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On September 06 2026 01:58 Lazyer wrote:
omg please not nexon, they are going to try and monetize the shit out of the ip
this is what i think too, it would make sense but would also be a shame to have profit first corporate mindset types running the game, at least the way it is now they dont add anything to the game but theyre not making it worse either
basically companies now are all thinking about monetizing assets cus new projects are too expensive, and only way to monetize SC is with Korea
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I would like to remind my esteemed peers on this board that the inability to efficiently monetize the StarCraft series is the reason Blizzard has done so little with it as of late.
Your question should be whether Nexon is the type of developer who would be able to deliver a great overall game *while* providing players with ample reason to spend more money on it.
For the record, I don't know the answer to that.
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Could it be yet another bland generic soulless Unreal Engine 5 asset-store slop game? we've only had 4000 so far this year
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On September 06 2026 04:43 mindjames wrote:
Your question should be whether Nexon is the type of developer who would be able to deliver a great overall game *while* providing players with ample reason to spend more money on it.
Just search "Blue Archive" and imagine if they'll do the same for starcraft.
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On September 06 2026 08:26 tankgirl wrote:
Could it be yet another bland generic soulless Unreal Engine 5 asset-store slop game? we've only had 4000 so far this year
I dont know what you mean... XD
Regarding discussion here: why should they not do the shooter? SC3 we would have had some Idea already, dont you think? With the failure of Stormgate, the prospects of zerospace and others, RTS makes not much sense for Blizzard at least...
I would looooove a Story-driven RPG in Starcraft Universe like Baldurs Gate 3, but nobody ever does what I want :-D
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On September 06 2026 19:00 Lambertus wrote:Show nested quote +On September 06 2026 08:26 tankgirl wrote:
Could it be yet another bland generic soulless Unreal Engine 5 asset-store slop game? we've only had 4000 so far this year I dont know what you mean... XD
then you havent been paying attention... XD
https://www.igdb.com/game_engines/unreal-engine-5
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On September 06 2026 20:16 tankgirl wrote:Show nested quote +On September 06 2026 19:00 Lambertus wrote:On September 06 2026 08:26 tankgirl wrote:
Could it be yet another bland generic soulless Unreal Engine 5 asset-store slop game? we've only had 4000 so far this year I dont know what you mean... XD then you havent been paying attention... XD https://www.igdb.com/game_engines/unreal-engine-5
:-D Sorry, I should have marked is as irony or sarkasm :-D I did know what you mean :-D
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I will play this game, whatever it is. The real question is, will I sink in thousands of hours? I highly doubt it
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I wonder how they will try to get more out of their IPs with any new games. They have had problems with that for a long time. Diablo seems to get new expansions regularly now, so that is a possible model. Using the same engine for more games seems possible too. If they do RTS, then they could easily do both Warcraft and StarCraft at the same time.
If it is a shooter, there seem to be few options. Considering the gap between games and styles, having at least a glorified tutorial as a single-player or co-op campaign would make sense and allow expansion in future. Also, Overwatch got quite a lot of criticism for missing PvE at the start and failing to deliver it later, so they probably would not want to repeat that. For the multiplayer part of a shooter, the question is PvE/Co-op or PvP. PvE has a lot of more recent examples they could pull from. They also provide a common expansion path for the future. PvP is a much harder market to get into, especially if you want to make the game competitive-focused. It is also hard to see them doing anything similar to Overwatch and competing with themselves. Much easier to see them do more casual and bigger player count stuff.
One thing I really hope for is that the game will not only allow playing as Terran. Protoss and Zerg lose so much if they are dedicated to being just enemies to slay.
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You could always start with a PvE game and expand later to a PvEvP or even PvP game when you have an active and wanting playerbase.
Helldiver 2 devs were asked hundreds of times to make a PvP mode for example.
My dream game would be a fully fleshed out C&C Renegade in the Starcraft universe. Large scale PvP with vehicles and stuff
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I'll eat my hat if it's anything RTS related.
Not going to rehash the point made earlier that the developer that is developing the game has next to no RTS experience but plenty of FPS experience the other point is Blizzard hasn't made a new solely PC game for yonks.And RTS does not transition well to console or mobile.I just can't see it at this stage unless they dumb it down massively for the console market.
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Grubby announced a "WarCraft III Rebirth Invitational" tournament that will take place right after Blizzcon (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/srfwtmEvNis).
Interestingly, Grubby says that there will be "a special twist that changes how the players will need to approach the game" and that he cannot yet (prior to Blizzcon) reveal what that change is. The prize pool is also sponsored by Blizzard.
I'd interpret this as strongly suggesting that WarCraft III will receive a non-trivial update.
