carmac just did realtalk with jp 2days before the event and even he came up with best f2p for them to make multiplayer Free for all. and that will help to sell the story mission.
and that’s like general idia that was put in 2mins on the fly.
so how come blizzard can’t do 1+1
cause lets be real here the numbers of RTS players isn’t any where close to FPS/MMO/RPG atm. unless you live in south korea.
starcraft 2 no way will be compered to LoL / dota 2 F2P. cause that will be just bad.
so in order for blizzard to expand starcraft 2 so every random joe will be able to pick it up at try it.
and i believe that any new player to the genre oh RTS will want to drop money and upgrade to full version to get the for story first.
FYI. there’s a trail option at this point for starcraft 2. which you get like few mission and can do like up to few online games.
unless they will start selling out “playtime packs” which will be really bad imo.
“but if no one buys the compain mode” i played LoL and play dota2. never got a single cash item.
however i recommanded the game to like 20 people. and they got it cause it’s free.
so if blizzard really want to expand thier esports game to make it have have a bigger market and bigger fan base. they have to do it.
no new player will go and buy the base game + the new expansion. to play a game that he never played before. that’s like 100$ investion into something that he might not like.
so the game should have a price point where they will go pay like 20$ for multiplayer,
and that is like the max price imo that someone will go and drop on multiplayer only game these days.
and when it comes to level and matchmaking it’s already there. so unless that one guy is really good after he just picked up the game and beats stephano with one hand.
he will stay at the skill level that fits his playstyle and it doesn’t messes up anything for the top players / communities.
p.s. there’s already many great game that just got out dated at this point. and where droped from any major tournament. such as counter strike 1.6, queke, broodwar, dota, unreal tournament, painkiller etc.. because these games are outdated. for reason of viewership and interese by in this game by player numbers.

I really loved StarCraft, but SC2 disappointed me.  The story was okay, but short.  I felt like that’s what I’m buying.  So if they want to make the multi-player free and you buy add-ons and campaign then its okay with me but I hope they keep an upgrade option to buy all the expansion items in one discounted amount instead of buying in piecemeal.