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Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter

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Re: Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter

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Post by close04 »

No gameplay footage and a release date in the next decade. Blizzard is just testing the waters to see if there’s any interest in yet another shooter. Or rather if the StarCraft franchise still has clout.

20-25 years ago I’d be certain Blizzard has some aces up their sleeves. Today not so much. They probably do this to respond to pressure from corporate overlords.

Re: Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter

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Post by shimman »

jceg wrote: post #3

Incredible to see how disconnected Blizzard is from its customers. One more shooter, when we wanted the next RTS.

Let's not kid ourselves that it would be a good RTS. Starcraft 2 + expansions is a very poor game compared to brood war. If you haven't watch the ASL it's definitely worth a gander:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIpLl2W2chg

I'm still amazed that Blizzard dropped the ball on recreating the same environment that enables dynamic play, instead it's always a formation of rock paper scissors with very little nuance in between.

Re: Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter

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Post by ryan_n »

eykanal wrote: post #9

"Set to launch 2030" Why even bother to announce this now? I only see downsides in mentioning something that far out.

This is pretty typical for a new blizzard game. For example Diablo 3 and 4 were both announced 4 years prior to release. Not saying it’s good or bad, but it’s not unusual.

Re: Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter

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Post by nozzlegear »

I watched the live reveal and thought it looked cool. I played a lot of the RTS growing up and remember being hyped for Ghost, so seeing an FPS in the Starcraft universe is interesting. More interesting to me than another RTS, which I personally would not play (just not an interesting genre to me anymore).

Re: Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter

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Post by the__alchemist »

jceg wrote: post #3

Incredible to see how disconnected Blizzard is from its customers. One more shooter, when we wanted the next RTS.

> You think you do, but you don't.

Nailed it. People want patched versions of the same RTS. AoE4 came out a few years ago as an IMO fantastic RTS which smoothed over many of the idiosyncrasies of AoE2. From a multiplayer perspective, it was doomed from the start, for not being AoE2. I couldn't even convince my friends to play it with me. (Everyone is still playing AoE2, and expansions + patches are still regular)

Re: Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter

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Post by ryan_n »

chao- wrote: post #11
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #4

I was wondering how Blizzard's best creative minds would ruin an RTS and make it live service...

AFAIK the majority of people responsible for their legacy RTS games have left, so I figure they feel less capable of even trying.

They announced a new expansion for Warcraft III this past weekend actually. So they are definitely still trying : )

Re: Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter

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Post by Grombobulous »

jceg wrote: post #3

Incredible to see how disconnected Blizzard is from its customers. One more shooter, when we wanted the next RTS.

Blizzard being a generally terrible developer aside, I don’t think you’re right about this.

RTS is not a very popular genre all things considered, and the ARTS/MOBA variants are dominated by DOTA and League of Legends.

You also can’t play RTS games on consoles.

A lot of fans of StarCraft still wish they saw StarCraft: Ghost see the light of day. Arguably the franchise is very much underdeveloped. The IP and story would work well for many game genres that haven’t been explored.

If StarCraft 3 comes out it would only be popular in South Korea and possibly not all that popular at all even there.

Re: Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter

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Post by whalesalad »

jceg wrote: post #3

Incredible to see how disconnected Blizzard is from its customers. One more shooter, when we wanted the next RTS.

Honestly as someone who grew up playing SC, WC3 etc... it gets kinda old. If you have played one, you have played them all. I totally welcome an FPS in the Starcraft world and something fresh from Blizzard.

Re: Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter

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Post by jstummbillig »

jceg wrote: post #3

Incredible to see how disconnected Blizzard is from its customers. One more shooter, when we wanted the next RTS.

While I can feel the pain, the truth is somewhat less outrageous and more somber: Customers for a Blizzard scale RTS simply do not exist.
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