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Waxangel
United States33326 Posts
According to gaming news website Playforum.net, major Korean game publishers such as Nexon, NCSoft, Krafton, and Netmarble are competing to license the IP rights to StarCraft and and publish new games in the setting. Some publishers are said to have travelled to Blizzard headquarters to make presentations. Playforum also reports that publishing rights could extend to diverse genres such as RPG and FPS. 
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10324 Posts
Or maybe this is something that's been happening over the years already, just more now that Blizzard is, you know Would be very curious if they try to make a SC3... Of course, a gacha game for SC could be very interesting and cool too | ||
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Waxangel
United States33326 Posts
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CicadaSC
United States1558 Posts
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Trogdor87
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CicadaSC
United States1558 Posts
On March 30 2025 12:12 Trogdor87 wrote: Honestly let them do it, someone's gotta continue to build that universe outside of RTS fans i dont think anyone cares about starcraft. i could see it being a major flop and kill the IP for good. | ||
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OmniSkepticSC
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Ludwigvan
Germany2371 Posts
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Vindicare605
United States16056 Posts
Starcraft wasn't a profitable part of the company when Microsoft acquired Blizzard. They're not about to spend big money on big investments with it (that means no Starcraft 3) but licensing it out to make spin off games with other developers that's something that Microsoft would definitely sign off on. And considering how much the Korean gaming community loves and respects Starcraft, I'd trust them to make spin off brands that would at least be keeping in the spirit of the originals. | ||
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Chris_Havoc
United States600 Posts
I'm worried that it could end up resulting in some quick "cash-grab" games with gacha elements in deference of the Korean respect for the StarCraft franchise. If the games are rubbish, then Blizzard has sellers' remorse and shelves the IP for good. Now I'm not saying this would be like when Acclaim licensed and made six crappy Mary-Kate & Ashley Olson games 20 years ago, but you get the idea.The risk/reward on this is high. | ||
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Toshinou-Kyouko
Philippines138 Posts
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Charoisaur
Germany15914 Posts
On March 30 2025 17:19 Chris_Havoc wrote: This is one of those things that could work out, or it could seriously backfire depending on the quality of the games. I'm worried that it could end up resulting in some quick "cash-grab" games with gacha elements in deference of the Korean respect for the StarCraft franchise. If the games are rubbish, then Blizzard has sellers' remorse and shelves the IP for good. Now I'm not saying this would be like when Acclaim licensed and made six crappy Mary-Kate & Ashley Olson games 20 years ago, but you get the idea.The risk/reward on this is high. But they have already shelved the IP. I don't know how the situation could get worse | ||
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Chris_Havoc
United States600 Posts
On March 30 2025 18:17 Charoisaur wrote: But they have already shelved the IP. I don't know how the situation could get worse Not entirely true. Blizzard recently released a StarCraft-themed card set for Hearthstone. So Blizzard is still thinking about StarCraft, albeit not much. | ||
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JeanPreez
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada16669 Posts
Ubisoft just auctioned off it's 3 biggest IPs. From 2022-2024, Atari resurrected many ancient IPs and done an amazing job. I hope the trend continues. First thing they need to do is fix Jim Raynor. He should be a beat up, broken down, aging guy. Like this guy here... ![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/bZCfAgQ.png) They botched Raynor's physical appearance in SC2. He was perfect in SC1. Raynor is supposed to be congruent with the compromised detectives played by Jason Patric in the movies Rush and Narc. He is not supposed to be some amazing super power guy. | ||
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Creager
Germany1889 Posts
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jinjin5000
United States1412 Posts
Krafton- least bad, but only flagship is pubg and recently inzoi , no real history Ncsoft-p2w mmoslop notorious even among korean p2w sphere Nexon- best studios but their flagship monetization is p2w like mabinogi/fifa online/dungeon and fighter/maplestory ect Netmarble-p2w gacha cashgrab slops | ||
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Cricketer12
United States13972 Posts
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Waxangel
United States33326 Posts
On March 30 2025 17:19 Chris_Havoc wrote: This is one of those things that could work out, or it could seriously backfire depending on the quality of the games. I'm worried that it could end up resulting in some quick "cash-grab" games with gacha elements in deference of the Korean respect for the StarCraft franchise. If the games are rubbish, then Blizzard has sellers' remorse and shelves the IP for good. Now I'm not saying this would be like when Acclaim licensed and made six crappy Mary-Kate & Ashley Olson games 20 years ago, but you get the idea.The risk/reward on this is high. I think in the mobile-only space, there's not much chance of a backfire. As we saw with how Diablo Immortal (heavily developed by Netease) didn't do much to hurt Diablo 4's sales, gamers easily compartmentalize away the mobile crap into a separate category. I think Blizzard would have to start leaning REALLY heavily into licensing out predatory mobile games for it to hurt their reputation/sales, and even then, they might preserve their rep if they can keep their PC/console titles relatively 'clean.' If one of the KR devs released a terribly predatory StarCraft mobile game that did like 90% of its business in east Asia (like many of their other games), I don't think Western gamers would even notice (and Eastern gamers wouldn't care because they're masochists consumers who are resigned to their defeat at the hands of hyper-capitalism). | ||
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TelecoM
United States10668 Posts
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