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StarCraft II hits the big time on the PC
TIME SUCKING real time strategy (RTS) game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is the biggest launch of the year in PC gaming.
It was always going to be big. Gamers have been waiting for over ten years for part two of the game, which has already been decreed as the best thing to hit PC gaming since the original StarCraft. That game went down a storm when it was first released so expectations were at fever pitch.
There is also not much in the way of competition since PC gaming is all but dead, thanks mainly to developers moving to consoles, happy to deliver rubbish PC ports or a stripped down PC gaming experience.
At least the developers of StarCraft II stuck it to console fanbois by resolutely sticking to their guns and launching a triple A title on PC only. I mean, can you imagine a decent RTS game on a console? Are you some kind of muppet?
The game has shifted 1.5 million copies in 48 hours, making it the bestselling PC game of 2010 and the fastest-selling RTS game ever. Console gaming fans, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
"We launched StarCraft II in 11 different languages and on 5 different continents because we wanted to make sure as many players as possible were able to log on and play on day one," said Blizzard Entertainment executive Mike Morhaime.
"We're pleased that so many people around the world have already picked up a copy of the game, and we look forward to welcoming even more players to Battle.net in the weeks and months ahead." µ
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"There's enough feedback flying around the web to know this isn't a once-off. It's frustrating given that the fix is simple and it's been known since Beta."
Overheating and subsequent dieing of CPU/GPU is never fault of the software.
If your hardware can't handle being used in top performance continuously how on earth it could be the fault of software? Thats the freaking first reason benchmarks sometimes are made to run *long* periods with 100% CPU/GPU utilization, including NVidia's own benchmarking softwares.
Secondly it would be immensely difficult to write programs if it were other way around, I mean if programmer were required to check temperatures and make some sort of restrictions on rendering algorithms based on this.
God dammit, programming should be taught along side ABC... such a fundamental thinking error to think that high-level software were responsible of hardware failure. Low level software could probably easily break stuff but that is different matter.
Folks
I'm not sure if you're aware that Starcraft II is cooking graphics cards? I wasn't either until a few days after I loaded SCII and my $600 card died.
The local shop said it was likely to be caused by heat, and so a little investigation later and I discover it's a known problem (since Beta). http://www.tomshardware.com/news/starcraft-overheating,10984.html
There's enough feedback flying around the web to know this isn't a once-off. It's frustrating given that the fix is simple and it's been known since Beta.
Anyway, thought you might like to warn other readers and hopefully save them the cost of a new graphics card.
Regards Zac
Yep, i love it. The new starcraft is great (except for no lan support).
I hope developers start making new games for PCs and port them to consoles (instead of the other way around).
Actually, they're going to release missions for each race separately. If blizzard has their way it'll be 2 more years at least before you get to finish the game.
I'm not that impressed with it. Sure it's starcraft, but it seems to me more like they just took all the elements of modern RTS games and put them into Starcraft. Not having LAN support is also a big downer.
I'm not saying that it's a bad game, just that it most certainly does not deserve it's $60US price at this point in time.
Just completed the campaign, and I'd say - even if you're not into the multiplayer business, this game is worth it! The only drawback is the complete lack of Zerg missions for which we'll have to wait another year and a half.
Players are still learning the new tactics so now is the best time for everyone to get into the game.
Oh, and thank you Blizzard (and your beloved BNET II) for leaking my mail address to the phisher crowd. Pff...
This game is awesome, the best RTS of all time! And I've played many.
Mind you looking forward to Two Worlds II (PC) that should be great too!