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Chris_Havoc
United States596 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
Philippines15 Posts
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Charoisaur
Germany15875 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 States596 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
Canada16520 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
Germany1886 Posts
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jinjin5000
United States1391 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 States13961 Posts
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Waxangel
United States33120 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 States10660 Posts
A new generation! | ||
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goody153
44028 Posts
This would be a step in a good direction | ||
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iFU.pauline
France1437 Posts
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Vision_
848 Posts
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Harris1st
Germany6752 Posts
On March 30 2025 18:05 Toshinou-Kyouko wrote: can't wait for the starcraft gacha game with SSR Kerrigan on a school girl outfit That depiction is right on the money! Now I can't get it outta my head. But honestly, for me, everything is better than just letting it die. | ||
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M3t4PhYzX
Poland4138 Posts
On March 31 2025 15:21 iFU.pauline wrote: If that means more people playing Brood War. That's cool. My thoughts exactly. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland24083 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 At least something shelved may at some point be retrieved from the shelf. Many a franchise has went from merely dormant to dead through association with sub-par products that bomb. I don’t know if I think that is really a huge worry for me here, but it can get worse. It’s an intriguing, albeit confusing time in many ways. Microsoft have done a decent job in the RTS space in recent years, and even with their new acquisitions, some decent-ish stuff. WC3 got a little love, still not quite there, but it’s close enough to what it shoulda been at launch, least features wise. But SC is the jewel in the crown and it’s, nothing really? Quite strange to me. Of the two, I’d have thought SC2 would get more love than WC3 if I was to bet on it at the time. Or do both, or neither, but I wouldn’t have expected WC3 to get a look and not SC2 | ||
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Harris1st
Germany6752 Posts
On March 31 2025 18:40 WombaT wrote: At least something shelved may at some point be retrieved from the shelf. Many a franchise has went from merely dormant to dead through association with sub-par products that bomb. I don’t know if I think that is really a huge worry for me here, but it can get worse. It’s an intriguing, albeit confusing time in many ways. Microsoft have done a decent job in the RTS space in recent years, and even with their new acquisitions, some decent-ish stuff. WC3 got a little love, still not quite there, but it’s close enough to what it shoulda been at launch, least features wise. But SC is the jewel in the crown and it’s, nothing really? Quite strange to me. Of the two, I’d have thought SC2 would get more love than WC3 if I was to bet on it at the time. Or do both, or neither, but I wouldn’t have expected WC3 to get a look and not SC2 Starcraft has the bigger RTS crowd but Warcraft is a way bigger IP in general so it actually makes senso IMO | ||
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Toshinou-Kyouko
Philippines15 Posts
On March 31 2025 17:52 Harris1st wrote: That depiction is right on the money! Now I can't get it outta my head. But honestly, for me, everything is better than just letting it die. Pray that it is Nexon that gets the licensing rights so that we can have Starcraft x Blue Archive collab | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland24083 Posts
On March 31 2025 20:22 Harris1st wrote: Starcraft has the bigger RTS crowd but Warcraft is a way bigger IP in general so it actually makes senso IMO That was my argument for not fucking up Reforged in the first place, you could maybe have dragged people who love the IP to give RTS a shot. But it was such a fuckup and gigantic PR dumpster fire that I think it was somewhat squandered. I’m happy it’s getting some fixes now mind, I prefer the SCs to watch but WC3 to play so that’s all good. SC2 does have some advantages too, the infrastructure is there for a bit of new content that’s monetisable, player base is still pretty damn good etc. | ||
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