Oh, it will definitely sell like hotcakes, no matter what. Blizzard, like Valve, could crap in a box and probably make a AAA game as far as sales are concerned :p
But I also can understand Blizzard wanting to keep any actual opinions from the people who actually NEED an opinion (didn't play the beta, aren't obsessed with *craft, etc :p) for as long as possible.
If ActiBlizzard can beat the MW2 sales with either this or Black Ops, Infinity Ward's departure will be negated, and Respawn (or whatever they are calling themselves) will have their work cut out for them. So any trick that will help increase sales of SC2, I see them taking (and this is a good trick).

IIRC TA was released a year or two before SC.

I think hes referring to the brand power Blizzard has. Its true though, I have several friends who, (ugh) only will play Blizzard games. I point them to many other great games that have come out recently, but they ignorantly refuse to try them.
I admire Valve for at least being innovative and affordable, but Blizzard games as of late are neither. I admire the craftsmanship of the their games, but they're really doing nothing to push the medium forward. If I want to play a 1998 game, I will play one (and probably buy it from GoG :-) ).

I'd say that the map editor is very innovative. The single player setup looks to be fairly novel as well.

You can add me to that list too. :)
Valve games + Blizzard games + real life stuff = no time for other games. TF2, SC2, WC3, WoW, AS... who really needs another game. :D

Let's keep it plain and simple shall we?
Gundato is a troll. If he posts kneejerk crapatto just to irritate, which he does, constantly, in every thread, regardless of subject, then I can tell him to take a long hike off a short pier if I so choose. He's had it coming for way too long.

And what do you think you are going to achieve by attacking him at every opportunity, apart from looking like a complete dick? It's not going to stop him from posting his opinions, nor is it going to change how other people receive him around the forums. It is sure as hell going to change how other people around the forums receive YOU for that matter. You are acting irrationally and are effectively degrading overall quality of discussion around the forums. If you have steam to blow off, go do it on some kind of chat room. If you feel HE'S the one degrading quality of discussion, don't join him. If there's a new user lengthly arguing with him, I can see a point in you enlightening him of your opinion about Gundato, as long as you keep it at least at some levels of politeness. However, this is pointless and completely unnecessary. That's all I'm going to say to the matter.

Yeah, basically. Valve and Blizzard pretty much tend to always make quality games. Even people who hate the games tend to have good things to say about it (unless they are just looking for things to hate).
So yeah, Valve or Blizzard could take a huge dump in a box and sell it. It might make their next game harder to sell, but I suspect we would get a GOTYE and a few re-releases of said box of fecal matter :p

They haven't made a game since WoW until now, so there aren't really any "Blizzard games of late" until StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty releases on Tuesday. And WoW definitely did innovate the MMO, even if I personally don't like the game.
(And yes, there are many crap "Activision games of late" and Activision-Blizzard Inc. is the company that produces both brands, but Activision seems to be doing what it always did and Blizzard what it always did.)

Fukkin' hell. Two days.
TWO DAYS

*laughs*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJbAT1wzS8U