1997 StarCraft Forum

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ROTS19

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I've been peering into these archives every once in a while over the past year or so, and found lots of cool stuff. It's interesting to see that the current battle.net forums is really not much different from its 13-year old ancestor.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.battle.net/forums/starcraft-suggestions/index.htm

On this archive, you get a sense of what these people were doing when StarCraft was "in the final stretch".

Find anything of note? Share it here.

a few examples of stuff I found:

StarCraft delayed 1998 -
http://web.archive.org/web/19971224191058/battle.net/forums/announcements/1.htm

THE BETA, THE BETA, THE BETA
Norm said:
terrible, terrible death.
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http://web.archive.org/web/19971024110446/www.battle.net/forums/starcraft-suggestions/45099.htm

THE BETA IS HERE
http://web.archive.org/web/19971024111510/www.battle.net/forums/starcraft-suggestions/44986.htm

1997 Forum Spam congo line!
This is the first Starcraft forum chainletter!!!!
how it works:
simply reply to the last person to reply to the person
infront of him.
You know how the messages keep on shifting over when replys
are made and replys about replys? WELL LETS SEE HOW FAR OVER THE
MESSAGE CAN GO!
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http://web.archive.org/web/19971024112231/www.battle.net/forums/starcraft-suggestions/44883.htm

Why all the hype? -
http://web.archive.org/web/19971024105726/www.battle.net/forums/starcraft-suggestions/45166.htm

Originally posted by AdamM, October 23rd 1997 [Blizzard Poster]

If you take too long the technology you used is out of date. We're
interested in making great games, in fact, we're interested in making
the best games we possibly can. Part of that though is knowing when
to say "enough" and to get the game out. Sure, if we took 15
years to make Starcraft it'd be a great game, but only because we had
to completely rewrite it every 2 years or so just to keep up with the
changing technologies.
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http://web.archive.org/web/19971024111004/www.battle.net/forums/starcraft-suggestions/45115.htm

Starcraft Is A Dieing Game!
http://web.archive.org/web/19971024113615/www.battle.net/forums/starcraft-suggestions/44773.htm

zurgs suckk -
http://web.archive.org/web/19970612081320/www.battle.net/forums/starcraft-suggestions/14342.htm

Warcraft Adventures? Come on Blizzard -
http://web.archive.org/web/19971024110845/www.battle.net/forums/starcraft-suggestions/45050.htm

Talruum said:
we've lost it. we have all been waiting so long we have gone bloody insane.
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http://web.archive.org/web/19971024110119/www.battle.net/forums/starcraft-suggestions/45132.htm
 
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Arkless

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xD that site is cool!

I Really couldn't stop laughing when I saw a topic "Warcraft Advanture" and some reply "wow! waste of time!!!" <3 (not that World of Warcraft was ment, but he told the truth without knowing :D )
 
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It was a good read to see a blast from the past. Hell, I was still about 5 years old when they started arguing. Just imagine, my brother was part of that.
 
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