I saw their trailer and honestly? It's not even necessarily about the gameplay anymore the way they set these trailers up annoys the fuck out of me. Who thought it was a good idea to make it so that trailers all follow the same theme of flashy jump cuts then shitty pop music all over everything? They keep doing it in genres that it simply doesn't belong.
Remember Game of Thrones? Remember when that had an awesome sound track and you could actually be hyped for what comes next? Now it's some crappy 'epic' pop music or whatever the fuck genre the normies listen to tons now BOOM BOOM BOOMing in the background and they've barely got the sound balance edited right because it's so obnoxious. It also seems like the music all sounds the same to me as well like they probably bought a library of the shit and are just throwing whatever at it instead of finding something that fits.
I know I'm almost nitpicking but when even their marketing material looks like shit these details really start getting jarring for me because it's so obnoxious.
Blizzard has devastated every ip they have currently. Wow went such gutter trash they had to literally reintroduce wow classic. StarCraft is MIA. Overwatch 2 managed to get even worse somehow after the original year 1 release was an amazing change up to shooters then got pozzed. So now they’re stuck with a pay to win card game and whales who sink into every one of they pay 2 win bs. They are literally a mobile gaming company anymore…
I really fucking hope they leave Starcraft alone, Starcraft 2 even though I didn't like it as much as Stacraft 1 did have a proper satisfying ending to the story and even to this day people are playing it pro-league and regularly having matches with each other.
Imagine if they introduce Stacraft 3 and what kind of horrific game it would be. I honestly don't believe many devs at big studios even know how to code an RTS properly. They would probably try and make it into some kind of shitty moba trash or dumb down the mechanics severely. I have noticed that there are certain genres out there that are just dead and I do believe that's down to a lack of dev skills rather than people being unable to sell it.
Starcraft 2 is actually in a good place. I was so disappointed by Wings of Liberty that I fell off for like a decade... but the story works well enough and the single player alone has enough replayability it keeps me engaged.
Throw in a bunch of fun pros in the scene and you have an enjoyable ecosystem. It has also helped that Korea and Koreans are more accessible than ever before (so their pros don't seem as mysterious anymore).
It remains to be seen if the recent balance change is good long term, but the game is in a really healthy state right now.
Honestly the change to starting with 12 workers instead of 6 in LotV was the worst Blizz has done to that game in a long time. That and letting pros have most of the input on balance patches. There will never be any new meta shaking ideas, or 4-spawn maps again.
Really enjoyed playing WoL and HotS before I burnt myself out. Just got back into playing ranked in LotV after a 6 year break because Valve has killed DotA and I need a competitive game