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> > > > > > Sad 343 is ignoring THE largest thread on the HW2 forum.
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> > > > > I d i d n o t i n t e n d f o r t h i s t o h a p p e nBut eh, I’ll reiterate a point I made…some number of pages ago, which others have posted since;
> > > > > A discount to Season Pass owners seems like a fair compromise for the confusion caused; I’m glad that 343 have acknowledged the murkiness of the situation in the community update, but I also couldn’t agree more with people who think 343 needs to extend olive-branches at every chance they get these days.
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> > > > It’s sad because Halo Wars 2 campaign feels so sparse overall, especially with the ending clearly intending a sequel or tie in with how huge of a cliffhanger it was. 7 cutscenes for 12 missions when we got a cutscene after every mission in HW 1.
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> > > > Meanwhile Halo Wars 2’ campaign isn’t robust or extremely well written to begin with yet the real campaign expansion we have to pay for, yet as far as I can tell it probably won’t add much considering there’s 2 cinematics apparently and 7 missions. How is that going to bring the flood back in anywhere near a satisfactory way? Yet we’re expected to pay $20 for it. I don’t even think it earns a $20 price tag given how mediocre HW 2’s campaign was even if we ignore 343’s current mishap.
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> > > Most cut-scenes in HW1 felt redundant and/or something which could have been translated into the gameplay.
> > > If I’m not mistaken, some 70-80% of the discspace was for cutscenes.
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> > > While we’ve gotten away from discs, somewhat, I’m still glad we did not get a bunch of cut-scenes we would not need. Resources spent on other things than artificially stuffing the campaign.
> > > Gameplay wise I think the campaign was well rounded with many different things to do.
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> > > Sure, the story itself didn’t meet expectations, it could have been better. However, seeing as we’re getting story DLC on the banished side, A “Covenant story” which people have been asking for, and the Cutter vs Atriox video, it’s possible we’ll see more Campaign DLC in the future as well, from both sides. All with the feedback taken into account. Meaning they could improve over time. Wishful thinking? Yes, however possible.
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> > > 20$ is for the campaign, two leaders and a new Firefight mode. Discount or not, I’m most likely buying it.
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> > Five missions.
> > I think I said this in a different thread, or I may have said it here. $20 can buy me a whole Starcraft game (if I hadn’t already bought it for that price.) It’s mildly ridiculous, and slightly infuriating, that that same $20 will only buy me the equivalent of a quarter of a game.
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> > That being said, I feel like I’m fanning a flame. Thing is, I’ll fan the flame all friggin day, that being said I’ll also be the first to try and put it out if the subject of said flame is trying to fix it. On that note, they don’t seem to be doing so, if the stuff about Grim getting snarky on reddit is the least bit true.
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> Five missions which could be worth it.
> I hope you’ll excuse me, but at the time of any Starcraft launch, not a single one of them was 20$ or lower. Sure, LotV is 20$, but it is at this point a one and a half year old standalone expansion, which use quite a heavy amount of older assets, and from what I recall, was priced like a regular game, even if it wasn’t I’m pretty sure it wasn’t close to 20$, I’ll have to check my purchase history. Neither was WoL or HotS 20$ at their release. So I see no reason in comparing over year old Starcraft game’s current pricing, to a yet to be released HW2 Expansion price.
You’re right, but the highest price I ever saw HotS or LotV is $40, and that’s with a bundle of the previous expansions included, so if I had waited until LotV to come out instead of buying HotS and WoL seperately for $20 each I would still only ever had to have paid $40. For three full campaigns. That’s disregarding the multiplayer. I had to pay $70/$80 for Halo Wars 2 UE, and (generously) it had two games and the season pass. Also, disregarding multiplayer, so it’s as fair as I can make it.
I did however buy the base games of Starcraft, not knowing (or caring really, I just wanted to play the games) if there was a better version available. If there was, I’m sure I would’ve waited until I could get it.
Edit; I’m not trying to be argumentative. I’m just showing the facts. The fact is this games compitetion (only competition at this point) is half the price, and it’s three full games and three separate multiplayers (kind of ridiculous, now I think about it, just make factions like everybody else) for half the price of the best version of HW2.