"Blizzard is spear-heading its approach to Community Fansites and fans in 2008. It's going full-throttle with a internal Developer video podcast which will bring you interviews with Starcraft 2 and Wrath of the Lich King developers, fansite community interaction with developers, as well as fansite Q&A on video."
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Everyone knows how popular StarCraft II is and it seems these numbers will convince you all the more. In one month alone, Blizzard Entertainment has reportedly sold over 3 million copies of the latest real-time strategy game taking the world by storm. Analysts expect StarCraft II to hit 7 million copies this year. And from the first month sales alone, it wouldn't be surprising if the game goes over that forecast.
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In a follow up to the WoW Twitter Developer Chats, Blizzard recently hosted a similar Q&A for Starcraft 2. And in this Twitter Q&A it was revealed that the studio is working on a Mac version of the Starcraft 2 Beta that will be released “sometime in April”.
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IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that StarCraft® II: Wings of Liberty™ achieved a day-one sales milestone of more than 1 million copies sold worldwide, making it the best-selling PC game of 2010 within its first 24 hours of availability.* The game went on to sell a total of more than 1.5 million copies in its first 48 hours, setting the record for fastest-selling strategy game of all time.*
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Early data is in and it looks like StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has become the fastest-selling game of 2010 to date and one of the fastest-selling PC games of all time. VGChartz estimates that around 1.8 million units of the game were sold on day 1 across the Americas and Europe including both physical retail sales and Battle.net download sales. The number of players in Korea playing the game on day 1 could be as high at 3-4 million but only Blizzard will know for sure.
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Given that the ESRB granted "StarCraft 2" a T for Teen rating, it may have come as a surprise to some when South Korea's Games Ratings Board rated the game 18+. Blizzard appealed the rating, however, and now says their sequel, which "World of Warcraft"-subscribing Koreans will play for free, has been granted a 12+ rating instead.
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Blizzard is doing something pretty unusual by launching the game at the same time in North America, Europe and South Korea, ensuring the biggest possible impact for the release. The developer also stated that it planned to offer a digitally distributed version of its new title shortly after reaching stores.
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Blizzard and Facebook have struck a deal, which will integrate the social network into Blizzard’s Battle.net service. That means players of “Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty” will be able to find Facebook friends who are also on Battle.net, making it easier to play a game with them.
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You know all those summer plans you have? Well StarCraft 2's first piece -- the human-based Wings of Liberty -- was just given a July 27 release date for "stores throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Mexico, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau." What, no Kyrgyzstan?
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It appears that StarCraft II will be losing one of the franchise's most popular features. In an interview with IncGamers, Rob Pardo, VP of game design indicated that LAN would not be supported for the upcoming RTS sequel. "We will not support it," he said. Instead, the only multiplayer for the game will be found through Battle.Net, Blizzard's online service that is currently being redesigned.
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