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

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • atomicorange@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • Makhno@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • regdog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Current Blizzard wouldn’t have cancelled Ghost.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But will it be good?

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  • RainbowBlite@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • JTskulk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        FPS shooter

        First Person Shooter shooter

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  • teft@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Give us Ghost you cowards.

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    • dai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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. 

      ImageImage

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  • grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you even cell phone bro?

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You think you do but you don’t

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is a slight historical re-write.

      Blizzard’s parent company since ‘98 (Vivendi) was the larger of two companies at the time of the merger in ‘08, and put forward $2b towards the merger vs. Activision’s $1b.

      Vivendi remained the majority shareholder of the new entity, and chose to appoint Bobby Kotick as the CEO.

      Activision-Blizzard didn’t buy-out majority control until ‘13 - well after the enshittification began.

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  • gravitas@lem.ugh.im ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you guys not have phones?

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It‘s so funny to me that Nexon is now known as the Arc Raiders owner. They threw money at Embark Studios and had nothing to do with development otherwise so don‘t expect anything great coming out of this.

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    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They will forever remind me of Shattered Galaxy and how there has never been anything else like it.

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sure, why the heck not 🤷

    Image 🤷

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  • network_switch@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • network_switch@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        People, myself included disliked the star crossed lover turn 2 went with following Brood War. Sharp shift from Raynor pledging to kill Karrigan to then being a depressed drunk wanting to save her. That added to the tone being way lighter. Protoss became maybe too high elfy

        Terrans, I feel like they flanderized around a basic cowboy western aesthetic rather than anything the confederacy or UED were like in Brood War. A lot more competitive politics for the Terrans in the first game. A bit off that the UED didn’t return.

        Zerg became a lot less interesting in my opinion. Kerrigan was redeemed. No overmind or cerebrate intrigue. I think many had way higher expectations for a hybrid/xel’naga faction

        I remember a lot of complaints about the first 2 games story being long treks to make kerrigan not Zerg and then Zerg again. I don’t mind the end or what the Xel Naga ended up being, just the journey not having the weight of the first game. A lack of anger. Faction politics didn’t match up the anger of the first game. Felt more high fantasy to me than sci-fi

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  • Pistcow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Now with less SA” -Blizzard, probably.

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Saudi Arabia or Sexual Assault?

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  • RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Will it have cloud? What about A.I.?

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    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      …and more importantly, what about NFTs?!

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    • cmhe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If there are NPCs, there is AI.

      You should be more specific. Ask about machine generated content.

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  • washbasin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wait a sec… Brood war is the expansion for sc1.

      Are you telling me that there’s still a competitive sc1 scene? Holy fuck. What are the metas even like in that game now? What level is the meta even at??

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      • washbasin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’re in for one hell of a good time, my friend. The scene revived after SC1 Remastered and waning interest in SC2.

        Here is Artosis’ daily cast: www.youtube.com/channel/UCf0ynO5nqkPq_7Xn-973d2w

        Here is the most recent ASL (season 21 will be on this same page): www.youtube.com/channel/UCK5eBtuoj_HkdXKHNmBLAXg

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      • JTskulk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There very much is still a scene and it’s pretty popular! The meta continues to change which is insane for such an old and allegedly “figured out” game. I see pros using units in matchups that I thought were completely unplayable. There’s a new funky half-island map (Roaring Currents aka Screaming Seas) that has shown some really wild games. I’m rambling, please check it out here: www.youtube.com/@SOOPesports_EN

        I play Starcraft 2 today, but freely admit that Brood War is way more entertaining to watch!

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  • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • meerstyler@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is it gonna be pay-to-win?

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    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So Fire Warrior/Ghost?

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  • JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The what to what that what?

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      • JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        ZeroSpace is to Starcraft the same way Tempest Rising is to Command & Conquer.

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    • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      First time hearing about this. It sure looks promising.

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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    World of StarCraft lets gooooooooo!!!

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    • Abundance114@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hmm, maybe Call of Shootercraft

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  • Redacted@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    God damnit

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