Blizzard can condense an epic 90 mission campaign into 30, just like Lord of the Rings could've condensed 9 hours of movies into 3. The question here is whether that's a better idea or not. I do want to make it clear that Blizzard, due to the fact that it is spending 3 times longer on the campaign than is usual or even expected, deserves to charge more. If they had to charge the same price for 90 missions as 30 to appease you piraters, then they would've been smarter making an ordinary 30 mission campagain and then releasing two expansion packs, with none of you the wiser. The thing here is that Blizzard is planning on making a truly massive storyline, as opposed to condensing it all into one game. I'm not saying that the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, all condensed into one movie, would not be action-packed and enjoyable. I'm just saying that would would lose a truly massive amount of the story and smaller details, and considering how I am one of the large number of people who play the campaign for fun and rarely ever play online, I think that this trilogy is aimed at people like me. If you don't care about the single player, buy the first game and then pirate/don't buy the others. It won't make a difference seeing as how you do indeed gain access to all the online aspects from the first game. People who suggest that you need to buy all three games for the total online experience haven't checked their sources closely enough.