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What will be the future of Starcraft
Since the introduction of the first Starcraft game thirteen years ago, the Starcraft franchise has become one of the most popular RTS game within esports. With the coming of the Heart of the swarm extension beginning of next year and Legacy of the void possibly another one to two years after, It makes you wonder is that the expire day of the Esport? what will be the future of the Starcraft?
The game itself had quite a long life, thirteen years and counting and still popular, a rarity among RTS games, consider that the story still staying true to the original. But the popularity usually don’t last forever, especially games that are sequels to the original ones. Sure, the developers can drag the storyline for possibly another ten, twenty year. But who can still remember and play the sequel of a game with story that’s just seems to drag on forever? With the possibly passing of the Starcraft franchise as a competitive Esports game in a foreseeable future, what will be the next best thing?
League of legend? Dota 2? Command and conquer? Age of Empire? Or one of the hundreds FPS games?
Who knows.
On one hand, maybe I am totally off. Like Warcraft universe, the developers at Blizzard might already starting to create the next “World of the Starcraft” or thinking about the next Starcraft III, but on the other hand, will you still want to play them? With the story that becoming more and more predictable and structure more and more similar to Warcraft it’s gonna be a hard choice to make.
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In the end, I want to conclude that since all the stuffs are just predictions and are not gonna get realized for another 5~6 years even if they are accurate. Fellow team liquid member, what are your dreams for the future of Esport?
 
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I don't play Starcraft for the story, and I doubt most people here do. They could sell SC3 to me without a campaign and I honestly wouldn't care so long as there is a thriving and active multiplayer server.
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World of StarCraft, a mix of EVE (for spaced-based MMO) and the RTS side of StarCraft on planets.
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Creation of any epic game that clearly goes head-to-toe, or even better, to that of Starcraft will be joyous occasion. Even if that means Starcraft is swept out from the golden pedestal of honour...
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League of legend? Dota 2? Command and conquer? Age of Empire?
No RTS game will ever suprass Starcraft as an e-sport. Ever. AoE, C&C, DoW have all been in WCG and none of them ever came close to having a professional scene on par with a blizzard RTS.
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Oh boy here we go.
Starcraft isn't esports. Esports will continue without Starcraft because Esports doesn't need Starcraft.
The success or failure of one game (Starcraft 2) will not directly influence the success or failure of a different game (LoL, DotA 2, HoN, SSFIV:AE, UMvC3, CS:GO, QL, Halo, CoD, GoW, WoW, BLC, and of course the best eSports game motherfuckin' Trackmania, etc.)
It's nice to have Starcraft 2 be successful, but it's not saving esports.
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Do you really think the popularity of starcraft comes from the story ??
They could do SC3 without single player mode, most of starcraft players wouldn't actually care.
talking about ESPORTS and storyline in the same paragraph is just wrong.
it's all about gameplay
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Esports is heavily story related, just not in the sense you're thinking. What makes starcraft completely entrancing is the same reason why many people who have completely dropped playing the game still watch it. The story, the drama, and the completely epic games. We love to see lim-jin rok, and the triple bunker rush will forever be an unsurpassed legend. We loved (or hated) to see the maestro dominate literally everyone up until he met bisu and firebathero. We love to see the kong line come within inches of grabbing golds, only to be met with a 2-3 defeat and fall back in line with an exasperated sigh.
Story not only makes esports, it makes sports.
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Starcraft isn't esports. Esports will continue without Starcraft because Esports doesn't need Starcraft.
well if not completely esport then I would say that starcraft is basically about 50% of esport. Without it and the share of all the sc and sc2 tournaments, esport would not be what it is today. But all good thing have an end. and the ending is in the foreseeable future. What will those people who survive on starcraft do? cause i am not sure if any pro game team give out retirement packages.
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