Known for its infamous \u201cwhen it\u2019s done\u201d approach to game development, Blizzard is really dragging its heels with the 2nd instalment in the Starcraft 2 trilogy, Heart of the Swarm.<\/p>\n
However, lead designer Dustin Browder insists that the game is \u201c99% done\u201d, although he does elaborate: \u201cbut that last one per cent is a bitch.”<\/p>\n
According to Browder, all the missions and playable units are done, but that last little bit of fine-tuning is still a work in progress.<\/p>\n
“There’s something in for everything – it’s whether we like it or not that’s an open question. It’s the tuning and polish that really takes us a long time, and that’s where we get into the unknowns,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“Like we could do a play-through next week that we’re like, ‘Wow this is really great.’ Or we could do a play-through and we still have 250 items we wanna fix. You know, historically speaking we’re doing pretty well. We’re getting there. But I don’t know for sure yet when we’ll be done.”<\/p>\n
So we can probably expect it sometime in the next 1-10 years then.<\/p>\n
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