Are you a blizzard employee?
Assuming sc2 will have 33% mechanical units, what's the problem? Only lack of imagination would withhold someone from making mechanical heroes.
Are you a blizzard employee or have you intensively played sc2 alpha releases?
Especially custom games will certainly not have any lack of "diverse" units.
Are you a blizzard employee?
Race units only will probably be twice as many already, due to wc3 having a limitted amount of units. By carefully looking at the very few released screenshots, you should also notice a lot of non-melee units, and that information is only gathered from a dozen screenshots. Unless you work at blizzard, you don't have a fracking clue about this "lack of diversity in models".
To make a pretty easy example: warcraft 2 had, say, 10 non-melee "models". warcraft 3 suddenly had hundreds of creep units. It's not because starcraft 2 melee might not contain creep, that there will be a lack of models. In fact, I'm pretty positive this issue was adressed already and Karune ( I think ) has confirmed that blizzard will supply us with plenty models.
I'm confused... Is this an argument to say people will stay with wc3?
No thanks. The effect of being able to do so would have the same effect as importing starcraft 1 sprites into warcraft 3.
why import wc3 abilities in sc2? If you need them, just remake them?
As far as I know, this is an included feature already.
I think I can safely say that sc2 owns wc3 big time on the graphical aspect, including the terrains, even when it's still in alpha stage.
Sorry for battering each argument of your post, but frankly, I'm right. This post sounds to me like made by an uninformed sc hater.
1. I am not a Starcraft hater.
2. I was making that post in response to the question of the topic which was "Will people still play Warcraft 3 after Starcraft 2 is released"?
That post said I replied I will probably will still play Warcraft 3 even after Starcraft 2 is released UNLESS Starcraft 2 has ways of importing Warcraft 3 spells and abilities and stuff,
so I posted if I can somehow "import" a map I made on Warcraft 3 to Starcraft 2, then I'd stop playing Warcraft 3.
Since Blizzard said the SC2 engine is not the same as WC3 engine, and they posted that directly in response to will "porting" Warcraft 3 models to Starcraft 2 possible, I posted that I will probably still play Warcraft 3.
Note what I said in my post:
People will stay with WC3 because of:
(BTW, I meant "stay with WC3" as in "Still play", sorry for that, I was writing the post fast).
I said that in response to
"Will people still play Warcraft 3 after Starcraft 2 is released".
I said yes, this is one of the examples I used:
1. Models
I mean, Starcraft's 2 models, aren't as "diverse" as Wacraft 3. Not to mention a third of SC2's unit models will be "mechanical" units(battle cruisers, etc) which don't make good hero units for a game like DotA for example.
Warcraft 3 has diverse units which makes things more "fun".
Also WC3 has hundreds of different (unit) models to use. Starcraft 2 will only have probably, a third of what WC3 has(due to the fac
Also, I was NEVER BASHING Starcraft 2 or bashing their models. Though it's my fault
(no sarcasm) for using the word "diverse" alone, the word was the wrong word to use in my post
(I was writing up the post quickly so I didn't use the right words, apologize for not making my post clear. Again no sarcasm).
When I said diverse,
I meant that Warcraft 3 has a "diverse(variety of) themed" units, for example:
1. There are orcs, humans, night elfs, undead, we all know those.
2. There Creeps, which make up a lot of "themed" units like insects, animals, etc. There are units like Naga, "element" units like Phoenix, Water Elemental, etc.
3. Mechanical units like Siege Engine, Structures , etc.
4. They also have some "space themed" units like the Starcraft marines, Hydralisk, and Zerglings.
As you can see, I posted that in response to "Will people still play Warcraft 3".
I say yes because Warcraft 3 has more "diverse themed" units for players to make maps based on.
Anyway, I do not hate Starcraft, I can't wait till Star craft 2 comes out since I do like Starcraft and actually prefer Starcraft's story over Warcraft's story.
Even though Starcraft 2 has a more powerful map editor and stuff, I'll probably still play Warcraft 3 and still probably make maps for Warcraft 3 too(as well as Starcraft 2) since Warcraft 3 has a variety of themed units, plus the day/night system, plus weather system which has a lot of maps that you can make it off of
(Dark Deeds is an example of a map that makes good use of day/night and weather system that Warcraft 3 has).
I said my post in response to the question "Will people still play WC3", and I said yes. Sorry for not making my post clear, I wrote it up quick when I posted it.