Comment on Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal approved by UK regulators
toastus@feddit.de 1 year ago
Usually I am against huge mergers like this because they rarely benefit the customer, but ActiBlizzard was about as bad as it gets anyway.
Selfishly I hope maybe at least one decent RTS might come from this before everything gets enshittyfied again.
I realize though that OG Warcraft/Starcract were not the big motivators for MS so the chance is probably slim.
Microsoft still supports AoE2, and that game is going on 22+ years. Some of the other stuff they’ve released has been a bit hit and miss, but they at least tried to do something fresh.
I’ll take that over ActiBlizz dropping support for the SC2 pro scene for no good reason other than “profitability” any day.
Hell, maybe they can fix WoW classic while they’re at it, and say what you will about the guy but if I understand correctly even Chris Metzen is coming back.
Damdy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You should look into Stormgate.
It’s an upcoming rts from frost giant studios which consists of some of the original blizzard team responsible for StarCraft.
toastus@feddit.de 1 year ago
I actually got a spot in the closed alpha this month.
It feels pretty good so far even though unfortunately I can’t play as much as I would like due to my job and aspects of my personal life taking a lot time right now.
I plan on getting at least a couple more games in this weekend.
Damdy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s cool. I was never very good myself but I’d like to play around in the noobs ranks. I just hope there’s a good story mode.