" You don't get it man I've won like 20 games I'm super pro so I can say that starcraft 2 is perfect and will be the competitive game of the decade even if I have no fucking idea of any future changes that Blizzard might make or how the competitive scene might be in the following years. "

" @rhodric said:

" @SJSchmidt93:  thank you. like i said, the game isn't balanced towards 2v2s 3v3s. "

I never said rushes worked in 1v1. I was always talking about 2v2 and 3v3. So I really don't know what you accomplished here other than making high tier players look like assholes. "

" @Detrian said:

" You don't get it man I've won like 20 games I'm super pro so I can say that starcraft 2 is perfect and will be the competitive game of the decade even if I have no fucking idea of any future changes that Blizzard might make or how the competitive scene might be in the following years. "

because sc2 communities are nonexistent, right? and it doesn't have a huge following already, and every single one of blizzard games hasn't become competitive games that lasts decades, right? keep on lying to yourself, kid. whatever helps you sleep better at night. "

 @Detrian said:

" @rhodric said:

" @Detrian said:

" You don't get it man I've won like 20 games I'm super pro so I can say that starcraft 2 is perfect and will be the competitive game of the decade even if I have no fucking idea of any future changes that Blizzard might make or how the competitive scene might be in the following years. "

because sc2 communities are nonexistent, right? and it doesn't have a huge following already, and every single one of blizzard games hasn't become competitive games that lasts decades, right? keep on lying to yourself, kid. whatever helps you sleep better at night. "

"kid" Hah. Says the dude with a cartoon avatar. Breaking news for you: you don't know dick about competitive starcraft, the game is not even out yet and the Blizzard you think you know died a while ago. "

While it could be a piracy thing, it is odd.  
 
Having said that, isn't it pretty much Starcraft? It's not exactly re-imaging the franchise so why would they be scared of the reviews. It's pretty much guaranteed to get solid review scores.  
  
A piracy concern makes more sense, a review copy goes out and some fool scum puts it on a torrent site. Happened so many times with PC games I can totally understand Blizzard for doing this. I would say it is due to piracy, 

" @rhodric said:

" @Detrian said:

" You don't get it man I've won like 20 games I'm super pro so I can say that starcraft 2 is perfect and will be the competitive game of the decade even if I have no fucking idea of any future changes that Blizzard might make or how the competitive scene might be in the following years. "

because sc2 communities are nonexistent, right? and it doesn't have a huge following already, and every single one of blizzard games hasn't become competitive games that lasts decades, right? keep on lying to yourself, kid. whatever helps you sleep better at night. "

"kid" Hah. Says the dude with a cartoon avatar. Breaking news for you: you don't know dick about competitive starcraft, the game is not even out yet and the Blizzard you think you know died a while ago. "

"A piracy concern makes more sense, a review copy goes out and some fool scum puts it on a torrent site. Happened so many times with PC games I can totally understand Blizzard for doing this. I would say it is due to piracy,  "

Maybe bobby kotick doesn't want to spend the cash on the stamps it takes to send out review copies. He's trying to maxiumize profit.

" @Semition said:

The Blizzard that died along time ago had pretty much nothing to do with competitive Starcraft... "

Except that thing about "patching" and all that jazz.  "

" @Semition said:

The Blizzard that died along time ago had pretty much nothing to do with competitive Starcraft... "

Except that thing about "patching" and all that jazz. 
 
@rhodric said:

aww isn't that cute. the kid resorts to petty insults. whatever helps you sleep better at night, kid. :) "

Oooh look at the gangsta, didn't even play starcraft when it came out and he thinks he is representing. "

Here's a review : Its starcraft 1 with better graphics and a few updated gameplay tweaks and the new battlenet, everyone and theyre moms are gonna give this game 9.5/10.
 
And I won't play it cause I don't give a damn about RTSes.

It's pretty much guaranteed a success based on pedigree alone, doesn't matter if the game is good or not they have a huge community and don't really need review scores to help sales for the game.  Nobody cares too much about the single player anyways so review outlets didn't really need an advanced copy of the game since they had a beta of the multiplayer to look at.

