I haven't played SC2, but I'm sure it's GOTY material. I trust Blizzard implicitly with making fantastic games. Even the WoW Cataclym expansion looks amazing. However, as a company, their decisions are really frustrating me and it is becoming harder and harder to justify buying their products. It's like watching a Tom Cruise movie - on-screen, on the job, he's extremely likable and is actually pretty good actor, but in real life he's a crazy asshole. Do you pay to watch his movies? If you do, you're probably going to enjoy the experience, but you're also indirectly funding Scientology.

I really strongly disagree with all these microtransactions and cosmetic DLC. I am glad it's moved beyond paying to access content on the disc like earlier Xbox games, but I simply do not want to wind up paying $200 for a $50 game and it bothers me when people who do get more from the game than I do, even if it's cosmetic. It bothers me that there are people in WoW with items I can never have without paying more money. It doesn't even matter that the items don't do anything. They're saying that if I want to collect everything, I have to pay them more money. Period.

So with Starcraft 2, I'm left with the decision of either buying it and loving it because it's probably one of the best games made since the last one, but also directly paying for a company whose decisions are leading the industry in a direction I hate, or do I skip it and miss out on such a great game, but avoid paying that company?