If that is the case, then Red Alert 3 should be more famous than Starcraft 2. Red Alert 3 was balanced, and supported with patches for a long while.

On top of that, Red Alert 3 had many great ideas and implementations, among them an increased focus on naval battles, a refined rock-paper-scissors unit countering system, an easier resource collecting system, etc. From what i see from youtube, Starcraft II boasts none of that. In fact, Starcraft II is really a stepback from Warcraft III in terms of gameplay.

Yet, there were many l33t tards who always found things to biatch about 'how EA ruined Red Alert', or how 'Westwood CnC was better.' To a lot of people, the exceptional quality of the game seemed irrelevant compared to EA's bad reputation.

I guess at some point EA had enough with all the whining and said, "Okay fine, you pricks think we're an evil soulless corporation out to destroy your games for profit, well fine, have it your own way. Here's CnC4."

Haha .. if u can wait for SC3 .. then SC2 will only be USD9.99 .. and then u can go ahead n buy it ... nobody will stop u 

honestly, the reason why i liked starcraft is maybe beacuse its the first every strategy game that i played, so i cant say that im a fan ~~

and i wasnt really that disappointed with SCII, the game itself didn't just evolve into 3D, new units new skills also create a new gameplay

plus if they would make big leap from starcraft 1, it would make the game complicated and fans might just start running away

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and by the way blizzard is allowing players from SEA, australia, new zealand to join the us server without extra charges.