i don't think a fourth race would fail because well look at warcraft 3 and how well it did it was also a blizzard creation. it would be kinda cool really. also have any of you guys noticed that there is now stuff on the new zerg units yet. i wonder what changes they made there. i know they keeped the ghost, mairine, zealot, siege tank, battle cruiser, dark templar, and templar.

they sort of added a new race for the expantion the frozen throne the naga were a semi race a i think that the capable men and women a blizzard could do it if they wanted to.

Warcraft 3 did not have nearly as high an expectation to live up to as starcraft 2, which adding a new race could potentially ruin. Also, Nagas were playable, but as they were not one of the main use able races in the games, they did not have to be balanced, making it a lot easier.

having a fourth race would be a very good addition 2 this game. their is so much u could do. if its a mix of zerg and protoss(which it would b, dats wat happened at the end of sc1) it would have 2 b stronger than both the protoss and zerg so they wouldnt have 2 balanace it out. makin it realistic would mean that the three races would b even but this fourth race is sumthing new, sumthing powerful. they should cause fear and panic among the other three races, particularly zerg and prototss. but at the same time they should also have a weakness 2 sum particular units of the zerg and protoss(like maybe reaper bullets do a little bit extra damage to just this new race...but the reapers die just as quickly), like the newer ones, being that when they first merged wit the races those units werent their. that way they would b all powerful but still have weakpoints.

fourth race would be a bad idea... all the ineterviews talk about a forth race but they say that they want to stick to the 3 main races.. i think getting rid of the firebat will be a bad idea but i guess its to balence for the new jet packed unit..

It would be cool to have another race, but wouldn't you need more units per race to counter the exponentially growing number of strategies you create? And if you don't need more units; thus keeping the number of possible strategies the same, what is the point of adding the 4th race to begin with?

Anyway, I think the heroes in War 3 significantly dimished the value of all the other units and I sure am glad there's none in multiplayer starcraft 1/2.

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the above message only holds if the 4th race were to be as radically different from the other 3, as the protoss, terran and zerg are from each other now.

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i would much rather not have a 4th race... starcraft is great the way it is... adding a 4th playable race may totally change the way starcraft is... i believe it should be left as the original 3 races...

I can kind of see what Blizzard is going through right now. A lot of newer players and Warcraft players will probably want a 4th race. But most of the veterans don't. Adding a new race can make or break the game right now. It's a hard choice.

there's a fourth race, but not for gameplay, created only for the story. well, thats what ithink.

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