Quoted as 'China's leading online game operator', Netease is reported to be considering licensing agreements with foreign online game developers.
Of particular interest is this quote: "Caijing Magazine reported that the first foreign online game to be operated by Netease, which used to rely on independent R&D, will be Starcraft Online, developed by US-based Blizzard, quoting an industry insider as saying."
Even though fans have been clamoring for a StarCraft 3 for years now, it seems like Blizzard really has no reason to spend time making one.
They sort of ran the story as far as it could go.
Also, it seems like blizzard is more busy with mediocrity at this point in time.
The problem with Blizzard is they have franchises that don't need sequels. People are happy playing the games that they previously made. What they need is new games, none of this business of trying to transport the old audience into a new version of an old game which only ends up nickle and dime'ing users.
Jason Hall, currently an indie developer and former Blizzard employee, has been sharing some really interesting stories from his long career in the industry for a while now. Some of them are truly insightful, while others may seem depressing.
I’m a little shocked that StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty sold only around 6 million copies. The original StarCraft did over 11 million. Maybe Blizzard was too leisurely in releasing StarCraft 2? Starcraft 2 came out 12 years after it’s predecessor.
Im surprised too. Starcraft was still a huge name in 2010. It was kinda the only new RTS around and other genres like MOBAs hadn't really kicked off yet. I do remember at the time sentiment around the game was
pretty angry the game was being split into 3 but I doubt that would have impacted sales to that degree
For a long time I believed StarCraft II sold on par or better than its predecessor. There was so much hype for the game. Plus it had a pretty strong E-Sports scene for a few years.
Myself and half a dozen friends all bought StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and played it religiously for a full year. While I bought the expansions, most of my friends did not. RPGs seem to be a generally low selling genre.
I'm not shocked at all. This was an early example of Blizzard being greedy. Instead of releasing a complete experience, splitting Starcraft 2 in 3 parts so it could make us purchase it 3 times if we wanted to know the whole story and play story mode with the other races.
I originally had that stance. However, Wings of Liberty, was just as long, if not longer than StarCraft 1. The expansions were of decent length too and added a good amount of additional content.
and people wonder why we are having mtx in everything. i blame the people who actual buy them.
It's interesting he used Brazil as an example of the importance of regional pricing. Nowadays many companies on Steam are setting their prices in Brazil as high as, if not more than, their price in USA. I simply refused to buy a few games when I noticed that's the case.
Illogical Games has just announced the official release of Star Discord, the one-man indie dev's charming StarCraft lookalike on mobile.
after reading the other posts in there, i'm about 99.9999% sure they are just referring to starcraft 2. either it's what they're calling the online server system, or if that's what they call it over there because they are so into playing strategy games online.
Hopefully their next MMO is the first MMORTS with Starcraft. The oppurtunity is right there for them to take control of another genre.
If its true, i guess you can forget the whole "PC gaming is dead" thing...
I had an idea where blizzard created an MMOeverything, heres how it goes:
Terran race get a first person view because they get all the guns, classes like ghost, marine, firebat, medic, etc. The first person race
Protoss get the standard 3rd person view because they have melee and spellcasters very akin to current MMO's.
Zerg get a RTS view, with a small number of units that they spawn and choose, with the player acting as their queen. Obviously the individual units are def weaker than a single protoss or terran player, but they strategize with their multiple units to overcome enemies. The camera is locked in the middle of all the units and follows them, so the player has a relativley wide view point, and they can send their units to alternate paths around the bad guys and so on, but they can't explore the whole map, if you know what I'm sayin.
With this, all playstyles can face off against each other in a game that appeals to everyone from Halo, WoW, and Starcraft fanboys. I mean, zerg need to be able to zerg things, so they need multiple weaker units, otherwise it just wouldn't be starcraft.
It could be the ultimate game ever, AMIRITE?
Surfer girl basically said it was going to be a diablo mmo.
"What is this new Blizzard MMO?
Demons, the Blizz don't do new IP."
http://kotaku.com/gaming/ru...
if either one is true expect a subscription from me, plus pre order.