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  • The strongest pitch at BlizzCon was WoW Forever, I think.

    It's finally cementing Classic as a format with its own set of disciplines, and I believe it'll draw a lot of players back from Turtle, Ascension, etc. which have seen interest in recent years.

    I'd love to see Blizzard work with the community projects [0][1][2] that underpin most private servers to release first-party (or "blessed by Blizzard" third-party) engine tooling (the way they used to with games like StarCraft and Warcraft) for WoW as a whole.

    Doing that would be a lot easier than continuing this cycle of having to revamp things every few years to keep pace with what their arch enemy (the private server community) is doing.

    Some players would argue that private servers are where the most interesting ideas for the WoW franchise are coming from, and that Blizzard haven't made experiences that are compelling enough to justify paying their subscription to play on official servers for a long time. WoW Forever is probably changing that for a lot of people, obviously, but for how long?

    Consider, also, solo creators [3] who want to work on passion projects (with no intent to hurt Blizzard's bottom line by running a public server and "stealing" their players with their own intellectual property.) Why should they have no support whatsoever from Blizzard to create new games/experiences within WoW?

    It's worth remembering that entirely new genres of games emerged from the communities of earlier Blizzard titles, like tower defences and MOBAs. And they turned out to be famously missed opportunities for Blizzard. Why haven't they learned this lesson yet?

    0: https://github.com/mangos

    1: https://github.com/TrinityCore

    2: https://github.com/azerothcore

    3: https://www.youtube.com/@Yafrovon

    by skibz
  • I like how they killed him instantly, its an old SC meme where the space marine pops out and is insta killed.

    But really, aren't there enough first person shooters? But a huge lack of RTS's. Lets have a new Star Craft Real Time Strategy game.

    Maybe if the First Person Shooter works out, they will spend the money on an RTS.

    by FrustratedMonky
  • Are we finally going to get StartCraft: Ghost ?
    by strbean
  • Impressive. They managed to turn the hype video in a more depressing parody of Starship Troopers.
    by brightball
  • All I could think about watching the trailer was that this must be a game based on Starship Troopers.
    by torh
  • "Set to launch 2030"

    Why even bother to announce this now? I only see downsides in mentioning something that far out.

    by eykanal
  • > a target release date of 2030

    Don't get me wrong, I'm excited for a StarCraft shooter despite it not being StarCraft at all (I enjoy the universe). I wanted StarCraft: Ghost back in the day, and this feels like a taste of that dream.

    That said, targeting a release of 2030 is wild to me. Look at the Astra game dev hype that's hitting twitter right now. Yes it's all filtered to the best possible examples / yes people are not one shotting these things, but still it's very clear that LLMs are beginning to be very capable at game dev in a way that doesn't look/feel like ass.

    LLMs are going to become more capable over time. I think most of us can agree that eventually they'll be competitive with AAA developers given enough GPU cycles. I would argue that given rate of improvement, we're looking at that point coming in the next year or two.

    To emphasize this point, a year ago GPT-5 got released. This was the type of game it would make: https://youtu.be/yTHo7tMborY?t=324

    This is the type of game Astra is making: https://youtu.be/GuO_Eo34C8E?t=348

    It's just starting to be capable of making assets in blender / unreal. Given this rate of advancement, what is the state going to be like 4 years from now? It really feels a bit like the "travelling to distant stars" problem, where at some point it's faster to wait for better engines than to leave now. I worry that by the time this gets released, the market is going to be flooded with fully custom AAA games that are hyperniche. 4 years out is a long, long time to wait, and it's a longer time to bet on success / market dynamics.

    by jjcm
  • Incredible to see how disconnected Blizzard is from its customers. One more shooter, when we wanted the next RTS.
    by jceg

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