{"id":1078,"date":"2008-10-12T11:34:04","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T15:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/12\/starcraft-ii-a-trilogy\/"},"modified":"2008-10-12T11:34:04","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T15:34:04","slug":"starcraft-ii-a-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/12\/starcraft-ii-a-trilogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Starcraft II: A Trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be heading out on a short road trip to LA tomorrow morning, but I thought I should comment on the big RTS news of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard is doing three long form campaigns for the upcoming Starcraft II, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/onearticle.x\/55267\">and each one will be packaged separately<\/a>. So, if you want to play all three campaigns, you will need to buy the expansion packs. Some units will also be unique to the campaign settings, though otherwise, multiplayer will be fully functional in the initial release.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a lot of complaining about this, and I understand why. There is a feeling that gamers are being asked to pay for something that they used to get for free. There&#8217;s probably also a sense that this is Blizzard, a company with more money than they know what to do with. Who do they think they are? If anyone can afford to put all this stuff in one box, it&#8217;s them.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t such a big deal for me. I generally don&#8217;t bother much with RTS campaigns unless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAge-Mythology-Including-Titans-Expansion-Pc%2Fdp%2FB000P5BSUQ%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dvideogames%26qid%3D1223824974%26sr%3D8-1&#038;tag=flaofste-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">it grabs me pretty quickly<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=flaofste-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAge-Empires-III-Pc%2Fdp%2FB000AB603U%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dvideogames%26qid%3D1223825023%26sr%3D1-2&#038;tag=flaofste-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">I have to play through for work<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=flaofste-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>So if you are really invested in finding out if the Protoss space elves find their way home, then I get why you&#8217;d be annoyed that you will have to wait. But these will be three very long campaigns, and most games only have one of those. <em>Company of Heroes<\/em> didn&#8217;t ship with multiple campaigns. <em>Age of Mythology<\/em> didn&#8217;t, either. <em>Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamershell.com\/download_33916.shtml\">now available for free<\/a>) had three modest sized campaigns. This will be a lot of content. Yes, it will be a fifty dollar purchase plus two expansions. But that&#8217;s not very unusual for a AAA RTS these days. The big difference is that you know how this is going to be months ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to tell you how to feel, of course. If this bugs you, it&#8217;s probably for a good reason. But, as bad as you think this is, it could be worse. <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.shrapnelgames.com\/blog.php?b=353\">Much worse.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be heading out on a short road trip to LA tomorrow morning, but I thought I should comment on the big RTS news of the week. Blizzard is doing three long form campaigns for the upcoming Starcraft II, and each one will be packaged separately. So, if you want to play all three campaigns, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[105,78,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-ho","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}