Before any of this. I am not a fan of Starcraft. I own it and its expansion, i have played them both in the distant past and more recently(a few months ago) and it wasn't my thing. C&C has spoiled me on the RTS games.
Sometimes something is popular because its good, despite how many people say its bad (Read: Dwarf fortress) .
If many people dislike something, by definition, doesn't that make it unpopular? By virtue of being good doesn't make something popular. Look at Beta tapes and MiniDiscs. They were good. But not popular. Look what happened to them. Star Craft 2 is popular because it is hyped up. Nothing more.
A lot of people disliking something doesn't make it unpopular, a lack of people who do like it make it unpopular. look at the tons of people who have never played WoW who hate it, and its still basically the most popular MMO. Anyways! Onto stuff just in general, not targeting AnalogX directly.
Blizzard isn't a bad company, obviously, AFAIK. They want to make money... Like everything else?? Everyone in the company needs money to pay for food and housing and everything else that comes with living. If they didn't try to make money, why bother organizing a company to make games?
I could see calling them a bad company if they often screw gamers over, but they are often really cool. In fact, if you have an old CD key from a game of theirs, but your CD is broken / missing, (or even if you just want to) you can go to the blizzard page and make an account, bind the CD key to the account, and download the game whenever you want for free, as many times as you want. Name another company (aside from Steam) that goes out of their way to do something like that for their players?
I am not a Blizzard fan boy. I played WoW for a while, got bored and quit forever ago. Its not a bad game, just not my thing. Played a good amount of Diablo 1 as a kid at my uncles house, was entertaining, but i don't remember it mostly. I own Diablo 2, its a good game, although repetitive if you want to play the same class for more than one play through. Never played Lost Vikings or Warcraft 1. Played a little Warcraft 2, got bored. not my kinda RTS, same with Warcraft 3. Although i played countless hours of player made maps in Warcraft 3. And as above stated, I played Starcraft and Brood War, neither was my thing.
I just saw a friend today (yesterday now actually) that i hadn't seen in many months. He is pretty critical on games normally. He spent half (more like all, but lets be nice
) the time i was around talking about Starcraft 2 and how much he likes it so far, despite getting the crap kicked out of him in online play. I myself am not interested in Starcraft 2, but how can something so many people like, that causes no harm to others even. How can that be bad?
Ill stop rambling on now because its almost 3:00 AM, and i really should sleep. But i couldn't understand how so many people can say they hate blizzard, or that they make bad games. When i have never played one i thought was bad, or heard any good argument for any game they have made being bad.