All right people, liven up, BlizzCon 2014's approaching and LotV's reveal is near!

[TheEconomist]

Damn I'm good. Mods! Change my title to the Oracle. I'm never wrong.

[ragnarok]

Damn I'm good. Mods! Change my title to the Oracle. I'm never wrong.

Such is your arrogance, Deckard. I'm curious how long before that backfires on you.

[NikoMyCousin]

SC3 won't be released until the 2020's. Not before Warcraft 4. There's too much of a high demand for Warcraft 4, and I don't think Blizzard cares about three dev teams working on Warcraft related games.

In the mean time, we'll have our Left 2 Die FPS adaption to look forward to.

[ragnarok]

SC3 won't be released until the 2020's. Not before Warcraft 4. There's too much of a high demand for Warcraft 4, and I don't think Blizzard cares about three dev teams working on Warcraft related games.

In the mean time, we'll have our Left 2 Die FPS adaption to look forward to.

What proof do you have there even WILL be an SC3?

[Nissa]

I will still probably be excited for WC4. Blizzardisms don't mess with WC in the way they do the others.

Maybe, just maybe, SC2 might be the proverbial pipe dream from a crystal that showed Zeratul a possible future, and then all will be set right in SC3.

I would make a joke about how my kids will really love SC3, but SC1 will be the only SC I introduce them to.

Damnit, I'm dampening the mood again ...

The more you say stuff, the more I like you. I agree with everything you said, particularly the mood dampening. To me, SC2 was "scream at the screen and throw things" bad, and I'm not looking forward to seeing how much they messed up my favorite race.

[NikoMyCousin]

What proof do you have there even WILL be an SC3?

Yeah, you're right. If this MOBA phase doesn't fade out, the RTS genre will. I'm pretty confident WC4 will still come out, which can be looked at as a farewell to the RTS genre by Blizzard if MOBA's do end up going out of control. I can definitely see a scenario play out where Starcraft becomes a Mass Effect flavored shooter, complete with daily quests!

[ragnarok]

Yeah, you're right. If this MOBA phase doesn't fade out, the RTS genre will. I'm pretty confident WC4 will still come out, which can be looked at as a farewell to the RTS genre by Blizzard if MOBA's do end up going out of control. I can definitely see a scenario play out where Starcraft becomes a Mass Effect flavored shooter, complete with daily quests!

I may not go into the SC genre if it's turn to RPG

[Gradius]

Mass effect and Starcraft would actually be pure win. Kind of like story mode done right.

[ragnarok]

Mass effect and Starcraft would actually be pure win. Kind of like story mode done right.

Tell that to bioware for ME4.

[TheEconomist]

I'm pretty sure that changing genres to something like Mass Effect would not only IMPROVE the story but is probably it's only hope. Not that an RTS can't do story telling right but it seams that Blizzard just can't do it anymore. An SP shooter means that they'll HAVE to focus on the story and give it the respect it deserves, on top of it simply being a better way to tell the story.

In fact, the more I think about it, the better it sounds. Blizzard can do their best to make the RTS SP engaging and fail miserably, but that's okay, because then we can just jump over to the StarCraft RPG/FPS and have a decent story telling medium. Of course, that still requires Blizzard to have a decent frame work for the story but that's less of a problem once the constraints of the RTS genre and the SC2 engine are removed, not to mention the freed up resources saved from having to worry about the MP.

Tell that to bioware for ME4.

Why? They know their shit enough that we don't need to tell them anything.