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You can apparently now pre-order on Amazon as well and will receive a key to the beta from them.  Unless you hate them too. 

I blame it on Viviendi Games. (one up me now biatches   )

I just got the beta yesterday from pre-ordering the game. Wow this game is alot faster than what i remember it. Played a couple of games and place in bronze. The music on this is pretty awesome, especially the terran soundtracks. The zerg and protoss also have good music.

Aw... My 'puter got keylogged and now there's someone else's authenticator on my SC2 Beta battle.net account.

Na, I've listened to enough WoW podcasts to know that blizz support is quite good about these things; one of the best in the business in fact. I should get it back well before the middle of the week when I finally have time to play again. They have 12 hour a day, 7 days a week support, with a help section online dedicated to what to do when your account gets haxx0rd. And since the accounts use your email address as the log in info, it isn't too terribly difficult for them to set things straight.

I just hope whoever hacked my account didn't drive down my SC2 rating down too much further than my 4:5 win:loss ratio already has.

Okay... SC2 multiplayer is not my thing. Don't like how units are massed. Don't like the units themselves. Don't like how damn repetive the game is. For some reason i do like FPS multiplayer games (Well, console ones, Halos mainly, BFBC2) despite them being repetive too.

I hate the practice league (after the profile wipes, i'm playing them again. Don't want to skip them since they're on normal speed and Fastest is way too fast for me) since the "novice" maps are horrible. What's the point in preventing rushes? I mean, can't train to play against them if they can't be done. At least the way they're prevented sucks.

Oh, and i hate rushing too. Hated Warcraft 3's gameplay in Bnet since every frigging game was a rush. Good thing in WC3 was that there massing one unit didn't seem to exists as it does in SC2. But on the other hand, i hated the hero microing and tabbing beetween casters. Partially this was due the game speed, i'm simply not fast enough to react to things in RTSes (but fast in enough in FPSes... wtf?)

I don't like playing 2v2 or higher either. I don't like depending on a random person. And my friend's a bit better player than me so i don't really like playing with him, too large skill gap.

I look forward to the campaign but the multiplayer? Going to pass it. It simply doesn't hold any appeal to me anymore...

Actually, you can do the practice matches w/o novice maps. IIRC, there is a button which lets you choose which type of map you prefer. That or it depends on an option you chose at the start... Can't quite remember. (still waiting on blizz to get me my h4x0red account back )

As for rushing, I've played terran, so they haven't been much of a problem for me. Yay double supply depot and barracks block. From what I've experienced (keep in mind I'm in bronze league though), rushes really aren't a problem if you aren't being too stupid with your build order. A rush stretegy will put their econ a good deal behind yours, and depending on how far their units have to run, may only end up getting them slaughtered by your superior tech. Once the initial rush is killed, their econ will usually be pretty low, allowing you to out econ them and/or send a counterattack to harrass their mineral lines. As terran, a cloaked banshee or two works well for that against most players.

When it comes to the speed, that is part of what makes starcraft such a fun game. Unlike a slower game, it makes you think as quickly as possible, and a big part of it is trying not to panic. It isn't reaction time like an FPS, but rather how fast you can analyze a situation and implement a plan to counter any problems.

I would have to agree with you on 2v2 and higher; I personally think there are way too many variables out of the control of each player unless both teams are sitting in the same room as their teammates. They aren't even that fun to watch on shoutcasts since there is so much going on. It magnifies the weaknesses of the teams, making the games short and rather one sided.

will this game be sold on impulse??  Yes, we can get it from our local Gamestop/EB games, or probably Steam.  But seriously, not being on impulse seems sooo wrong.

It's not on Steam either. Blizzard doesn't sell games through third party digital distribution. Or for that matter through DD at all until after the game is out. You can't even buy it from Blizzard, their order page sends you to stores. Wrath of the Lich King was the same way. (Though after you register a copy, you can redownload from the Blizzard store, and stuff goes on sale there after it's been out a while.)

Seems like the retailers like that arrangement, they get all the day 1 foot traffic in the store. Blizzard doesn't give any money to Valve, so they're pretty happy. It'd be a huge coup of Impulse got Starcraft 2, but it doesn't look like Blizzard's interested.