So you would rather get no Starcraft games than get a Starcraft game that is not an RTS?
Because I don’t know if you’ve looked at the numbers but RTS is pretty much dead. One of the biggest RTS-s of the past 5 years was a remaster of Age of Mythology and that sold less than a million units. Starcraft 3 would have to sell something like 3 million units at launch and have an estimate of hitting at least 7 million in 2 years, because ActiBliz has certain expectation for sales and those expectations far exceed what Starcraft 2 sold in its entire lifetime. Starcraft would have to sell Diablo numbers.
I’d be very surprised if we ever saw another mainline Starcraft RTS. I don’t think we’ll be seeing another Warcraft RTS either.
So you would rather get no Starcraft games than get a Starcraft game that is not an RTS?
This is such a wild take. We are absolutely drowning in bland games built on IPs that the new devs had no care for and were simply cashing in on. In what world are you thinking we need more blatant cashgrabs with a coat of StarCraft-tinted paint? And that we’re hoping for good things from Microsoft at this point? Nah, I’m good, thanks.
I wasn’t saying that we need another blatant cash grab. I was actually implying that if you want the IP to stay even remotely relevant you need to start looking beyond the RTS genre because that genre doesn’t pay the bills.
But since you went there, yeah I’d absolutely take who knows how many cash grab attempts if it means even a chance of getting some great games. I’m going to point at Warhammer because the other person also brought it up. Warhammer 40k franchise is also full of “cash grabs”. But between those cash grabs are absolute gems like Space Marine 1 and 2, Dawn of War series, Darktide, Rogue trader. If we rejected all Warhammer games as “blatant cash grabs” we’d actually be worse off. I’m not saying whatever shooter they’re working on is going to be great or anything of the sorts, but I’m not going to instantly dismiss it because it might be a cash grab. I’ll form that opinion when I’ve actually seen something more than an industry source stating they’re working on a shooter.
So you would rather get no Starcraft games than get a Starcraft game that is not an RTS?
Because I don’t know if you’ve looked at the numbers but RTS is pretty much dead. One of the biggest RTS-s of the past 5 years was a remaster of Age of Mythology and that sold less than a million units. Starcraft 3 would have to sell something like 3 million units at launch and have an estimate of hitting at least 7 million in 2 years, because ActiBliz has certain expectation for sales and those expectations far exceed what Starcraft 2 sold in its entire lifetime. Starcraft would have to sell Diablo numbers.
I’d be very surprised if we ever saw another mainline Starcraft RTS. I don’t think we’ll be seeing another Warcraft RTS either.
This is such a wild take. We are absolutely drowning in bland games built on IPs that the new devs had no care for and were simply cashing in on. In what world are you thinking we need more blatant cashgrabs with a coat of StarCraft-tinted paint? And that we’re hoping for good things from Microsoft at this point? Nah, I’m good, thanks.
I wasn’t saying that we need another blatant cash grab. I was actually implying that if you want the IP to stay even remotely relevant you need to start looking beyond the RTS genre because that genre doesn’t pay the bills.
But since you went there, yeah I’d absolutely take who knows how many cash grab attempts if it means even a chance of getting some great games. I’m going to point at Warhammer because the other person also brought it up. Warhammer 40k franchise is also full of “cash grabs”. But between those cash grabs are absolute gems like Space Marine 1 and 2, Dawn of War series, Darktide, Rogue trader. If we rejected all Warhammer games as “blatant cash grabs” we’d actually be worse off. I’m not saying whatever shooter they’re working on is going to be great or anything of the sorts, but I’m not going to instantly dismiss it because it might be a cash grab. I’ll form that opinion when I’ve actually seen something more than an industry source stating they’re working on a shooter.