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To: Tom Caruthers who wrote (1084)	4/3/1998 6:35:00 PM
From: Burlitis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1992

Oh my the Starcraft debate has reared it's ugly head on SI. Are you enjoying the Usenet banter Tom???. It's getting hot and heavy but should die down in a week. The best posting today was all the people getting their keys stolen after they log on. LOL. I know i would be prety pissed having to wait a week just to get another key<G>. For some reason the hackers just love to screw up Battlenet. I really enjoyed Diablo, until i was walking around with people who were cheating all the time. I finally got myself all the best duped items, did Hell all by myself, gave everything away and uninstalled it. Have a good weekend, Alex

To: Tom Caruthers who wrote (1084)	4/4/1998 12:55:00 PM
From: Pierre-X	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1992

Well. I bought Starcraft, played it last night. Lots of people on the net servers. LOTS. Excellent multiplayer support. Built in ladder ranking system. Good tutorial single-player campaigns that teach you the game (if you're new to RTS.) And yet, I would say that BZ is a superior product, in concept and in play, to SC. SC does nothing new, just old things well. But ... AOE and DR do them well too, and some things better than SC. It just goes to show the importance of (a) strong Net support, which BZ doesn't have, and (b) expectations. I'm unloading my ATVI first thing Monday. At the store, SC took up TWO ENTIRE SHELVES of the "new release" section, and the salespeople said it was selling briskly. In contrast, there were exactly two (2) copies of BZ relegated to a corner, and the salespeople said it wasn't selling well. It's also odd that BZ cost $10 more. Not a good move. God bless, PX