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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33241 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-03-30 08:08:10
March 29 2025 22:07 GMT
#1
https://www.playforum.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=500848

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
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10318 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-03-29 22:20:29
March 29 2025 22:19 GMT
#2
Wow very big interesting news??

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
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33241 Posts
March 29 2025 22:23 GMT
#3
I'd take it with a grain of salt for now as no other media is corroborating it. But at the same time, my gut feeling is that there's at least a little bit of fire behind the smoke, since this isn't the sort of thing people casually write speculative articles about.
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CicadaSC
Profile Joined January 2018
United States1485 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-03-31 04:10:02
March 30 2025 00:10 GMT
#4
Starcraft rpg or fps made by a third party company? No thanks. I don't even want Blizzard making that. Why is it so hard to get SC3?
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Trogdor87
Profile Joined August 2024
3 Posts
March 30 2025 03:12 GMT
#5
Honestly let them do it, someone's gotta continue to build that universe
CicadaSC
Profile Joined January 2018
United States1485 Posts
March 30 2025 03:13 GMT
#6
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
Profile Joined November 2023
19 Posts
March 30 2025 05:08 GMT
#7
I wonder if this has something to do with why we have zero news for anything... maybe Blizzard has decided to wash their hands of the whole thing and let someone else take over, and they're in the middle of the process and have not made final decisions yet?
Ludwigvan
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany2371 Posts
March 30 2025 05:44 GMT
#8
they already did it with tabletop. An upcoming StarCraft tabletop game was announced a couple of days ago.

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Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States16055 Posts
March 30 2025 08:05 GMT
#9
This makes a lot of sense.

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
Profile Joined August 2016
United States600 Posts
March 30 2025 08:19 GMT
#10
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.
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Toshinou-Kyouko
Profile Joined November 2024
Philippines91 Posts
March 30 2025 09:05 GMT
#11
can't wait for the starcraft gacha game with SSR Kerrigan on a school girl outfit
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Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany15883 Posts
March 30 2025 09:17 GMT
#12
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
Profile Joined August 2016
United States600 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-03-30 09:23:30
March 30 2025 09:23 GMT
#13
On March 30 2025 18:17 Charoisaur wrote:
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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


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
Profile Joined March 2025
1 Post
March 30 2025 11:21 GMT
#14
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JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada16647 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-03-30 17:25:02
March 30 2025 16:31 GMT
#15
If these are fake rumours then they might be used to bring MS to the negotiating table.

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...
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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
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany1889 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-03-30 17:47:44
March 30 2025 17:47 GMT
#16
Not sure what to make of this, but if it re-kindles the fire to SOME extent, resulting in some additional support regarding the esports scene for any of the two games, that'd be great, although I just fear they want to milk the shit out of the popularity by creating SC-themed gacha games or some other MTX-loaded bs on their domestic market.
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jinjin5000
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1400 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-03-30 20:20:14
March 30 2025 20:18 GMT
#17
It's funny to see people more enthusiastic over this on foreign sphere (reddit) than korea

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
Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13969 Posts
March 30 2025 21:42 GMT
#18
Oh boy. I sure love Korean Mobile Games
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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33241 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-03-30 22:21:01
March 30 2025 22:19 GMT
#19
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
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10667 Posts
March 31 2025 04:14 GMT
#20
This could be amazing, although I don't know if we would want Nexon having the IP rights to StarCraft lol, I haven't played any Nexon games in a long time, but I feel like there is too much P2W aspects with Nexon games as far as I know from previous experiences, but it still sounds like it could be awesome!

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