I haven't been following StarCraft 2 that much lately, but today I did do some reading online on
www.sc2blog.com. After looking through probably three months worth of materials... I'm really quite amazed at how completely awesome StarCraft's community manager Kirune, and other StarCraft developers in general are. People pose questions, answers are given. Feedback is supplied on the general appearance of the game - Developers decide to add some desaturation. People comment on appearances of specific units, effects, or the roles of units in the game and developers give straightforward answers on their decisionmaking processes behind them. In general it seems like the developers realize they are making what is essentially a loveletter to the millions of fans who played the original, and so are interacting with them to a degree and with a humility that's truly refreshing. And all of this is in addition to actually releasing tons of preview images, the cinematic trailers
and the actual gameplay trailers.
And the game isn't even in beta yet. I'm really hoping that even some of the units that are cut, or will be cut, make it into the game regardless for modding purposes. Mapping and modding for StarCraft 2 looks like it'll be huge fun.