testing for Starcraft II begins this month.

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