Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

Don't get my hopes up for StarCraft: Ghost again! I know you'll just disappoint me.

[redacted@lemmy.zip]

God damnit

[rtxn@lemmy.world]

Something needs to fill the gaping hole left behind after Concord's death.

[bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de]

Current Blizzard wouldn't have cancelled Ghost.

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

But will it be good?

[makhno@lemmy.world]

Why would branching out with a successful IP be bad? Are you mad at all the Warhammer games? Does Vermintide's existence cheapen the Total War games?

[bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de]

I wouldn't hold my breath.

[sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works]

You’re arguing against a position nobody stated. My criticism isn’t that an IP ever appears in another genre. It is the pattern of publishers repurposing established strategy franchises into monetization-friendly live-service shooters because that market is larger and more predictable.

Warhammer is a poor comparison. Games like Vermintide didn’t replace or redefine Warhammer; they existed alongside a still-supported core genre identity. The RTS space around StarCraft has effectively been abandoned for years. So when the first meaningful revival rumor turns out to be a shooter, I read it less as expansion and more as substitution.

If Blizzard announced a new RTS and also a shooter spin-off, I would not be critical. The reaction is about genre displacement, not genre diversification.

[pistcow@lemmy.world]

"Now with less SA" -Blizzard, probably.

[regdog@lemmy.world]

[Two years from now]: "Don't you guys have phones?"

[network_switch@lemmy.ml]

Question will be if there's going to be a single player component. Back then StarCraft had a beloved universe and characters. Post StarCraft 2 - the universe and those beloved characters aren't so beloved anymore. SC2 and expansions may have been worse than Veilguard for their fanbases in terms of universal disappointment over the stories

[dupelet@piefed.social]

I'm just glad I got a tiny bit of closure for Raynor and Kerrigan before Blizzard went full enshittification

[jakojakojako13@piefed.social]

ZeroSpace you're our only hope. Please be the Tempest Rising to Command and Conquer that StarCraft needs.

[sundray@lemmus.org]

Sure, why the heck not

[teft@piefed.social]

Give us Ghost you cowards.

[don_alforno@feddit.org]

Weird idea but bear with me: They could, and this will shock some of you, I hope you're sitting in a safe position ... They could revive Starcraft as fucking Starcraft!

[bishoponarope@lemmy.world]

Was it really so poorly received? I gotta admit I enjoyed SC2 and was happy to finish out the story, but was much less critical of games etc in my younger years, and have not gone back to play it again since. The ending on diablo 3 though, boy was I unimpressed.

[gravitas@lem.ugh.im]

So are they going to do another game thats pretty much just a reskin like when they turned that chinese mobile game into a diablo game?

[grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works]

After everything they've done to their other key franchises... Surely no one is going to fall for this, right?

[rainbowblite@piefed.ca]

I want an awesome RTS, like Wings of Liberty, but I would absolutely play a StarCraft shooter with a really good story and gameplay. I have zero interest in another Overwatch or extraction shooter. I expect another low-effort reskin.