A Typical Day Of Starcraft 2 Release Date Fidgets
July 10th, 2009
I ended another long day of surfing the net for any news of when the Starcraft 2 release date will be feeling a little discouraged. I supposed I was not any different from any avid gamer who is anxiously awaiting the release of Starcraft 2 or at least a date, or maybe even a Starcraft 2 beta key. So I decided instead to while away the time checking out who else is suffering from the pre-release-beta-isn’t-here-yet fidgets.
While searching for any hint, any rumor, any message relayed on someone’s fillings, or tinfoil hat, about the upcoming Starcraft 2 release date, I come across such gems as “Blizzard filed for the trademark rights on the name Cataclysm“. Right, so what does this have to do with the release date? Nothing at all, but it came up in my search results.
Okay, onward and upward says I. I will not be daunted because maybe someone got a telepathic message from Karune and somewhere on the net it is lying like a buried treasure chest covered by tons of verbal manure. After all with a billion words out here on the interweb surely something will point to what I, and others want to know.
Oh wait, here is an interview with Chris Sigaty on Starcraft 2, and it’s recent so maybe….just maybe. I read the article with blinding speed, and came away with the feeling that Chris Sigaty is a brilliant person who right along with Karune has managed to master the art of using many words to say nothing, but making it interesting anyway.
Fortunately he was not in reach when I read the ending words to this article “We’re targeting the end of 2009 for the release of StarCraft II, but as with all Blizzard games, we won’t release a game until we feel it meets our high standards and the expectations of our players.”
Where have we heard that before?
I surfed a few other places where people were arguing the merits of changes in tech trees, balancing races, and even the effect of mobile units they have not even seen come into play yet. Oh, I just can’t wait for the release, when all the hypothetical arguments turn into practical ones. Now that will be truly heated. Yes, indeed these guys are fidgeting too.
Then by some odd turn I ended up reading about a new unit, The Crucio. Maybe it is just me but doesn’t that unit bear an unsettling resemblance to a spider while in action?
Of course I inevitably end at the infamous YouTube video claiming that getting a Starcraft 2 beta key is just as easy as downloading an application from their site and filling in your information. Oh please, not that again!
Okay, if you are going to do that why not just sit down and write an email giving your Blizzard account to “mr. nameless scammer dude?” That will save you the annoyance of downloading an application designed to do nothing but get your battlenet information so it can report it back to the scammer, who then takes possession of your account and whatever personal information he can get while he is in there.
All of that information on the net, so many searches done and so many words used, and not a single whisper on the release date or beta start.
Oh, and I found a new icon on my Battlenet account home page. A tiny little SC II logo right next to my beta profile link. What does it mean? I don’t know. Why is it there? I have no clue. It’s indicative of my state of mind though, that I would even notice or worry about it.
I sure hope the beta begins soon so we can quit with the Starcraft 2 fidgets and get on with the game.
im begging 
Plizzz send CD key at...
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11 responses so far
Bill // Jul 10, 2009 at 8:53 am
LOL, I was doing the same thing, found your post through google… and just like everything else I read… no word on a release on the beta.
Damn u!
Devon // Jul 13, 2009 at 6:52 pm
I wanna know what the SC icon on my battle.net account is!! they better release the game before 2010.
Lisa // Jul 13, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Bill, so sorry if I knew anything I would tell. I suppose we could form a SC beta blues support group, but that won’t hurry the Starcraft 2 beta, that I would give my pet hampster and all her little offspring for.
Devon, if you find out what that sc2 icon on our battlenet account is and tell me, you can have all my oreo cookies, AND my entire stash of mountain dew!
I do know that people from certain countries don’t have the icon yet (the countries who won’t be in the first beta test groups according to Blizzard).
dango // Jul 13, 2009 at 11:13 pm
still searching as well! came upon your site and see that you’re searhing too! haha, hopefully something will surface soon!
ZAGGAS // Jul 19, 2009 at 5:30 am
I have inside sources from Blizzard because I’m testing the Beta for SC2 and also i’m chatting with some blizzard tehnicias regarding issues of SC..The Release Date is close to October 1st 2009….if things go accordingly to plan…also this information was leaked from amazon.com
Lyle // Jul 19, 2009 at 4:05 pm
I heard from the local used video game store’s owner that they pushed the date back to 2010
dave // Jul 19, 2009 at 9:47 pm
it’s not pushed back, some wall street analyst has predicted that it will be that’s it, one guy
ClipFury606 // Jul 21, 2009 at 7:46 am
Dude I so Agree With what you are saying Delay Delay Delay why must we wait so long AGhhhhhh
ZergFury // Jul 21, 2009 at 12:38 pm
I am guessing that the beta release date will be announced during blizzcon.
alexa // Jul 27, 2009 at 2:15 pm
“covered by tons of verbal manure” is exactly what this two pages of blather is, thank you so much.
Tears // Jan 8, 2010 at 3:17 pm
A few reasons to BOYCOTT Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty!
I. The development of StarCraft II was announced on May 19, 2007, at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Seoul, South Korea. Blizzard set a release date for the first public beta to summer 2009, but failed to make the release date. StarCraft II is being developed, under the codename Medusa, for concurrent release on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Blizzard has not yet announced a release date. Development on the game, initially delayed for a year by the temporary reassignment of Blizzard’s resources to World of Warcraft, began in 2003, shortly after Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne was released. According to Rob Pardo and Chris Sigaty, development for StarCraft II was put on hold for a year in 2005 due to the assistance needed for World of Warcraft.
II. Rob Pardo indicated in a June interview that LAN support would not be included in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. Removing LAN has the effect of forcing players to connect through Blizzard’s servers, Battle.net, before playing multiplayer locally.
III. At the June 2008 Blizzard Worldwide Invitational, Blizzard Executive Vice President Rob Pardo was quoted as saying that development of the campaign was one-third complete. He also said that Starcraft II is to be released as a trilogy of games, starting with Wings of Liberty, focused on the Terrans, followed by Heart of the Swarm, revolving around the Zerg, and finally Legacy of the Void, devoted to the Protoss. – Consider the fact that we still waiting over 6 years for the SC2: Wings of Liberty, this means that the other two will be released in 2022…
IV. The blizzard make fun of us!
THE CONCLUSION: Just fuck them be a MAN!
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