Which makes it a little more plausible that Blizzard could also be working on something for Brood War. I recall a few months ago EonZerg asked the community what kind of QOL changes they'd like. Maybe high-level players like himself were consulted about this back then?
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Seen random article mentioning a 3rd person shooter adventure with a gears s style multiplayer as well.
As for war3, blizzard utterly failed reforged. But bw remastered is ok (despite the broken promise of 2v2).
I m very skeptical blizzard will do anything with it, but also i kinda hope they leave us alone.
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On September 07 2026 23:08 WGT-Baal wrote:
Seen random article mentioning a 3rd person shooter adventure with a gears s style multiplayer as well.
As for war3, blizzard utterly failed reforged. But bw remastered is ok (despite the broken promise of 2v2).
I m very skeptical blizzard will do anything with it, but also i kinda hope they leave us alone.
Bw remaster is not ok. It is fantastic. That despite the orthodoxy of the majority of TL who were burying it before launch and wanted to stick to 1999 graphics... So I hope they won't leave us alone but actually fix bw racial imbalance.
W3 was a shitshow however. But bw and D2 proved blizzard learned from it.
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These remastered, definitive editions, old-school, and classic versions of the games show that you can do well by making upgrades and releasing new content for older games. They probably have a lot of old ideas archived. WoW is expected to announce a Classic+ version at this BlizzCon. It is quite clearly on Blizzard's radar. Thus, making an RTS using an updated SC2 engine would not be that odd an idea. AoE2 gets new expansions regularly thanks to these versions. Hell, Nova Covert Ops exists. Expectations for such projects would need to be much lower than making a totally new engine with entirely new assets. If the leaked Warcraft Chronicles RTS is happening, doing it that way would not be revolutionary. Just create big enough buzz through marketing.
Anyway, any new release, regardless of genre, will direct new players to older StarCraft games as people want to get more into the IP. Unfortunately, the balance is a mess currently.
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On September 08 2026 00:42 Legan wrote:
These remastered, definitive editions, old-school, and classic versions of the games show that you can do well by making upgrades and releasing new content for older games. They probably have a lot of old ideas archived. WoW is expected to announce a Classic+ version at this BlizzCon. It is quite clearly on Blizzard's radar. Thus, making an RTS using an updated SC2 engine would not be that odd an idea. AoE2 gets new expansions regularly thanks to these versions. Hell, Nova Covert Ops exists. Expectations for such projects would need to be much lower than making a totally new engine with entirely new assets. If the leaked Warcraft Chronicles RTS is happening, doing it that way would not be revolutionary. Just create big enough buzz through marketing.
Anyway, any new release, regardless of genre, will direct new players to older StarCraft games as people want to get more into the IP. Unfortunately, the balance is a mess currently.
Holyshit. That balance mess is affecting proly the 0.10% of the the playerbase. I can promess to you that until you reach ASL leveL the chance you face that balance is non existent. Unless we are talking about Starcraft 2.
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On September 08 2026 01:03 [sc1f]eonzerg wrote:Show nested quote +On September 08 2026 00:42 Legan wrote:
These remastered, definitive editions, old-school, and classic versions of the games show that you can do well by making upgrades and releasing new content for older games. They probably have a lot of old ideas archived. WoW is expected to announce a Classic+ version at this BlizzCon. It is quite clearly on Blizzard's radar. Thus, making an RTS using an updated SC2 engine would not be that odd an idea. AoE2 gets new expansions regularly thanks to these versions. Hell, Nova Covert Ops exists. Expectations for such projects would need to be much lower than making a totally new engine with entirely new assets. If the leaked Warcraft Chronicles RTS is happening, doing it that way would not be revolutionary. Just create big enough buzz through marketing.
Anyway, any new release, regardless of genre, will direct new players to older StarCraft games as people want to get more into the IP. Unfortunately, the balance is a mess currently. Holyshit. That balance mess is affecting proly the 0.10% of the the playerbase. I can promess to you that until you reach ASL leveL the chance you face that balance is non existent. Unless we are talking about Starcraft 2.
Ah. Yes. I mean SC2. In BW, people are more likely to run into other issues they have. Even in SC2, people will register balance mostly through the current discussion first.
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New expansion for BW? I'll take it. SC3 as well. SC goes XCOM? Hell, I'll take anything at this point except more mobile games.
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Watch them just finally release 2v2 in BW lol
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Would be funnier if it was a 3v3 BGH ladder and equally likely IMO.
Two ideas not yet mentioned in the thread or I forgot that they were:
- StarCraft 3 but it's actually a new version of 3v3 BGH which plays more like one of those Clash of Clans or auto-turret type games.
- StarCraft DOTA.
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