Your complaining that the story is too long, and has too many extras... that's just ridiculous lol. Your opinions can be valid no matter what, they're just opinions. My point was that no matter which direction Blizzard took, there will be people who will complain that it was wrong and they hate it. Although I've never seen someone complain that there is too much content.
No, I'm not complaining that the story is too long - I'm complaining that the Single Player Campaign is too long for the story it has. If they had of had more character development, more things to do between missions and removed all of the fluff, it's campaign would have been excellent.
The original Starcraft had filler content too. When they talked of seperating the second's story into three seperate entries, they said it was because there was simply too much game for one release, and that they were working on a truly Epic Story that we'd love! Unfortunately, they could have cut out half of the game that they made and no one would have noticed because it makes no sense in context and honestly has no bearing of any kind on this story - the, apparently, sole reason for splitting the game up into pieces. Their justification for three price tags is made invalid by even including filler content and padding
When you charge three times for a single and complete story, that story needs to justify it. It doesn't. At all. They could have cut out 15 missions without any consequences, compressed a few missions with smart writing and added in two seperate campaigns and given a real sequel to Starcraft. A lot of people argued that we were getting 1/3rd of a game. Well, content wise, that's not true - there's a decent length to the Single Player game content wise. Unfortunately, ultimately, it is 1/3rd of a full experience. There is zero character development and the story's only real development or advancement takes place during three missions (Spoiler: The Protoss Missions) which ultimately makes Starcraft II over-priced and bloated.
I wanted to love Starcraft II (shit, I still have Starcraft installed on this very machine!) however with a cost of AU$100.00, and a requirement of two purchases still to go to see the end, I have to call into question the value and reasoning of around AU$300.00's worth of purchases. There just isn't AU$300.00 worth of story here, and that's what was promised. Optional missions don't make up for AU$200.00 extra dollars on the price tag.
Add into that uprising on the Battle.net forums regarding custom content, which for some is a big reason for purchase, the absolute lack of features for Battle.net 2.0 - feature which were supposed to justify the online requirement - and you have a game which ultimately disappoints. If you like, all well and good, however my complaints are quite valid.
