This guy seems to hammer Blizzard over cancellation of a SC fps, but I think he sees things backwards.
I hammer blizzard all of the time, but I think canceling the project makes sense because OW has a huge fan base already, and if you are going to do OW2, SC FPS made little sense.
I also dont see SC fans being happy that the next installment of the franchise was FPS and not RTS. But thats just my opinion.
I do agree that Blizzard has been in a terrible management state and it shows in their game production decline, and even in employee morale issues if you are paying attention.
But if they pull of a decent D4 and a decent follow up to OW, I think that would go a long way to getting them back on track. Cross your fingers.
It was also made out of Titan and the devs had little experience or clear direction on where to go in the FPS MOBA arena.
I think OW2 being made from the ground up has a lot more potential to fix things than trying to patch up its current issues.
If OW2 is just an updated OW I will be disappointed, but it sounds like they may have a vision for where to take the game so I am keeping my fingers crossed.
When I read the Kotaku article, I was curious about the FPS game they were talking about, but I quickly lost interest when I heard that they were trying to follow Battlefieldâs lead. I really feel like it was less trying to build a good quality game that is fun to play, and more like they were trying to cash in on the large-battlefield FPS while giving it a Star-Craft skin. I think it also would have been a nightmare because StarCraft is known for having a wide array of troop types just for a single faction, and SC2 had even more diversity on top of those with mercenaries, different strains you could evolve, and even different factionsâ take on different troop types. What if you have a favorite troop type that isnât in the game?.. Or worse, what if that becomes the basis for the revenue model?
While it would be cool to kinda narrow the focus of the game down to a single characters perspective, see the battlefield from the mud-level⌠the idea relayed in the Kotaku article just didnât seem engaging to me and I have a small shred of hope that maybe thereâs some pushback against the Activision influenceâŚ
Only time will tell. Hopefully we can get a better picture at this years Blizzcon⌠But then, I guess they were serious about that âdonât you all have phones?â question with the app they wanted you to download.
I wouldnât consider it a bad idea for blizz to try to branch out on OW. From what I can see, thereâs a lot more interest in the âstoryâ of the world that simply isnât told through the current gameplay and some people are more interested in just about any character vid that comes out (cough cept d.vaâs cough) than in first-person shooters. If a different game design allows people to engage in that setting and be involved in that story, then it could be a means to pull in the audience that wants to be more involved with Overwatch, but is turned off by the genre.
I kinda feel like the articles is missing the forest from the trees.
âMan, the blizzard I knew would release stuff like every year or year and a halfâ umm⌠if you count battle-boxes for rereleased stuff or ports, sure. But thereâs more like 2-4 gaps between releases before and thatâs kinda the scope of how the depth of these games have to expand on the simple pixelated productions made in the 90âs.
Similarly, the older games where pretty much fire-and-forget sales instead of having like 5 products that continue to create new content for players to consume.
New releases are nice, but its a bit disconnected to say blizz hasnât done anything Granted, customer perception is important, but branched-off nostalgia isnât going to be sated by simply releasing something for the sake of releasing it.
Every time Blizzard wants to shell out a new game doesnât mean they need a new IP or stick to an existing one within their respective genre⌠that line of thinking would never have brought us WoW. I mean, why make an RPG from an RTS IP when youâve already got Diablo?
Crossing IPs over genres isnât a bad thing; if theyâd release a Starcraft themed shooter or RPG Iâd eat that stuff right up.
EDIT: Actually, the fact they canceled it in favor of Overwatch 2 irks the hell out of me. Itâs got Call of Duty Blackops 9000 written all over it.
cast the next Starcraft game as a take on the Dynasty Warriors/Hyrule Legends sort of games XD Could give it a unique spin and have players control several units as an elite group instead of just select Heroes and have the scenarios play out akin to the LoV intro video.
Then get a fighting game spin-off that plays out what-if scenarios of hero characters forced into amonâs chain of accession â could even give it up multi-player or party-game spin where players form teams to support their lead fighter and create a different take on the 3v3 genre of tag-team fighting games.
I find it very funny that all of these articles keep referencing the Kotaku article, they donât have the sources from Blizzard itself like Kotaku âdidâ, they have the sources of another article from a site with a trash reputation of creating very vague and terrible articles constantly.
The source of all these articles coming from one article sounds so off, not buying it sorry.
Forbes (the one OP linking):
VentureBeat:
PC games, why?
I like Rock Paper Shotgun, this is also the first dumb article I saw them make.
More sites that I donât wanna bother in naming them:
This is so dumb, I donât trust Kotaku in the slightest beacuse of their articles are absolutely trash and sometimes overreacting like most clickbait articles do to make free cash, this is so fake news and those other sites are jumping the train just to create that this is actually real when all their sourcing LITERALLY COMES FROM THE SAME EXACT ARTICLE
Only about 10% of it, but a certain someone screeching âfake newsâ at every negative story about him has unfortunately warped public opinion pretty badly - if you repeat a lie often enough, inattentive people will start thinking itâs the truth.
Its also the last game the released and they are already making a sequel? Blizzard used to be known for supporting their games instead of jumping to sequelsâŚ
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Granted, customer perception is important, but branched-off nostalgia isnât going to be sated by simply releasing something for the sake of releasing it.
