Starcraft 2

So I pre-ordered Starcraft 2 from Amazon for $60. The price is a little high but after 10 years since the original, the game was going to be super awesome. With all the hype and possibilities of Blizzard charging $60 for each portion of the storyline (Terran, Protoss, Zerg), I thought that this was going to HAVE to be a very remarkable game.

My beta key comes, I install, play.... My initial impression of SC2 is that it takes at least as long as the original to get your base started and start making units, and it just feels THE SAME. You rush or you get into a boring turtley game. Totally disappointed. Honestly, over the past few years they've put up movies and hyped the game, but it really doesn't feel like they put much thought or work into this. If this really releases in 2 months, it's not going to be good.

Heroes of Newerth, on the other hand, just barely released two days ago. I'd been playing that beta for over 6 months and since the first day HoN seemed twice as polished as SC2 seems now.

Thankfully, Amazon let me cancel my pre-order. At this point I don't think I'm going to be willing to pay more than $20 for this garbage, and definitely not $180. I guess a miracle can still happen, but Blizzard is getting way too greedy. The sad thing is that I know exactly what they will do. People will buy the first third of the single-player game, and Blizzard will assure us that we will always be able to play even if we don't buy the next installment. But what they won't tell you is that you'll only be playing with other people who didn't buy it. And then they'll do it at least one more time, and all of the multiplayer units that should have been in the game from the start, we'll have to wait for. And Blizzard is so used to the little fanboys eating out of their hand that they will do exactly this. And they will totally get away with it. For now, I'm going to wait.