Battle.net

Managed to get the Collector's Edition from a game store without having to pre-order anything. Was a pretty lucky bastard, I guess. ;-P

I quickly ordered a CE game on the internet lol

After installing the game from the downloaded client I had waited for the parcel to be delivered by UPS. After I had returned home from renovating my new flat it was already waiting for me.

I just went down the shop 2 days after the release date there was a special offer on 399kr, swedish krona. then i went home and played it 12 hours solid :) played online but got wiped out each time, so decided to practice a bit on the single player Campaign

Midnight Event :P

Installed it, and began to play no problems at all, except the delayed delivery from the danish post office :(

Well, I didn't really had the energy to join the midnight opening. I felt pretty lucky when I bought the last collector's edition set from the store the other day though. ((:

Not so good at all. 5 crashes when installing and updating. But I eventually fixed the problem with Ccleaner. (Fixed REG).

Realised that I had no money on the 27th. Longest 3 days untill payday I ever had :)

rather disappointing when I found out that the special edition had already run out prior to me arriving at the store to get it. But I sure @##@ wasnt leaving emptyhanded!

Pretty smooth. I woke up late int the morning to find my copy had arrived. hooah!

Release day was allright. I underestimated the postal system and expected it the say after. Pleasant suprise :)

The only thing that bothered me was the 2 hour wait to confirm my battle.net account e-mail. That was two loooong hours.
And after that I've gone to bed a tad later then I should have :p (like an hour or two)

The release day for me was uneventful because I had forgotten about the exact date. But I soon realised my mistake and went to my nearest computer store here in Gothenburg Sweden and they had a couple of copies left.

After about 20 minutes of installation and 10 minutes of battlenet configuration I was ready to go and everything worked perfectly. I then checked the settings to make sure the graphics settings was set to the highest possible on everything but the autoconfiguration had already done that. Excellent.

All I can say is good job Blizzard! Both the campaign and the multiplayer games work perfectly with absolutely no lags or slowdowns at all and the graphics are very good as well.

I ended up played from the 29:e and four days almost constantly only taking breaks for sleeping and for a snack or two.
But now Im back at work again after 5 weeks of holiday so Im gonna have to wait a while before I can get back into the action. =)

I was positively surprised about the excellent Wine-Support vom Day Zero :-) ... 26th of July, 22:06 CEST it was installed and running on my machine without Problems :-) ... Some of my notes regarding Wine / Linux: http://bit.ly/93zxVd (in german)

It was fantastic. My friend ordered the game for me. And he gave it to me the day after it was released.

My Starcraft 2 launch was bad. The Swedish mail office delivered my game 1 day late because they don't give a damn about northern Sweden.

I long until I move to southern Sweden in 2 years...

I was a bit like a baneling full of excitement ready to burst waiting but it never arrived on the 27th...I was a tiny bit peeved. Went to work on 28th and my housemate rang me to tell me i had a large parcel... Very nearly went home ill. Installed in about 30 mins whilst listerning to the install recap which was great and then played untill i had to go to work on thursday... Ah Great times. (still tired but worth it...)

I went to the nearest game store with my older brother and we were there 22 minutes early. I noticed that we were the first one there and when the store opened I noticed that we were the ONLY ONES there. Because we were the first ones there we got StarCraft 2 shirts. Sometimes Finland sickens me.

Downloaded the game in advance. at 10:00:01 F5 F5 F5... got the online version. whent home, had to take a long (WWW) Walk With Wife. She had no understanding of why i would like to play after 12years of waiting :D When to bed, next morning i got to play 2 missions. Why did i not take a day off.... :D

My launch was terrible, tried logging on at around 7pm eventually managed to play at 10pm, (starcraft is not associated with my account etc...) must have tried over 50 times to login, words cant express the frustration, now whenever I start the game I am worried it wont let me log in just out of instinct.

I preordered the game from a online store in sweden on the 24th. On the 27th I tried to get something done at work, but that was futile. I had been like a little kid for 3 days straight. Got home from work, and there in the mailbox, was it. My brand new CE of SWII!! I just laughed of pure happiness! Went in, started the install, took 'bout 30 min+5 to set up to battle.net. Started playing. The only thing I could say was..WOW!! The only sad thing was that I had to work the next day :( Waited 'till the weekend, then me and my buds pulled Starcraft for 36 hours straight!!

