What communication, if any, has there been with SC writers over the years?

[RussianSpy27]

Hi friends,

I've been absent from the site for 5 years and been therefore behind. My understanding is that all efforts by fans at various forums, such as by the fabled Andrew on battle.net years ago, were useles. HOtS and LotV both sucked, as is well known.

I did a search of some old battle net posts were people have tried to generate discussion about the story, but it seems like the biggest threads on topic no longer exist, including all "Andrew" ones. Even this relatively recent (2015) thread seems to have been shut down https://us.battle.net/forums/en/sc2/...page=3#post-54 (see attached screenshot).

Obviously, Blizzard is no Bioware, and the writers don't seem to care. However, over the years, or maybe in recent times, has anyone (Gradius?) seen any type of discussion that the writers would have with fan sites such as this one, where criticism would be exchanged, at least in some form? Isn't there anyone at Blizzard who is passionate about this great franchise with literally a whole universe in space from which tv series and movies can be made?

But anyway, has there been, or at least is there any hope to get Blizzard to hear and acknowledge our concerns? Not for nothing but they will definitely try to produce more DLC missions and perhaps more SC games and everyone can benefit from at least some
sort of dialogue.

~RS

[Nissa]

There isn't any forum that I know of. However, I did get to meet SC2 writer Brian Kindregan at a gaming convention, so if you can find a con he's going to, he'll talk to you about it.

Well, he works at Epic Games now, but maybe there's other writers you could run into.

[Turalyon]

Someone really needs to track down James Phinney and get his thoughts on Sc2.

[TheEconomist]

Most definitely. Getting previous writers opinion on recent Blizzard games always starts some lulzy shit going. Someone ends up being fired.

[RussianSpy27]

Most definitely. Getting previous writers opinion on recent Blizzard games always starts some lulzy shit going. Someone ends up being fired.

By fired, do you mean this Brian Kendrigan dude who messed up WoL's and HotS stories under Metzen's oversight?

[TheEconomist]

I mean, the whole shake up in the Diablo 3 team after a small feud with old Blizzard North employees. Notably, Jay Wilson, Lead Director.

[KaiserStratosTygo]

"By fired, do you mean this Brian Kendrigan dude who messed up WoL's and HotS stories under Metzen's oversight?"

That would be a dream come true

[TheEconomist]

Almost everyone's already left anyways. No reason to keep a vendetta.

[RussianSpy27]

Almost everyone's already left anyways. No reason to keep a vendetta.

Right...SC was an excellent game and I guess we, people in our late 20s-30s, have such a powerful nostalgia for SC, which we experienced in our early youth, that by not delivering in SC2, they didn't just mess up an interesting sci fi series but personally attacked our teenage years.

Let's hope that there will one day be a JJ Abrams to our SC3.

[Nissa]

Um, JJ Abrams is terrible. He made 2 generic attempts at Star Trek movies, and produced a Star Wars movie widely proclaimed to be a retread of the first movie.

Not really a great metaphor, there.