Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm sells 1.1 million in 48 hours

At least someones trying to put out RTS games at a time when RTS's and PC's are supposed to be on their way to extinction.

BYe2 Blizzard

I'm sad to see this. Battle.Net 2.0 troubled launch and poor design choices decimated Blizzard's community. No clan support, no public chat channels, no way to share maps with your friends - the list is endless.

While Heart of the Swarm repairs Battle.Net 2.0 and restores it to the state in which Battle.Net 1.0 - which is now 10 years old - was, it just isn't enough.

Battle.Net 2.0 literally ruined StarCraft. Really sad in my opinion. It didn't have to be this way.

Why would the sales match or surpass Wings of Liberty? It's an expansion pack...

I watched the cutscenes on youtube. Saved 40 bucks.

Ps2 looks better <.<

PS2 looks better...

that campaign can't be as fun and interesting as they used to be, when you're limited to only one race per game

I think I barely made it to mission 5 on the first one, but I never bought SC for the multiplayer.

They probably would've sold more if it wasn't so expensive. I thought expansions are usually around $20.

@Suikogaiden you are my hero!

It' utterly impossible to match WoL as you have to already own WoL to play HotS.
I really enjoyed HotS, i felt their biggest problem was not so much in the writing as it was in the fact it came out 2 friggin years after the first. Everyone's played the crap out of it already.

that's pretty impressive for an expansion

3 reasons why 1.1 million copies are not matched by 1.5 million of WOL .

1)- It's expansion .

2)- Worse marketing campaign than WOL (I read a lot of people on reviews throughout the internet saying they didn't know about the launch) .

3)- Diablo 3 hate .

0.04 million less copies are not a big deal , in this era when game sells more than 1 million in whole year as a multiplatform game is considered a success . Here we have a exclusive to one platform game suffering from above mentioned reasons and sold 1.1 million in 2 days (already earned around 50 million dollars) and that's just a start . Will easily sell more than 6 million copies in a year .

Expansion cant be sold more than game and HOS is an expansion not a game.

@Suikogaiden Did somebody's feelings get hurt by reading an article?

Good to see an actual expansion which seems rare these days when companies would rather nickel and dime you to death. Hots adds a great new campaign and makes some great new additions and changes to the MP if your still into SC2 then theres a lot there for you well worth the money imo.

No matter how good you think you are at this game, there's always some kid in Korea that's better than you.

I'm still interested in SC2, even after all the horror stories. Probably wait for the final bundle wholesale.

I am really starting to hate people that call themselves gamers now. Maybe it is just the online comments that I hate, But I miss the days were people knew that the story line of a game is someone's novel and not open for debate. If you like a game fine if you don't like a game fine either way people didn't spend month after month trolling or trashing a game that others will enjoy just fine. They just played something else END OF STORY!

The campaign was good, not great (WoL gave a great feel of the world but this one was back to old style floating heads giving you barebones intel, and it lacked the options WoL had). Still, for the amount of content it had, 40 bucks isn't bad--remember, people complain about DLC now but this is technically an expansion, not DLC, which people used to not have issues with.

I've got problems with Blizzard myself, as I'm not a fan of the DRM, the AH in Diablo III, or this pandering to professional players who make up less than 1% of the population in SCII. However, I'm even more annoyed with people just saying "Blizzard sucks, Diablo III sucks, SCII sucks, everything sucks" with no explanation. They just assume everyone else shares the same opinion as them. It's fanboy myopia at its worst.

I don't agree with the price point of 40$, so gonna have to shell out 140$ for the complete SC2 experience? Naw, waiting till its on sale.

I got HOTS and WOL as well. I never played Starcraft but i did play Age of Empire's, Age of Empire's 2 Age of King's, Age of Empire's 2 Conqueror's, and Age of Empire's III. Which were made by Ensemble Studios. i also was into Age of Mythology and the Titian's expansion which was also made by Ensemble Studio's. Another RTS that i played was also a game called Empire Earth. Can't recall the dev from that one because well it's been a long time since i played Empire Earth. Another one is Lucasart's own literation of Age of Empire's but with a Star Wars twist. It was called Star Wars Battle GroundsThen there was Warcraft but i never played the first two i think. I have played Warcraft 3 The Reign of Chaos and the expansion pack Frozen throne.The point that i am trying to get across is i like Starcraft 2 and it's sadly the last franchise or even publisher that is still willing to contribute to it's franchise that played a part in establishing the RTS games that are around today. Blizzard maybe making some questionable business decision's but at least Starcraft is still around which carry's alot of the past RTS games that also was one of the puzzle piece's to today's RTS games.

& PC gaming is dead

Why the hell is Voldemort here? I thought he's already deader than dead.

Just finished HOTS and I thought besides the usual, cliched action scenes and dialogue (which was still entertaining btw) it was very well done. I kind of got bored of Wings of Liberty because I thought the characters, besides Tychus and Jim, were lame-ducks. Definitely, not the case with this one. The cutscenes were superb....my favorite one being Shifting Perspective. She was so badass in that one....

What a complete turn around for Blizzard. They used to be THE name in gaming. Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 weren't anywhere near their predecessors. Blizzard spent too much time milking World of Warcraft. Also, I can't believe people are saying cutscenes are streamed and not on the computer? wtf? What a waste of a company.