$150 to Play Full StarCraft II?

11th Oct 2008 10:15 PM GMT | Leord | 1 comments
Blizzcon 2008 Coverage >> $150 to play full Starcraft 2?

Since the announcement that StarCraft II will be shipping as three separate products to be the "StarCraft II Trilogy", there has been several criticising voices against this, in terms of having to purchase several boxes, and possibly paying $150 (£75) just to get the full game.

StarCraftWire.net had an interview with Chris Sigaty, where he disclosed the details of these statements, and whether or not players will have to get them all to play simple multiplayer with each other. As you can read from the StarCraft Gameplay Panel, the game will ship in three parts:

• Wings of Liberty (Terran)
• Heart of the Swarm (Zerg)
• Legacy of the Void (Protoss)

It seems the decision to divide SC2 into three was discussed last BlizzCon, and got finalised sometime around new year, and now announced at BlizzCon. It will work more or less exactly like expansions, as two were already planned for SC anyway. This means that you will need to have all three boxes if you want to play with other people that have all three, or you can play in "Wings of Liberty Mode", which only requires that original box. Yes, this does mean that you will have to pay whatever price it would total to (they have not discussed that yet, ofc), in order to play

There will be about 30 maps per campaign, instead of 8-10, and will ship like proper stand alone products.

Their response to negative opinions on buying three boxes to get one game is that the project is just so big, and it has more to do with time than money, meaning that they didn't want to let players wait for an additional year just to get the game. It's the same deal as two expansions, and people will probably be playing just "Wings of Liberty" as well as the additional content. This is very similar to how StarCraft I and WarCraft III works as well.

Stay tuned for the full interview that will be posted on StarCraftWire.net later on!