Iâve always thought it would be so fun for a Diablo or a Starcraft game like wow. ^,^ Especially SC because of the spacey thing and so many different classes n stuff. Couple different races. lol
As much as Iâd definitely at least check this out, I think people need to give up on MMORPGs.
The genre is dead. Nothing relevant has launched since 2014. The ones still being developed are indie titles in dev hell with way more hype from content-starved MMO players than they can ever possibly deliver on. If anything was gonna change that, it wouldâve been a big release from a big company like Amazon, but New World flopped hard (in terms of player retention, not initial sales â because, again, MMO players are starved and buy anything).
Blizzard isnât going to take that risk in this market. Maaaybe they could have gotten away with an FPS MMO back in 2013 or so. Not anymore. Theyâve also put it on record that they âDonât want to be the MMORPG companyâ. So I wouldnât expect them to even want to make one beyond maintaining WoW.
It would exactly be Helldivers with a SC skin on it. And no one will buy that because wtf is Starcraft? That game my grandpa played? Look, theyâre even ripping off the Terminids, and just put weird mouthless aliens in place of the mechs. And without the tongue-in-cheek humorous charm that made HD2 a hit.
The franchise has been dead for nearly a decade, trying to prop up its corpse to dance for dollars would be such an obvious and embarrassing cash grab.
A Starcraft shooter would be INCREDIBLE if they made it something like the Natural Selection mod for Half-Life. Hybrid shooter/RTS/MOBA kinda thing where more advanced units are unlocked over the course of a match, with totally different strengths and mobility.
I miss running around ceilings and vents ambushing opponents until theyâre scared to venture out alone. :<
A Blizz dev said he knows what is going to happen next with SC but declined to comment further when questioned and also hinted it may not be RTS. If it is not RTS then I may not play.
Idk. RTS and MMO are 2 dead genres IMO.
I get why theyâd want to try something else with the IP after SCII.
The Starcraft story effectively concluded anyway. If theyâre going to push forward some unrelated story, might as well be in a different genre.
And itâs Starcraft, so if itâs not some mobile garbage (always possible these days, mobile market is HUGE so companies all want to get a hit in that field, and Blizzard has failed to do so so far), itâs probably going to be at least SOME kind of Shooter.