I was so excited to get going.. but i couldn't get connected to battle.net server to register for 2 days. Was anxiety-provoking and unfortunate, but now that it's working, I can't wait to get home from work to get on with accumulating achievements! :)

I had to wait two days for the game to download due to two failed attempts (left it on overnight, while at work etc).
So my experience was crap.

I installed the game on my four years old computer (took 90 minutes !), then started to play it with all settings turned to the minimum.
I just can't believe the game runs so well without any freezes (low framerate, gameplay issues etc...) ! It's just less beautiful than with all settings Ultra, ok, but thanks Blizzard for having made that possible ! I even can play on Battle.net against opponent with high end computer without having to suffer any penalty, at last from my point of view.
Can't wait for the expansion packs with Zergs and Protoss campaign now. Cheers Blizzard !
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I was running all over the cd shops in my city to find a CE,and finally i bought the last 1 on the shelf

Listened to the soundtrack, checked the CE-Art-Book, installed SCII on my GFs and my computer, watched her falling in love with Jimmy but had this gorgeous music to solace me.

I'm staying with my family during the summer, mum woke me up by waving Starcraft 2 in my face. I played it all day. I had a good launch day!

I took my first day off in 2 years. I own a small computer store in South Africa and don’t ever get the chance to take a day for myself. Being the only employee the reasons to rest don’t come often. Well blizzard you gave me a reason to spend a day on my own with StarCraft 2 . Thanks for a great game and making the world and all the troubles disappear for a little while. Greetings from south africa.

I got the game at the release and here's what I got to say:

I loved the improved graffics, enjoyed the campaign, editor... no.
I mean I know how to work with it but the publish system here isn't working right. And I kept changing the name of my first map (that was the problem) and still couldn't publish.

Now I can barely publish anything because of the names. (they aren't even offensive).

But yeah besides that, it's really good.

The day of the 27th, i sat back at my PC and waited for the 09:00 release here in UK, I had already installed the game. and had it all setup, all i had left to do was get my license. After completing the purchase of the license, @ 09:01, it took the server an hour, before it would let me log in, I had to email technical support, i had an error saying "no assocated license to my account". It was now 11:00 i had not heard back for EU Support, so i tried resetting my password for my Battlenet account, as this was something i had already done on the BETA testing, which resolved my problem.

I then emailed technical support to tell them the news, in which they replied praticly instantly saying the ticket was closed.

So you asked me my experience on release.
I was very disapointed,.

Well i bought it the day after launch day (28th). I installed it immediately
after i came home and have played it ever since. Great game, a really nice
campaign. Loved it :)

on 27 had to go work from 13:00, i went to the stores they informed me that they will have the game in the afternoon.... a day lost.
The second day at 9 am i purchased the game, installed it and... SURPRISE btnet was under maintenance untill 15:00 (local time).. guess what ... at 13:00 was going to work again....... SO FINALLY when i got home from work at 02:00 in the night i played two campaing missions and falled asleep :)

Well well well got key and went to room, locked door and was playing non stop :)

What a night! London for the launch night, stranded due to the tube shutting for repairs, cab back then 3 hours sleep before a full 9 hour shift at work. Worth it? God yes!

Went over to a friend with my newly bought super laptop and a 22" screen monday the 26th. We cleared his place for as good as we could. Around 22 oclock (10 pm) I headed down to where i work in Blockbuster to secure and pack 5 bags with collectors edition, t-shirts, posters, candy etc. etc. At 23:59 I was the first in line, and my friends had arrived. We got our games and headed home to install it (at that point we were 7 people in the same 3 room appartment). Unfortunatly one of the mates im playing 3v3 with had a super slow laptop, which took 2½ hours installing the game. After that though, we played for 16-18 hours a day till now! ;-)

What did I do on launch day? Picked the game up, installed it and began to play. No fuss, no problems. For once :P

When the store called that they have my copy, I had to hold myself back from skipping to the store, and then to hold myself back from skipping back home with the copy in my hands.

I still couldn't manage to hold back the smile.

When I installed the game, i had shivers running down my spine.