There seems to be more information popping up about Stormgate now including the devs adding a third faction and it seems to be getting more polished.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0XdTRLYspc
May end up poking at this game because at least there's 1v1 so that means you can have solo matches and it will probably be a game that's harder to bot. Hopefully because it's ex-devs being involved that are good at RTS games we won't see potential multiplayer shenanigans but going to wait and see with this one.
If the devs don't fuck it up they could easily poach the Starcraft playerbase I think.
Yeah, same. And it seems to be getting worse. I like your (and other's) theory that modern AAA devs are so compromised at this point they would be downright incapable of designing a game that isn't just copy/paste. The industry is running on fumes, as all the competent people have long since been replaced. Sadly the average consumer doesn't care so, for now, it's still trucking along mostly fine. But you can only keep this going so long, when the devs aren't capable of, well, developing.