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Now that Microsoft and Xbox's acquisition of Activision Blizzard has gone through, there are many fans out there calling for the return of series like StarCraft. Believe it or not, but the last entry released was the remaster of the original title back in 2017, so what are the future plans for this famous RTS series?
Speaking to Bloomberg, Blizzard president Mike Ybarra mentioned how he's definitely open to less mainstream projects as well as the possible return of StarCraft now that the deal with Microsoft has closed. There's also mention of the franchise perhaps taking a different direction, with a number of veteran RTS developers having reportedly left the company.
Whatever the next StarCraft game does end up being, according to Ybarra it's going to require a leader and team who has "vision and passion":
Mike Ybarra: “It’s not me saying, 'Go make a StarCraft game'. I need to have someone who has the vision and passion that comes with the idea, and I’ll bet on that team.”
While we haven't seen or heard anything new about StarCraft in some time, at BlizzCon this year, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer praised the series for evolving esports and live service games. Xbox also recently showed clips of StarCraft in its acquisition announcement trailer, hopefully reinforcing the fact there's more to come.
Microsoft also has its own RTS history with series like Age of Empires, and Phil himself has said on a number of occasions how he would like to see Blizzard's StarCraft series make a comeback since the Activision Blizzard acquisition was announced.
Would you like to see StarCraft make a return? Should it go beyond its RTS roots under the Xbox banner? Tell us your own thoughts in the comments.
[source bloomberg.com]
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It's like Old Blizzard was in hibernation.
@Xbox_Dashboard A lot of studios and IP went into hibernation once Activision only cared about Call of Duty and micro-transactions from Diablo/WoW/Overwatch.
Blizzard used to create history only to simply become history.
Here is hoping for a new future with new ideas that don't solely revolve around MMO/GaaS mechanics.
I'd love to see Blizzard resurrect Warcraft Adventures as a smaller project and shadow drop it one day - like how Pentiment from Obsidian just came out of nowhere to critical acclaim.
One of these days I need to go through the rest of Starcraft II. I only ever did Wings of Liberty. I somehow got Heart of the Swarm for free, but never really played it.
I have commented on plenty of Blizzard posts here in the last day or two. But a healthy Blizzard team can take Xbox/PC to places Xbox has never been before. When Blizzard is right they make some of the best games ever and games people play for decades. Do this right MS and you have a cash cow with games players will buy in the millions day 1. Yes i am a little bias in fairness as Blizzard is and always will be my favorite studio of all time. Diablo is my favorite gaming franchise of all time. 634 hours into Diablo 4 as I type this.
Put them on console. MS have the ability to do it, use the same radial design as AoE
New StarCraft is always welcome here...
Can't wait...
New StarCraft alone justifies Gamepass. Heck, bringing back old StarCraft to consoles for the first time since N64 would justify Gamepass for me.
I'm starting to worry that I'll be unalived,by the time these games from my youth come to fruition,hurry up 😂
@HonestHick my long lost brother
Nice! In the mean time set up console ports for the other StarCraft
I'm not sure if Starcraft on console would ever be the intense MP experience it is on PC with KB&M.
Though the ability to casually play through the excellent campaign would be enough for success, probably.
Having said that, nothing stopping a KB&M being hooked up to an xbox to make MP viable.
Bring it on, love the Starcraft series.
@HonestHick i agree with you on the stance of Blizzard. I was a huge fan, even a bit zealous, of everything Starcraft and Warcraft. Such a shame Metzen, Michael Morhaime and Pearce left, and most of the top of Activision-Blizzard did those outrageous stuff to their employees. Made me quit Blizzard games all-together. Hopefully Spencer and his team is able to improve circumstances of the Blizzard team again and enough.
I've never played a Starcraft game (I'm not that into RTS) but going into a new genre sounds interesting. Let's hope something materializes from this...
Just yes.... please do.
Starcraft BroodWar is my most played game in history, hundreds of hours on MP 2v2 zero clutter infinite resources on user map settings.
Lots of great memories and team Zerg still reigns supreme. A good lurker front with hydra with dark swarm to cover. Memories.
Fix the remaster of Warcraft 3 for PC and bring it to XBox. And after that we will wait for Warcraft 4.
Yeah buddy!!!! Glad to see more of us are out there!
Amazing how Blizzard seems to be getting a revival under new ownership. Activision management must have really brought them down.
@Friendly Bobby ruined Blizzard. They took a company built on gameplay and great world design building to charge people for skins and don’t let them pause the game and unpause the game without charging them. It crushed the culture at Blizzard and we seen it. I am beyond excited to see if MS will say, hey Blizzard.. go be you again and shock the industry again. That can be near Nintendo like sales for certain IP’s. 10’s of millions. Even if most play them on PC. Some will buy a Xbox for them.
Starcraft Galaxy MMO: The lore is there. Plenty of character class options. Don't do two sides (Alliance vs Horde) like WOW. Go nuts and do three separate campaigns: Terrans (Marine, Firebat, Ghost, Medic), Protos (Zealot, Templar, Dragoon, Dark Templar), and Zerg (Zergling, Hydralisk, Defiler, Ultralisk). Doesn't need to be those, but you get the picture. They'd easily make their money back many times over like they did with WOW. They could add all kinds of "extra" to the lore not in the original RTS games to make new classes just like WOW did. The possibilities are endless. But don't do it on the WOW engine please, that gameplay is meh AF. It needs to be next gen with more realistic movement, combat and character controls. We've wanted this for decades now. Wow's times up. Bring in Starcraft Galaxy get it tf done, jeeze.
@JaffeGaffe good idea. There are a lot of rpg arcade games in starcraft that are great! Copying those and implementing them in a ‘destiny 2 style’ or something might be a big opportunity for Blizzard.
Why not make a FPS for starcraft i personally would love to go back through the beginning of the story from start to finish you could literally make a whole franchise from this also you could make multiplayer and make the controls alot like cod image a starcraft game with cod mechanics and also just an idea bring in bots to the battlefields make it alot like star wars battlefront 2 original game was im sure people would love a starcraft like this. I know i would if done properly
The multiplayer could be 3 factions against eachother building your own zealot or hydralisks or even space marines to fight against eachother even input a horde mode like gears has but starcraft against the endless tide of the zerg
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