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Blizzard Still Making "Significant Changes" to Starcraft II Story

by Nicholas Taylor, posted on 25 October 2010 / 1,626 Views

At Blizzcon during the weekend, Chris Sigaty, producer of Starcraft II, said that the company is still sorting out the story for the two upcoming editions, Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void, which will be focusing on the Zerg and the Protoss respectively, in contrast to the already released Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty which held its focus on the Terran.

This could be the reason that Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm isn't set for a release any time soon.

When asked if the story for Starcraft II was fully written, Sigaty replied “Not really, no. We’re making pretty significant changes and still figuring things out.”

He also added that a lot of the next iteration's content and mechanics are still being worked on.

“We will be very hard pressed to bring it out next year,” he said.

“I don’t have a date, but it’s more ambitious, it’s bigger than what Warcraft: The Frozen Throne was to Reign of Chaos; I don’t anticipate it being done in that one-year time-frame.”

It was also officially said, as if it wasn't already made clear, that Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm will definitely not see a release during 2011.


3 Comments

AwesomeElmo
AwesomeElmo (on 25 October 2010)

I thought the story in Starcraft 2 was pretty cool. The ending was a total surprise and leaves you thinking "wow so Heart Of The Swarm is not going to be how I imagined it at all".

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Vertigo-X
Vertigo-X (on 25 October 2010)

Soo... Anybody else thinking Blizzard screwed the pooch with the story on this one and now they're trying to figure a way out? Honestly, it's not smart at all to start the story for anything and release bits of it as it's developed. I hope I'm wrong and Blizzard actually pulls it off, though.

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Baalzamon
Baalzamon (on 25 October 2010)

The more and more I see this kind of news, the more I think they're trying to make it big enough to justify charging $60, and not $40 for it...they did say they would charge $60 if it offered as much as the original game offered...and Frozen Throne was an absolutely massive add-on to Reign of Chaos, and just one expansion of the two will be more?

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