I'm going to object to this statement.ciortas1 said:(seriously, Starcraft, a game from back when Blizzard was a relative unknown, still has 11 million sales and this will have a fucking hard time beating 5 or 6).
Firstly, Starcraft 1 sold 11 million over about 12 years. Plenty of times for selling multi-million copies. Secondly, Starcraft 2 has, over the last four months, sold an estimated 3.33 million (assuming VG Chartz are accurate in tracking retail sales, and a third of all copies are digital downloads). Ultimately, long tail argument applies. I have no doubt that Wings of Liberty will eventually top Starcraft's 11 million sales, thanks to time and the two planned expansions. Although the jist of your point, I agree with. Although, I'd argue that developers and publishers should simply treat piracy as static, and I'd also argue that download numbers are grossly unreliable (Download started =/= Download finished, especially for larger games).