My impression, based on what I've heard, is that it is on the table, just still getting organized. My impression is that Blizzard is trying to do a TON of stuff, but doesn't have the manpower. At least, if one looks at their career page, it has a long list of openings.
Yes. For arcade, which expansion you have is no longer relevant, both for mapmakers/modders and for players.
The way it will work is:
Buy nothing -> Get access to Arcade, Custom Games, and Team Game (as long as someone in party owns the game, and it will be played at the party leaders expansion setting)
Buy any expansion -> Publish Arcade maps, using any asset
Buy a specific expansion -> Play on that expansion campaign and 1v1 ladder.
So the only people who will have to care about the expansion they buy is people who want to play a specific campaign or play on a specific 1v1 ladder (which usually ends up being the last release one, so I imagine Void will be the only place for 1v1 ladder).
If it is any consolation, the prologue missions are legitmately difficult. Tried doing brutal right off the bat, and gave up after 5 tries on the first mission. AI was nasty, if they got past my defenses, they started focus firing down each of my production facilities, targeting ones of higher value first (killed my robo bay, then destroyed warpgates until I killed them). One time, due to my poor play, the went straight for my nexus, and even though I brought troops in, they continued to focus it down until it was dead.
It was a little buried in the pre order announcement, but they have unlocked all expansions, you need only purchase one of them to have access to and publish with any asset from any expansion. So no division, if anything, unification. At this point, the only reason to buy any particular expansion is to access the campaign itself and the associated 1v1 ladder. The arcade and most of the game is free to play.
@TyaArcade: Go
My impression, based on what I've heard, is that it is on the table, just still getting organized. My impression is that Blizzard is trying to do a TON of stuff, but doesn't have the manpower. At least, if one looks at their career page, it has a long list of openings.
@KorvinGump: Go
Yes. For arcade, which expansion you have is no longer relevant, both for mapmakers/modders and for players.
The way it will work is:
Buy nothing -> Get access to Arcade, Custom Games, and Team Game (as long as someone in party owns the game, and it will be played at the party leaders expansion setting)
Buy any expansion -> Publish Arcade maps, using any asset
Buy a specific expansion -> Play on that expansion campaign and 1v1 ladder.
So the only people who will have to care about the expansion they buy is people who want to play a specific campaign or play on a specific 1v1 ladder (which usually ends up being the last release one, so I imagine Void will be the only place for 1v1 ladder).
@DeltaCadimus: Go
If it is any consolation, the prologue missions are legitmately difficult. Tried doing brutal right off the bat, and gave up after 5 tries on the first mission. AI was nasty, if they got past my defenses, they started focus firing down each of my production facilities, targeting ones of higher value first (killed my robo bay, then destroyed warpgates until I killed them). One time, due to my poor play, the went straight for my nexus, and even though I brought troops in, they continued to focus it down until it was dead.
@KorvinGump: Go
It was a little buried in the pre order announcement, but they have unlocked all expansions, you need only purchase one of them to have access to and publish with any asset from any expansion. So no division, if anything, unification. At this point, the only reason to buy any particular expansion is to access the campaign itself and the associated 1v1 ladder. The arcade and most of the game is free to play.
For once, going to dig into the AI of the prologue maps, it is actually hard and nasty, at least from my (rather low skill) point of view.