Blizzard being unoriginal

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Ready to pay more money for HD games you used to own blizzgoys ?
That would be the only way to get proper multiplayer for starcraft 1 anyway, you know you can't play alone.
Come on, these new sprites are great, cough up some dough, blizzard is the greatest game company after all.

Most of what you are saying sits on the idea that they will be paid, but that's a shaky foundation since it hasn't been confirmed to be paid in any way.

Given that AoE2 HD came out and sold somewhat decently, why would blizz release this for free ?

Why port their old games like lost vikings and blackthorne to windows and not sell them on android?

They might at some point, but this is about starcraft in particular.
That said the whole company is so very out of touch, that you have to wonder what goes on in their heads.

What if its a free upgrade? You're assuming it's paid.

What is wrong with you guys ?
Were AoE2 HD and Heroes 3 HD not enough proof that ancient games can be sold again after a few sprite changes ?

Why would blizzard release this for free ? More people for SC2 ?
Oldfags who were really into sc1 didn't want to move to sc2.

Also how many people do you believe keep their original SC discs from 18 years ago?

Please don't make the original a death ball game too

Is this why I got a DMCA notice for seeding WCIII?

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Blizzard still sells Warcraft III, so that's probably why.
Was getting caught part of your plan?

don't forget that AOE2HD runs horribly in comparison to the original
all for a bit of fancier water that most people turn off anyways

I believe the terrain in HD is polygonal rather than sprites

But those that bought AOE2HD have the honor of experiencing the African Kingdoms.

i'll be honest, i loved the forgotten
vlad campaign and slavs in general are such a blessing
still, the performance is dogshit

>Was getting caught part of your plan?
There's only 1 isp in this area and using appropriate settings for anonymous torrenting yields no peers

I don't mind the forgotten either. wasn't it originally a mod for the original AOE2?

What ?
They do that ? WC3 is 14 years old.

Bunch of cowards

why would starcraft ever need a visual update
it still looks solid even today, barring the 3d videos which haven't aged particularly well
some very minor qol shit, mostly multiple building selection/binding, would be nice but if you go all out like SC2 did you get a game centered almost entirely around macro
furthermore they're going to 100% fuck up BattleNet 1.0's style and functionality like they did with "BattleNet 2.0" and the mapmaking community will never be revived
better yet they go here's new mapmaking tools we're gutting everything the first had and now your maps belong to us :^^^ also here's persistent ID's and a """popular maps""" list

They'd do the same with Diablo 2 as well, and I know D2 is still being supported and patched.
They doubt they would with Diablo 1, because they no longer sell it.

"HD Remake" = Add 1080p support and apply a filter. Calling it.

What? Do you mean to tell me that they're supposed to put some effort into it?
Don't you know how much all those sprites cost?

Looks like Blizzard is desperate for money. Did SC2 underperformed that bad or something else happened?


Guess Blizzard is that desperate for money, this would make no sense otherwise. It's like wasting time and resources on hunting down Overwatch porn.


Don't know if I should be happy that they don't touch first Diablo, the game natively doesn't support modern OSes but on the other hand less money for Blizzard.

did fine but not with the budget and compared to SC:BW it was a disaster
Overwatch did well but didn't make mad cash like they wanted so they've been doing emergency improvements, Heroes of the Storm did horribly for the budget behind it, Diablo 3 broke even at best
Blizzard's not doing so good.

They're still releasing patches for it and plan to move it to bnet 2.0.

it's just a korena bootleg company

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I'll put my money on new sprites that are worse and don't have any of the old charm.

To be fair, you can hardly play anything except ranked 1v1 matches due to bots and port forwarding nonsense that you have to do.

Although they'll probably shit it up with something.

Fuck this industry

How the fuck did overwatch not do well?

Legacy of the void killed starcraft already, I'm no afraid of ghosts.

They preferred to suck Kerrigan's dick one more time instead of doing an epic ending to the saga.

I miss Overmind so much…

They have high res models of every unit already because of SC2. It'd be trivial to export them as sprites.

They really do need to keep the mechanics the same. Can I still kite with vultures by maintaining a particular angle of movement, for example?

Overmind was a good boy he dindu nuffin wrong

I really expect they put African kingdoms as playable races in Starcraft HD this time.

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I never played the original and I never intend to, it's too old and outdated now. I look forward to pirating this

15 million is pocket change to modern AAA. Also it's been bleeding players like crazy with each month.

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Diablo 1 doesn't even have a CD key you just install it.

name 5 buy to play online games that did better, I dare you fgt

That's what I thought and this is very good, I hope they keep losing money. Too bad they're not on the level of Capcom which lost shitton of money and Activision finally kill them.

Marketing for this piece of shit was insane, bigger than for FO4. Besides this is bullshit about 15 million players, it's like believing that FO4 sold over 12 million copies.

Truth is, when company going re-release cashgrabs route, it has financial problems. Why do you think Bethesda is doing Skyrim re-release? FO4 clearly wasn't profitable enough, you can just look at DLCs alone for this trash. Or look at 2K which lost shitton of money thanks to Evolve and Stillborn, they're doing Bioshit re-release not just because. The best example is of course Capcom, their newest cashgrab Dead Rising port is happening because Umbrella Corps and SF5 were disaster, especially the former which was literally dead on arrival.

Well protoss already build pyramids, so

I don't think any did better. Doesn't mean it's not still pocket change.

Ding ding ding. Modern AAA games have absolutely insane marketing budgets, usually several times the size of the actual developmental budget.

The sad part is that most of the time, it still turns a profit due to the sheer amount of morons who buy into hype.

Yes, and the new expansion will focus on the rightful owners of pyramid buildings.

The protoss stole their magical KhalaFC powers.

It had the most insane marketing you could imagine, I don't even remember last time I saw this amount of ads and shilling for any video game, not sure if I can compare it to movie marketing campaign size honestly.

See it that way, if they continue wasting their money on absolutely insane marketing campaigns, they going to lose money even more horribly.

Wonder if they'll remove the confederate flags.

Yeah, but this works because Capcom has :
1. A good amount of IP's missing from the PC marketplace
2. Does quality porting work that should be an industry wide baseline

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Oh God, I didn't even think of that.

You know what would be really nice?

If old BW maps were compatable with SCHD. The new release to revitalize the multiplayer, probably a revamp of the bnet system (probably sc2 levels of terrible, but we can dream), and all the old maps complete with the old mapmaking tools still technically working. Could be a dream come true really.

Kind of a tangent but, if you have the original AoE 2 disc you can install it then download voobly which updates it to HD for free so you can play online.

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If you tell them they will. I doubt they know about it yet.

Not an argument.

That's not much of an argument either, faggot. Good job proving yourself to be an invalid that doesn't know how to defend his own position when it's called into doubt and just using the "NOT AN ARGUMENT" fallacy.

I was the guy you originally tried to argue with. ID's are there for a reason.

Other games doing better or worse has no relevance to Overwatche's profit.

You are a stupid, angry faggot.

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i can't believe there are people in this thread gullible enough to think Blizzard would rerelease a game for free.