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No one is increasing their investment in the genre and many continue to pull back their investment.
But that's also because SC2 has a stranglehold on the genre. Developers are afraid to compete with Blizzard, for instance virtually all of the MMO's that tried to compete with World of Warcraft miserably failed. Why should you create a competitor to Starcraft? Starcraft 2 has the name recognition, the established professional scene and over a decade of development. It is difficult to compete with Blizzard's resources, even if the game is technically underwhelming.
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I don't like the cyclone change. Blizzard wants it to "defend additional bases or to keep the opponent contained". I think spider mines will do exactly that with much better interactions and a much higher skill ceiling than simply having a unit that kills everything armored.
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RTS GAMES DIE BECAUSE NO GOOD RTS GAMES ARE MADE, AND NOT BECAUSE THEY CANT SELL. THE REASON IS THAT THEY DONT INVEST INTO IT BECAUSE THEY DONT KNOW HOW TO MAKE A GOOD RTS TO BEGIN WITH.
It was a long time ago BROODWAR was made.
And that game TO has many flaws.
If a company
1) Knew what made a great RTS
2) Had the resources
3) Had the right staff
It would sell TONS and become the greatest esport game ever made.
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How do I play the test map?
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Would also like to know if the testmap comes to EU and with a ladder. Perhaps i would play then.
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Blizzard and DK are doing a great job.
They are doing such a great job that they need to redesign lots of stuff in the middle of an expansion. Really great job right there.
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I cannot find any post saying the test map is out.
They did say that the test map will have match making.
-edit well lol xD
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If it would be possible for the discussion of the death, or not, of the RTS genre to go somewhere else and for this thread to stay about the design changes specifically that would be great.
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Cool.
However, for me to buy the game they'd have to get rid of the macro "mechanics" (properly called boosters) like mule, spawn larva, and chrono boost, and rebalance as necessary around that.
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The new cyclones kills stuff ridiculously fast :D
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holy shit cyclones are so much fun
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lol cyclones just tested it
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On August 17 2016 04:11 Foxxan wrote:They are doing such a great job that they need to redesign lots of stuff in the middle of an expansion. Really great job right there.
Touché, I guess :D
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On August 17 2016 03:59 Grumbels wrote:Show nested quote +No one is increasing their investment in the genre and many continue to pull back their investment. But that's also because SC2 has a stranglehold on the genre. Developers are afraid to compete with Blizzard, for instance virtually all of the MMO's that tried to compete with World of Warcraft miserably failed. Why should you create a competitor to Starcraft? Starcraft 2 has the name recognition, the established professional scene and over a decade of development. It is difficult to compete with Blizzard's resources, even if the game is technically underwhelming.
ya, no one made any MMO's after WoW... because they all said..
"hey guys... let billionaire mike keep it all.. we can't compete with him"
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Can we just stop beating RTS genre dead horse? -_-
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You mean jimmyjraynor's dead horse? He's only been proclaiming the death of rts genre for years in every vaguely related thread he can find.
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if someone is going to overgeneralize that blizz and DK have ruined SC2 i'm going to put their view within the context of the entire industry.
no, it is declining it won't die. there are still new dot-eating-maze games being made even though it peaked 35 years ago. RTS will continue it won't die.
i've basically made all my points though. i've been happy with SC2 for years even as the community shrinks i still have lots of people i can play against.
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Cant chronoboost the Dt's blink research don't know it this is a glitch, and the tempest ablility is nice but i just see units runing right throw it. Don't see that much use for blink dt the prism would do a better job and sets you up with robo tech for a bit more.
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Well as long as companies will continue to make slow motion and microless RTS games, Starcraft will continue to be the best RTS.
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