晚上九点， 手机嗡嗡作响。。。 一瞅， 明显是个国外的号码，八成是公事。。。

 

         "Hello, may I speak to A... Ye ..... Shen........."(明显读不来中国人的名字)

         "Yes. this is Shen, Ye"(强调一下自己的名字怎么念)

         "Hello, This is *()@&*$_@ from India. I saw your e-mail about deployment &!*(@()_%... I've some question about it.......“(又是一阵听不懂)"

         "Parden"

         "You did the deployment,right? And in your e-mail you mentioned some problem about schema. 

           When..............  What.......... How........... "(接连三个问题。。。)

         "Parden?"

          (又是一阵重复，终于听懂)

         "Yes? I'm not at the office now. I've dropped you an e-mail. "

         "Yes. I saw it. But I still have some questions. What system you did the deployment and your AW id is? "

         "I did the deployment from A3Y client110 to A3Y client 199 The aw id is FULL_DEPLOYMENT_MASTER"

         "O.K..... You did the deployment on A3Y rignt? Client what??" (这下轮到他听不懂了)

         "client ONE HUNDREND AND TEN, O.K.? client ONE ONE ZERO"(生怕他听不懂，重复两遍)

          "O.K. Thank you for your information"

          "You're welcom. If you've further questions just give me the mail"

          "O.K. bye"

        

       忍受了一段印度英语，原来是非常简单的两个问题(可怜了我的手机费)。。。 但是一看九点了， 班加罗尔也差不多是这个时间了吧。难道印度阿三还在上班？？ 感叹印度人的勤奋，只要遇到问题，会马上给你电话或者Netmeeting搞清除，并且态度非常认真。

       一直自认为中国的员工是最敬业的，可印度人更。。。 最懒的看来是德国人了， 假期很多不说，e-mail回复的很慢也不说，有些问题自上而下地去问更本不理你，一定要自上而下的去push，他才会态度非常好。。。

         印度人的勤奋，加上其语言优势(虽然搞不懂老美和欧洲人怎么就听得懂印度人英语而听不懂中国人的英语了)，果然中国和它还是有差距的。。。

Blizzard was silent on whether using Battle.net for StarCraft 2 would require a charge or subscription fee. The service will certainly have new features, Blizzard assured the press in the audience, but they weren't willing to get into pricing specifics. The company went on to say multiplayer was the main focus here, in fact it consumed a large part of the game's early development. They have professional gamers working on balancing right now, and will bring in even more once the game hits beta. Fans of the single-player storyline will have to wait for details, since the single-player's development is being held until the latter part of the overall cycle. Blizzard wasn't willing to divulge any narrative details, aside from the fact that Kerrigan, Jim Raynor, and Zeratul would likely be involved.

Resource collection will remain largely the same, though Blizzard mentioned there may be a few tweaks. Still, properly managing resources will remain critical to a players' success. Many of the questions tossed at the panel revolved around further popularizing StarCraft's appeal to professional gamers, and popularizing the "sport" in parts of the world other than Korea. Blizzard had mentioned there may be a deal forthcoming regarding broadcasting their games on television in North America.

Questions were put out asking why StarCraft 2 seemed to play so similarly to the original. Blizzard responded by saying they understood there were some similarities, and that's because they wanted to keep its base gameplay mainly the same, as they're trying to meet the expectations of both professional gamers and casual alike. They feel they don't need to have a fancy feature or ability, such as Supreme Commander's zoom, to be good. To further appeal to the community, Blizzard will release a map editor with the game which will somehow tie in to some of Battle.net's unannounced enhanced functionality.

StarCraft 2 will have no unit selection limit, which should please or enrage StarCraft purists. The game has been in development since 2003, and may have been further along had World of Warcraft not impacted the development process to a degree. Today, StarCraft 2's development team is around 40 members strong, with several other teams around Blizzard helping out here and there.

As of right now, Blizzard has no plans to bring StarCraft 2 to consoles. They feel the fees console manufacturers' charges are still too high, and think their games are more suited for the PC platform anyway. Though the game, currently pre-alpha, does not support DX10 right now, it hopefully will in the future. The game will be playable on both Windows XP and Vista operating systems. StarCraft 2 will release when it's ready, says Blizzard.