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No Early Reviews For Starcraft 2. Also, It Didn't Cost $100 million

Not that expensive after all

Gaming  journalists world wide won't be getting any advanced review copies, no matter whom they're working for. Blizzard didn't exactly give an explanation for this, but they did say something about the new Battle.net being too complex and deeply integrated into the game that it makes it practically impossible for journalists to use their servers and properly test the game. But hey, that's not too bad: those who really wait for the game are already familiar with it because of the beta, so it's not a big deal that we won't see a review prior to the game's release.

Now for the other piece of the news: apparently, the news according to which Blizzard spent over $100 million on Starcraft 2 in the 7 years of development are false. They never actually revealed the development costs for Starcraft 2, and the information from The Wall Street Journal was allegedly wrong. Those $100 mil were actually the World of Warcraft total costs, including the 2 expansions to date.