[DaBrain]

Unlike the Valve guys who dared to screw up HL1 multiplayer by adding Steam, and multiple other creators/publishers, which do not take care of older products, Blizzard seems to care about their old games and their customers.

They are going to release a rather big patch for StarCraft, which is really old.
www.blizzard.com

Why are there no other companies which do something like that?


I never felt ripped off after buying a Blizzard game.

[Flipside]

LucasArts are pretty good as well for supporting older products, but yes, game patches/fixes and updates are like hardware patches/drivers etc. As soon as your hardware is no longer 'recent' there is no interest in keeping them up to date.

Creative are the worst hardware manufacturer for doing this btw.


Edit : Dammit! Even the forum is ignoring me now! The main page says the lats post in this thread was UT, and so does the Forum page

[Unknown Target]

Because Blizzard only has old games. All their new ones aren't anywhere near as ground breaking.

Practically all of Blizzard's legacy is built on Starcraft.

[Nuke]

indeed, probibly has to do with the fact that they are still selling copies of the game. pretty much anything blizzard does is cool. i love the cutscenes in that game. f***in halarious. i just wich theyd make starcraft 2, using the wc3 engine of course

[Liberator]

Why waste time with the WC3 engine?  Licence Source or the Doom 3 engine and prove that a beautiful game can be made with it without treating you're user base like a bunch of criminals.

[Unknown Target]

Doom 3 or Source for a strategy game?

That's a really dumb ****ing idea.

[Falcon]

[phatosealpha]

I'm under the impression the sole reason they keep releasing patches for starcraft is because it's still huge in Korea.  Think they may still get  royalties or something from Korean cybercafes which have starcraft (and I get the feeling that's like, all of them).

[Taristin]

Starcraft > all other games of it's genre.

[MatthewPapa]

YES, I LOVE THIS GAME.

And your right, there arent many other companies that would spend money on such an old game (1998)

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by Nuke
indeed, probibly has to do with the fact that they are still selling copies of the game.

When did the last Diablo 1 patch come out?




I just refuse to belive that it's all about money.
If you create a great game, you just have to love it.

[Taristin]

I was playing it this morning. It's such a dynamic game. While the original story absolutely was lame, the multiplayer scene and the use map settings feature really changes the game enough to breathe new life into it, and to keep things exciting.

[Cyker]

Yup. The only modern RTS I've played that even comes close to StarCraft is the WH40k game, but SC beats it senseless in terms of story, music voice acting, and general polish.

I desperately want an SC2, but I know that whatever they do it'll fall short of my expectations and therefore suck.

WC3 definitely did.

Flipside: Are we talking about the same LucasArts here? The only patches I've ever gotten from them are ones to fix really stupid bugs that people discover 2 days after launch date...!

[Janos]

Here's a quick summary of RTS games so far:

C&C: Build and rush!
WC2: Build and rush!
SC: try to be more tactical, think oh ****, RUSH THEM and get slaughtered
WC3: Jesus Christ all those colors I can't see **** WTF WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO MY ENTIRE ARMY what is that glowing thingie argh stalemate
Empire Earth: NUCLEAR BOMBER HOLOCAUST rush
WH40k: goddamn stalemate (Haven't played this one too much yet)
AoE/AoK: pure sex trebuchet masses
Everything else: hi guyz i'm special i ride the short bus plz notice me

[Unknown Target]

Homeworld whooped SC's ass, IMHO.

[DaBrain]

Homeworld was nice, but way to complex.

It can't compete with StarCraft if you ask me.

[Grey Wolf]

In my opinion, Battle for Middle Earth is a better game than AoE2. Haven't really played SC, though, so no judgement there...

[.::Tin Can::.]

I thought Warcraft III was pretty fun, but Starcraft was just a lot better and just a lot more fun. I loved it.

[Corsair]

Homeworld is just much more involved than StarCraft. They're sort of different genres, I think.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by DaBrain

I just refuse to belive that it's all about money.
If you create a great game, you just have to love it.

Someone has to pay the coders bills.......