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CicadaSC
Profile Joined January 2018
United States1926 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-06-07 14:42:27
June 07 2019 14:41 GMT
#41
no one cares about any of these games. just give me warcraft 4, starcraft 3, or a new RTS IP. remastered games are fanservice. singleplayers are flashes in the pan.
Remember that we all come from a place of passion!!
renaissanceMAN
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1840 Posts
June 07 2019 15:07 GMT
#42
I'm not upset that they're exploring other types of games, but oof, this sounded like it would have been a mess...
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Tchado
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Jordan1831 Posts
June 07 2019 15:20 GMT
#43
Id actually love to see an FPS set in the SC universe , hopefully we might in the future. But for now I think its a good call , they need Diablo 4.
chipmonklord17
Profile Joined February 2011
United States11944 Posts
June 07 2019 15:40 GMT
#44
Why are they developing an Overwatch 2 when the first one is doing so well in its formative years?
Bleak
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Turkey3059 Posts
June 07 2019 15:44 GMT
#45
On June 07 2019 11:26 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Just want to say that this project was being headed up by Dustin Browder, and between this and Heroes of the Storm and arguably the foundational design vision of SC2 (further discussion about that is happening in the Starcraft II - A Lifecycle thread), seems to be a tough streak for DBro


Terrible, terrible damage.
"I am a beacon of knowledge blazing out across a black sea of ignorance. "
j2digital
Profile Joined January 2018
11 Posts
June 07 2019 15:48 GMT
#46
I'm so sick of Blizzard. I really enjoy the StarCraft universe more than the others. This would have been a pleasant surprise and instead its just another disappointment in a long list from them.

They were probably having a hard time figuring how they could nickle and dime their potential player base without alienating them "too" hard. Or even though they said it was using the OW engine they probably were going to try to shove it on a phone behind pay to win walls.

Funny they are making an OW2 instead of just regularly releasing content for the first one. I just think- Fortnite is doing great for years and its the same map? Because they constantly add new seasons, new weapons, and change things on the map/have events. I don't even play or enjoy Fortnite but they have it figured out.

Blizzard is probably are having a hard time monetizing OW this late into its life and didn't build it modular enough to add some of the above. So instead of a FPS SC game: Welcome OW2 where you pay for the (same) game AND have payable seasons! And probably payable characters! Why not payable maps too!? Why isn't the amount of time you play charged too? Who knows what mess they'll make of D4.

Blizzard is a joke.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26972 Posts
June 07 2019 15:55 GMT
#47
This thread would be a lot better if statements like ‘nobody wants x’ would be replaced with ‘I would prefer to see x.’

I’d absolutely prefer to see some new mainline RTS titles myself, but to make out there’s no demand for other IPs or new ones outside of that genre is preposterous
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Jan1997
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
Norway671 Posts
June 07 2019 16:09 GMT
#48
I don't think this would've been a good project, but now we will never know for sure.
Do something today that your future self will be thankful for.
Doink
Profile Joined April 2017
75 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-06-07 16:19:56
June 07 2019 16:17 GMT
#49
Overwatch 2?!?! LOL
I thought the hype was gone years ago.
Hero shooters are sooooooooo boring.
Sacrificing. a SC game for that is lol
franzji
Profile Joined September 2013
United States583 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-06-07 16:57:35
June 07 2019 16:56 GMT
#50
They could just make a zerg mission pack.....................

also that overwatch 2 stuff, my guess is it's gonna be a large overwatch expansion you have to buy or something not a standalone game.
Taf the Ghost
Profile Joined December 2010
United States11751 Posts
June 07 2019 17:27 GMT
#51
Apparently a FPS in the SC universe is this idea that Blizzard likes for about 6 months, then they like something else better. What a weird turn of events.

Still, Blizzard is in something of a pretty serious mess right now, and it's probably not looking too good going forward.
FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
June 07 2019 18:05 GMT
#52
You are all so negative...
#1 KT Rolster fanboy. KT BEST KT ! Hail to KT playoffs Zergs ! Unofficial french translator for SlayerS_`Boxer` biography "Crazy as me".
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Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
June 07 2019 18:49 GMT
#53
Would have been very intrigued to see what came of this though. Reading articles and what not it states that Blizzard are pushing the Overwatch engine on all their new games and want to push old games onto it as well. Overwatch FPS game with StarCraft units sounds good to me. Would been like a HOTS meets Overwatch.

Instead we get Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2? Like what Overwatch has barely been out that long and the last 12 months has dive bombed but they have also made a whole massive financially draining franchise league of it...seems bit crazy to be like yeh lets make Overwatch 2?
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Vutalisk
Profile Joined August 2016
United States680 Posts
June 07 2019 18:55 GMT
#54
Well, can't miss what never comes.
BadHabits
Profile Joined June 2012
Canada45 Posts
June 07 2019 19:39 GMT
#55
this is good news if they make diablo 4 dark and gothic again, none of that floaty cartoon garbage they released with d3.
i'm just here to have fun
washikie
Profile Joined February 2011
United States752 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-06-07 19:43:04
June 07 2019 19:41 GMT
#56
On June 07 2019 18:57 InfCereal wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2019 11:26 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Just want to say that this project was being headed up by Dustin Browder, and between this and Heroes of the Storm and arguably the foundational design vision of SC2 (further discussion about that is happening in the Starcraft II - A Lifecycle thread), seems to be a tough streak for DBro


That's not fair to DB. Heroes of the storm is a fun game, could definitely have been a blizzard brawler type of game.

The *foundation* of SC2 is fantastic, but it was marred by forcing it in a direction it wasn't designed to go. The whole idea in WoL was small maps, low eco, high action, and it did that pretty well. That's just not what the community wnated.



I disagree I played a lot of wol and I think the game today is allot better than back then. Just look at how bad some of the matchups were on the small low eco maps that blizzard started with. Remember steps of war where Terran could realistically push from their base to yours with bunkers turrets and tanks? Rember the 4 gate PvP meta? Remember 2 rax meta? Rember 5 rax reaper meta? Rember how underpowered Zerg was prior to queen buffs and bigger maps and how over powered they were after. Wol was fun but problem ridden the game is so much better today.
"when life gives Hero lemons he makes carriers" -Artosis
parrotpitaya
Profile Joined January 2019
Germany37 Posts
June 07 2019 20:23 GMT
#57
DO YOU GUYS NOT HAVE PHONES?
mierin
Profile Joined August 2010
United States4943 Posts
June 07 2019 20:28 GMT
#58
OW2...I thought the only reason it was still around as an esport was that Blizzard lost money investing in it. I guess I was very wrong about that.
JD, Stork, Calm, Hyuk Fighting!
darhumewin
Profile Joined October 2013
United States16 Posts
June 07 2019 21:11 GMT
#59
On June 07 2019 10:38 riotjune wrote:
Were they spending entire meetings focusing on the design of the marine's boot again



probably
MockHamill
Profile Joined March 2010
Sweden1798 Posts
June 07 2019 21:37 GMT
#60
Overwatch is pure crap. I get car sick even trying to play the game for one minute.
FPS is boring as hell.
Diablo is mildly entertaining but lacks substance.

The only Blizzard games I have ever liked is SC2 and WC2.
WC3 is one of the worst games in gaming history. It is not even a RTS but it pretends to be. It is a gloried action game more shallow then the Kardashians. It is also spawned the MOBA genre which is unforgivable.

Blizzard was a great company but those days are gone. I doubt we will ever get another SC2 from them.
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