Blizzard aren't confident in Starcraft 2 because they aren't sending review copies?
Nah, I don't think so.

...so what we fighting about now?  I had to get lunch for a couple hours, and I don't feel like reading a lot of text.   
 
We still fighting or did we make up?

They don't want anyone spoiling it, they know the game is good.

I'm sure this has been mentioned already, but maybe they're doing this so that reviewers will actually have some people to play against in what is the most important mode of the game.

When you think about it, a day 1 review wouldn't actually be appropriate for Starcraft 2. At the end of the day, 90% of the value in SC2 is its multiplayer, and the multiplayer cannot be properly reviewed until the game is out. Trying to review the game before then would be irresponsible.

It's just the way their installer and battle.net service is set up. It has a date check and needs an activation key from blizzard to install. Though I wouldn't doubt it if someone at Giant Bomb got sent a pre-release copy by Bob.

" I'm sure this has been mentioned already, but maybe they're doing this so that reviewers will actually have some people to play against in what is the most important mode of the game. "

" When you think about it, a day 1 review wouldn't actually be appropriate for Starcraft 2. At the end of the day, 90% of the value in SC2 is its multiplayer, and the multiplayer cannot be properly reviewed until the game is out. Trying to review the game before then would be irresponsible. "

"  I wouldn't be surprised if they just base their multiplayer review off of that, since the it isn't going to change much going from end-of-beta to release. "

" You don't get it man I've won like 20 games I'm super pro so I can say that starcraft 2 is perfect and will be the competitive game of the decade even if I have no fucking idea of any future changes that Blizzard might make or how the competitive scene might be in the following years. "

Because no matter how amazing an RTS and engine SC2 is, a masterpiece of online tournaments and tactics, there will always be a small amount of people who find themselves disliking it. Even that small percentage may be seen by the huge number of people that are anticipating SC2, and rather risk any sort of pre release bias, they make it so NO ONE can play before next Tuesday, reviewers and consumers alike.

It could be a lot of things, but it is most definitely not that Blizzard isn't confident in there game. Blizzard wouldn't release it until they felt it's ready, so if it's coming out, then they are ready for it to come out. At least that's how I feel. But I don't need a review to help sway my vote either...

we really need reviews to tell us that "hey its starcraft, remember the first one? That was pretty k this one is pretty much the same but has better graphics."

" @KaosAngel: Or maybe they played some modern RTSs and think SC2 feels archaic in some ways. I mean, rushes still work. There's still not really a great defense against it. Like, if you go into a 2v2 or 3v3 against a team of Zerg, and they all decide to rush, you're going to lose. Even if you build a series of bases near each other and surround it with bunkers or something. Same old shit still works, I don't care what contrived nuance high tier players have given the game. If it were really so expertly balanced, I wouldn't have been downloading a new patching every other day during the beta. You thought the game was perfect before they even put the first patch up, so obviously your idea of perfection is flawed. Just sayin. "

screw gamespot. I listened to that very podcast and was disgusted at how console bias Tom was. He put the game down at every turn and said "no one buys pc games anymore" and "everyone will just pirate it" Very disgusting for a professional reviews site. He even went as far as to say it will "be blizzards first flop".
 
Screw gamespot.

" screw gamespot. I listened to that very podcast and was disgusted at how console bias Tom was. He put the game down at every turn and said "no one buys pc games anymore" and "everyone will just pirate it" Very disgusting for a professional reviews site. He even went as far as to say it will "be blizzards first flop".  Screw gamespot. "

" Who ever gives SC2 a score lower than an aggregate of 90%, will get the shit flamed out of them.  Going on TL, and Kpop Forums...it's pretty much confident that this will be the RTS for the next 10 years.  Reviewers might hit it for being too hard, or "being the same", but in reality...SC2 is the perfect RTS.  Having been in the beta since March, I can say this (along with GT5) are the only two games I even care about in 2010 and 2011.    "

Day 1 purchase for me. The beta was superb, except for the annoying server issues/lag but that's expected in every beta.