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

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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨simple@piefed.social⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.eurogamer.net/blizzard-reportedly-partnering-with-nexon-to-revive-starcraft

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Blizzard hasn’t been good since they sold out to Activision.

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  • washbasin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    StarCraft Brood War pro scene is still going strong! I encourage anyone curious about SC to dip back into the active pro scene. A new season of ASL (GSL of old) is going to start in the next month, or so. And for the sickos, Artosis has a daily YouTube of matches. His enthusiasm is unmatched.

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  • RainbowBlite@piefed.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Firing up the new Starcraft shooter, the female voice in your coms says: “Run down this hallway, you’re going to need to prove you know how to crouch and jump over obstacles before you can learn how to switch weapon modes!”

      yeah, I am gonna need something really special to get excited about another FPS shooter no matter what the wallpaper looks like.

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  • Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Let’s take something arguably genre defining and turn it into a fad chaser! Great idea.

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    • atomicorange@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Let’s take everything the fans love about Starcraft and throw it away. Once we have a soulless aesthetic husk remaining we can slap it in to any piece of shit and count on nostalgia to bring in the buyers!

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Something needs to fill the gaping hole left by Concord’s death.

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    • Makhno@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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?

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      • Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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  • grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • Bakkoda@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do you even cell phone bro?

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  • teft@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Give us Ghost you cowards.

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    • dai@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can play it on the original Xbox, there was a leak maybe 2020 of a prerelease / wip. 

      I should grab some screencaptures of the ingame, but I’m sure there are plenty out there anyway. 

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t get my hopes up for StarCraft: Ghost again! 😩

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    • regdog@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      [Two years from now] “Don’t you guys have phones?”

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Current Blizzard wouldn’t have cancelled Ghost.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        But will it be good?

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  • gravitas@lem.ugh.im ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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?

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    • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do you guys not have phones?

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sure, why the heck not 🤷

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  • network_switch@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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 in terms of universal disappointments over the story

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    • Dupelet@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • bishoponarope@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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 disable 3 though, boy was I unimpressed.

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  • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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!

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  • Pistcow@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Now with less SA” -Blizzard, probably.

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Saudi Arabia or Sexual Assault?

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  • meerstyler@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is it gonna be pay-to-win?

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    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Pay to buy, pay to play, pay to get upgrades, pay to get the best ending, pay to not play. (You will have to use premium currency to set the game down for more than a day or lose all progress.)

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  • JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      First time hearing about this. It sure looks promising.

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  • Redacted@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    God damnit

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