Kevin Yu:  Definitely. So far, speaking more in detail about those strategies, how do you think those strategies are meshing out in the early, mid, and late stage game for each of the different races? Especially, adding all of the new abilities and units from StarCraft II as well?

Dustin Browder: Well one of the things we learned in the beta, very early obviously, was a lot of rush strategies that we weren't quite prepared for that we thought that we had under control before it went live with the beta. And we found out pretty quickly over the course of seven or eight patches, I think, we were still fixing some of the core rush strategies. And it's always sort of a tough balance for us because we want to make sure that rush strategies are possible, that it is possible to overcome an enemy with a rush, but at the same time we don't want the rushes to be unstoppable. And our sort of core design value is a rush should be as easy to stop as it is to do, and we're still sort of working all of those kinks out. I think in many cases we've improved it quite a bit, I think most of those are under control, but we are trying to keep an open mind as to what may still be out there that we don't know about. And we come up with phase two of the beta and we will watch and see how those rush strategies are sort of continuing to evolve and we'll keep watching those going forward.

If you're wondering where the early reviews are, Ars Technica and IGN said that Blizzard stiffed everyone on the early review copies. Or StarCraft 2 is a fine bourbon that can't be guzzled. Or something.

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