Blizzard hasn’t been good since they sold out to Activision.
StarCraft Brood War pro scene is still going strong! I encourage anyone curious about SC to dip back into the active pro scene. A new season of ASL (GSL of old) is going to start in the next month, or so. And for the sickos, Artosis has a daily YouTube of matches. His enthusiasm is unmatched.
I want an awesome RTS, like Wings of Liberty, but I would absolutely play a StarCraft shooter with a really good story and gameplay. I have zero interest in another Overwatch or extraction shooter. I expect another low-effort reskin.
Firing up the new Starcraft shooter, the female voice in your coms says: “Run down this hallway, you’re going to need to prove you know how to crouch and jump over obstacles before you can learn how to switch weapon modes!”
yeah, I am gonna need something really special to get excited about another FPS shooter no matter what the wallpaper looks like.
After everything they’ve done to their other key franchises… Surely no one is going to fall for this, right?
Do you even cell phone bro?
Give us Ghost you cowards.
You can play it on the original Xbox, there was a leak maybe 2020 of a prerelease / wip.
I should grab some screencaptures of the ingame, but I’m sure there are plenty out there.
So are they going to do another game thats pretty much just a reskin like when they turned that chinese mobile game into a diablo game?
Do you guys not have phones?
Let’s take something arguably genre defining and turn it into a fad chaser! Great idea.
Let’s take everything the fans love about Starcraft and throw it away. Once we have a soulless aesthetic husk remaining we can slap it in to any piece of shit and count on nostalgia to bring in the buyers!
Something needs to fill the gaping hole left by Concord’s death.
Are you forgetting StarCraft:Ghost?
Not at all! I think StarCraft: Ghost is a reinforcement of what I said in my response to Makhno.
I thought Ghost was a great idea, but the context surrounding it was fundamentally different. Ghost was a spin-off alongside an active RTS series. Starcraft was still a core Blizzard product, and StarCraft II was already an expected continuation. Nobody thought Ghost was replacing the genre identity of the franchise.
Why would branching out with a successful IP be bad? Are you mad at all the Warhammer games? Does Vermintide’s existence cheapen the Total War games?
You’re arguing against a position nobody stated. My criticism isn’t that an IP ever appears in another genre. It is the pattern of publishers repurposing established strategy franchises into monetization-friendly live-service shooters because that market is larger and more predictable.
Warhammer is a poor comparison. Games like Vermintide didn’t replace or redefine Warhammer; they existed alongside a still-supported core genre identity. The RTS space around StarCraft has effectively been abandoned for years. So when the first meaningful revival rumor turns out to be a shooter, I read it less as expansion and more as substitution.
If Blizzard announced a new RTS and also a shooter spin-off, I would not be critical. The reaction is about genre displacement, not genre diversification.
Don’t get my hopes up for StarCraft: Ghost again! 😩
[Two years from now]: “Don’t you guys have phones?”
Current Blizzard wouldn’t have cancelled Ghost.
But will it be good?
I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Sure, why the heck not 🤷
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🤷Oh boy… I see lots of crunch in the future of those poor devs.
Question will be if there’s going to be a single player component. Back then StarCraft had a beloved universe and characters. Post StarCraft 2 - the universe and those beloved characters aren’t so beloved anymore. SC2 and expansions may have been worse than Veilguard for their fanbases in terms of universal disappointment over the stories
I’m just glad I got a tiny bit of closure for Raynor and Kerrigan before Blizzard went full enshittification
Was it really so poorly received? I gotta admit I enjoyed SC2 and was happy to finish out the story, but was much less critical of games etc in my younger years, and have not gone back to play it again since. The ending on disable 3 though, boy was I unimpressed.
Weird idea but bear with me: They could, and this will shock some of you, I hope you’re sitting in a safe position … They could revive Starcraft as fucking Starcraft!
“Now with less SA” -Blizzard, probably.
Is it gonna be pay-to-win?
Pay to buy, pay to play, pay to get upgrades, pay to get the best ending, pay to not play. (You will have to use premium currency to set the game down for more than a day or lose all progress.)
ZeroSpace you’re our only hope. Please be the Tempest Rising to Command and Conquer that StarCraft needs.
First time hearing about this. It sure looks promising.
