All this talk of monk making the next great RTS reminds me of a similar situation years ago. When everyone was proclaiming Day9’s new game was going to be the saviour of RTS.
Day 9 actually started promoting the game as early as 2013. Then all of a sudden Day 9 left the company in August 2016. In September 2016, Guardians of Atlas was discontinued. What a huge fail.
It’s different this time though. The masses are more aware that SC2 is going down a steep hill, people are going to want to invest into a new RTS
I’d say it depends on the developers themselves and how they are dealing with the developing process, this ain’t easy at all.
In case of Monk, I believe there has to find a sweet spot on how ambitious the game is, aka indie vs AAA, because it’s gonna take a while and they have to consider the costs.
To be frank, I don’t like how SC2 is slowly going downhill, as it is a good game despite everything, but I suppose things don’t go the way we want.
One of my points is, people act like Monk is the savior of RTS for some reason. Monk is the same guy that almost single-handedly killed off co-op.
He is a moba player, heroes of the storm. Anyone that saw some of the heroes he brought on, with never any new maps mind you, it’s complete non-RTS.
If anyone would save RTS it’s Mike Morhaime when he makes SC3 at Dreamhaven.
It will have to be really similar/clone of starcraft if they want the playerbase to play it. There are other RTS and the main cause of people not going to those games was that the game wasn’t starcraft. All they have is the ex-blizzard devs hype, now the time will tell if they make a game for starcraft fans or other RTS players. Imagine they make a game similar to company of heroes or some other game similar to supreme commander, do you thing the sc1-sc2 hardcore fan would want to play it since it would be even different to warcraft 3?.
I’m sure (and hope) it will be similar to SC2. At least maybe something similar to WC3 too. As long as it’s high quality and involves both micro and macro, I’d be down to try it out. We won’t know for sure until they tell us. You’re right about the ex-blizz dev hype though, but that’s what’s contributing to the hype for a new RTS.
Hmmm…already 7 years huh? Time flies so fast.
4 if you count from when Day 9 single handedly killed the whole project abruptly in summer 2016.
I was a “day 9 is god” fan boy and just assumed this game would own. While I still stand by that, that game let me know that everyone here is mortal… That game was the worst game I’ve ever played. I played the alpha or beta or w/e, as soon as possible, and… I still find it hard to believe that it involved day[9]s hand prints.
Anytime someone is feeling down or less than perfect, remember this game people…
RTS is a stunted genre because it’s hard. If that new company by the original SC2 developers…Snow of the Yeti or w/e tf it’s called…isn’t successful, like…massively, then it’s pretty much over for new RTS games. At best maybe SC2 gets remastered in 2040.
At least in SC2 Day9 was smarter and left the boat way before the ship started to sink.
I guess you are forgetting that Mike Morhaime was the guy with the decision to sell Blizzard to Activision. Monk is a passionate RTS player while Morhaime is an executive businessman.
What makes you think he will save RTS with his new company when he was one of the major figures that paved the way to the downfall of Blizzard?
2013 the game was alive as hell. 2016 was good as well. No I would say it was more DAY9 realizing he just isn’t that good at SC2. Surely not as good as he is at SC1.
And was getting frustrated so he wanted to make his own game. As far as Morhaime, I never agreed with them doing that. I used to call Activision Actigreed. I saw them taking away focus on SC2 in order to make Cancerwatch and so on.
It wasn’t just Morhaime that sold out. Though it was a huge mistake and he must regret doing it.
Semi related, I thought AoE 3 was criminally underrated. Worth checking out for those who haven’t played it and want something new-ish.
It’s even more fun with wars of liberty 
it’s just karma honestly because Day9 jumped ship to other games when thousands of players were relying on him for advice, coaching, tips, and so on…not to mention he was getting paid for it all…and he left to go play other games, s#itting on the entire community in the process, same thing Husky did. Husky tried to act like SC2 is “a kids game” and acted like he “matured” to move on to other things when the crap he’s doing now with Rosana is more immature than about anything else!!! Day9 is a turncoat egomaniac who lined his pocket books off youtube fan’s money and commentating for WCS. When he had enough money he jumped ship. I mean what else can I even say? I was his biggest fan particularly in the WOL era (like 2010-2013 or so) watched like every video he put out back then. He deserves everything bad he has coming his way.
Right it’s too bad about Husky. But Day9 went on to play magic and so on. He really fell off hard. Does he still live with his parents? Looks like he still streams from the same room.
Dont think so, he got married recently.
He had just graduated from his second round of college with a degree in game design. He wanted a REAL job doing what he loved doing. I don’t blame him for taking the opportunity when it was presented to him.
Regardless that was “years ago” at this point. I would be curious to know if he is involved in a new project at another company. This variety streaming fad is going to come to an end eventually.
As for RTS games, they aren’t really what the kids are interested in playing anymore. I doubt any dev studio will make anything close to what SC2 was 10 years ago.
The last RTS will be the one Ice Giant studios is making.
Everyone wants to attack me for my opinions regarding balance but this one is regarding reality.
There is no money in RTS. No one wants to put the effort into make a top level game that wont have a massive player base.