What does this mean for the WoW player? Well, it means that if you were expecting the focus of BlizzCon, or one of the focuses of BlizzCon, to be a StarCraft II release date, you'd be incorrect. StarCraft II was never officially dated - only an on-the-sly indication - and multiple financial sites have reported the now-official release date as the first half of 2010 following this announcement and Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financial report. Since the new BNet will be part of every new Blizzard game from here on in - including World of Warcraft, as players with BNet accounts have seen - it's vital that the service be working properly before the game's release. Starcraft 1 release date: March, 1998 Brood War release date: November, 1998 Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos release date: July, 2002 Warcraft 3 The Frozen Time release date: July, 2003 SC2 wings of liberty release. They'll milk warcraft to hell before we get another starcraft. The release cited the massive amount of work necessary to overhaul Blizzard's online matchmaking service,, as the main culprit for the delay. StarCraft 3 isn't going to be a thing until VR is super mainstream, MMW.

In an official press release, Blizzard announced today that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, the first installment of the Starcraft II trilogy, previously indicated to be released in the last quarter of this year, is delayed to the first half of 2010.

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