Warcraft III Gone Gold

0x00 writes "Shacknews seems to be the first to report that Warcraft III has gone gold. The press release is here. Blizzard have announced that the game will be available July 3rd around the world - just in time for my mid-year University break (great timing!)." Update: 06/13 15:16 GMT by M : Please consider the fact that Blizzard is suing people who write software to interoperate with theirs when deciding whether you want to purchase this game.

Warcraft vs. Neverwinter Nights

[theEdgeSMAK]

Hmm... I know which one works with my os.. do you?

Re:StarCraft 2

[cicatrix1]

In a video interview with Bill Roper (the guy in charge of Blizzard), he said that they have not started work on Starcraft 2, but they would love to do more games in that universe. He also said that when Warcraft III is complete it would be one of their ideas for things to do next. Personally, I can't really see what they would do next if not this. . .

It's no Dungeon Seige

[Control-Z]

I got a chance to see the beta at a friend's house.

Yes, it's 3d, but compared to a 3d engine like Dungeon Seige, Warcraft 3's engine and it's camera control scheme sucks.

And the gameplay isn't a heck of a lot different than Warcraft 2. You now have heroes, which are pretty cool, and you can queue your production. You can set a rallying point that new units will move to automatically. But the basics of building as much as you can as fast as you can still stand.

Maybe I'm just tired of the RTS genre...

Can beta testers chime in?

[Salden]

Will I have more fun playing this game than I did and still do playing Starcraft or is it just prettier. I think Blizzard games are great but I think they're about due for a flop (not in sales, just in longevity). It's clear that this game will sell.

Runs perfect in WineX

[brunes69]

Just a heads up, I have been running the Warcraft III Beta under WineX [sf.net] now for months. It runs full speed (since the graphics use my X servers OpenGL driver), and is flawless as far as I can tell - mu ch better performance and compatability than Starcraft.

Check out Apple's Preview

[toupsie]

Apple is running some dedicated pages to Warcraft III [apple.com] which will be Blizzard's first game simultaneously shipped for Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, and Windows on the same CD. Sorry Linux guys, you are going to have to boot into Windows or MacOS 9. I can't remember the last time a major gaming company released the Mac version of a game the same time they released the Windows version.

P.S. What another boycott? Jeez! If I followed all of these boycotts, I wouldn't be able to turn on my computer. Sorry guys, Blizzard supporting Mac at the same level of Windows is more important to me than open source game servers.

-1, Pedantic

[LMCBoy]

Of course, the Sun is actually white, almost by definition. People think it's yellow because they usually see it when it's low in the sky near the horizon, which causes its color to be significantly reddened [aspsky.org]
by its long path length through the gas and dust of our atmosphere.

Re:why not give the money to the EFF instead

[L0rdJedi]

It may be $64.95 list, but I have yet to see anyone selling preorders for more than $59.95. Also, the collector's edition includes the soundtrack (now on a separate disk), a coffee table book, 4 lithographs(?) (probably the 4 different covers of the game) and something else. In all, the collector's edition is well worth the price.

Blizzard can have my money if..

[ThoreauHD]

1. The have a linux native version.
2. The allow people to run servers under linux.
3. They pull their head out of DX's ass.

That's it.