StarCraft III May Not Be a Real-Time Strategy Game, Hints Blizzard President

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A new StarCraft game is still on the table at Blizzard Entertainment, but it may not play anything like what fans of the sci-fi franchise have been accustomed to. Mike Ybarra, Blizzard President, has told Bloomberg (alternate link) in a new interview concerning his company's "more independent future under Xbox" that while the StarCraft franchise may very well return after having gone missing for years, the next game in the series, if it does see the light of day, could be in "a different genre altogether." According to Ybarra, this is because most of the Blizzard staff who had experience developing real-time strategy games have already left the company, having jumped ship during Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick's reign. Xbox head Phil Spencer, who showed up at BlizzCon 2023's Opening Ceremony last week, has indicated that he wants Blizzard to be more like the independent studio it once was.

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I recall, there was a fps called starcraft: ghost back in the day. That never came to light, but now might be an opportunity to bring something among those lines.
 
So it will be a StarCraft flavored some such I guess.
Though, perhaps RTS games are done and gone.
Elements of games past always show up in different ways, so it is whay it is.
 
Spin-offs can jump to different genres, but the main games in a series should stick to the main genre those series are in.

Stoly said:
I recall, there was a fps called starcraft: ghost back in the day. That never came to light, but now might be an opportunity to bring something among those lines.
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I think that was a 3rd-person stealth-based game.




Uvilla said:
Though, perhaps RTS games are done and gone.
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I sure hope not. But yeah, seems like we don't see them much these days.
 
Uvilla said:
So it will be a StarCraft flavored some such I guess.
Though, perhaps RTS games are done and gone.
Elements of games past always show up in different ways, so it is whay it is.
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SCII is still very popular, heck even SC1 has a stong following.

I myself still play both every now and then.
 
Stoly said:
SCII is still very popular, heck even SC1 has a stong following.

I myself still play both every now and then.
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I assume both are still greatly loved and played a f*ckton in South Korea?
 
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