I (Robin Ek, TGG) just found out that the Shadow portal team (the makers of "Camelot: The Game") launched their F2P lewd visual novel-like "Starcraft" PC game called "SlutCraft: Heat of the Sperm" not so long ago. Well, since it's the early access version of "SlutCraft", here's what's known about the game so far.
Leading domestic game companies have entered into an unprecedented competition to win orders for Starcraft, Blizzard's representative IP (intellectual property).
Weird MS is letting go of a good IP. I don’t mind it but hopefully the best dev wins and I’m not sure who that is outbid those.
What they are bidding for are exclusive rights to develop the IP. Microsoft/blizzard is essentially licensing it out to the highest bidder, not selling the IP.
I wonder if we'll see Starcraft Ghost come out of this. And if we do, I wonder if it'll be a free-to-play gacha game.
Given the potential developers, looks inevitable there will be free to play gacha versions. But given south korea’s love for starcraft there would be one that is inline with starcraft 1&2.
Might want to expect some sort of backdoor cheat that only south koreans know of lol 🤣
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.
Illogical Games has just announced the official release of Star Discord, the one-man indie dev's charming StarCraft lookalike on mobile.
This has a very... Interesting title xD.
I think Blizzard will be taking this down.
@Asuka "Fine example of rule 34, this is... XD"
- Very much so ;) I'm just surprised that the game got dropped now. I mean, I thought that something like this would have been created much earlier? Then again, perhaps no one had the guts to actually do it?
@Sciurus_vulgaris "Then Blizzard can sue....."
- SEGA didn't do that with SOR Remake, and Nintendo didn't do that with AM2R (they just told them to take the game down). Furthermore, the game is free-to-play, and it doesn't use "Starcraft" in the title. So it's like ID or Bethesda would go after "MiniDoom". Then again, Blizzard did go after a handful of lewd "Overwatch" videos, but all of them used "Overwatch" in the title.
I just wanted to add that the Shadow portal team (the devs of "SlutCraft") just informed me that I'm going to get a chance to review the full game once it launches. So "hopefully" that means that I will get to play the full release a couple of days before the game launches for everyone. In other words, I could have a review ready on the launch day.