Star Craft was great because it is accessible (sorry for my tense changes lol). It's the only RTS I can really pick up and play without getting frustrated at the fact that I rarely play RTSs. I'm probably going to replay the original Star Craft first. I had my original disks stolen before I could finish them. The Collector's Edition includes the original games preloaded onto a flash drive. Awesomenes!

And I agree the game is a clickfest. Building 50 workers and then micro managing them is a pain, but it's not a game breaker for me. The other RTS series I like a lot if the Dawn of War games. They really streamlined resource management. I have Dawn of War II, but I have yet to play it, from what I've been told resource management was completely removed. I may have to give it a go.

I'm a bit pissed about the region settings, that people from the NA can't play with people from the EU.

I got the NA version (canada) but i asked blizzard to change it to EU, they are doing it now so i can play with my people in Germany, but still i really think they should stop breaking that into regions.

Never played StarCraft 1 online, just in LAN, did they had a region block there too?

I really can't remember, it's been years...

That is pretty lame, but it must be to cut down on lag. I never ever get on European servers or else I lag like a bitch, and that can be disastrous on Peer to Peer networking games like MW2 or AVP.

I don't think they host server, they just provide a master server, don't they? So the connection is just between the players and one of them is host.

And they could just add a tag to the serverlist to show which region the host is using so you can just filter for EU, NA, etc.

After playing Starcraft 2 for a while here a small resume:

-Great Story and Mission in Singleplay.
They are really fun, and offer lots of additional (also
the old) units, compared to the multiplayer.

The Starship/Homebase enviroment between the missions is a grat idea,
and gives it some RPG feeling.

-Multiplayer is great as expected. Also taking some more thought
into getting casual players be able to play it
(wich was not the case for Starcraft 1)

-Bad bad Menusystem.
Somehow they missed to implement a coherent Menusystem into
the game. Its an unstructured mashup. I never know where Im currently in the main menus.
Blizzard did that much better in all other games.
Also the linkup into the Battlenet service is confusing.

Ingame the menu is ok, but not great.

All I know is... it better come today! It would totally blow if I had to wait a week for it! 3-day shipping, right...

Wow. I just found out that Newegg didn't have enough pre-orders left when I placed mine. Fuck Newegg. Seriously. All I got is this stupid $10 dollar gift card.

I guess I'm not getting my collector's edition. Like hell I'm paying $130+ for it, and like hell I'm paying $60 for a PC game!!

Seriously I'm disappointed beyond all reason. I was really looking forward to this.