StarCraft 2 Not This Year

Blizzard game designer Rob Pardo has confirmed that StarCraft II will not be released this year. “The only thing I can give you [that's] concrete is it’s not going to be this year,” he told MSNBC. “Some people were hoping, because of how advanced the game looks, that we’d have it out by Christmas, but that’s definitely not happening.”

Apparently, the company uses a different design philosophy than other game designers: “Different companies have different philosophies on how long they spend on products,” he said. “We’re able to do that because we have smaller teams and we give ourselves time to iterate through the product…You see a lot of companies that are so focused on the release date that they put 100-person, 200-person teams together to hit that date, and at that point you’re really the runaway train. You have to hit that date and live with decisions that you might not have been 100 percent happy with. We take the opposite approach.”

So, it’s going to be released “once it’s done”. There you have it.