Pretty much :P
SC2 was huge for a pretty decent while, and it absolutely made them a shitton of money. It continues to be very popular in co-op which is what they mostly support.Feel like thats been known for a while. SC2 completely failed to make a splash beyond its initial launch and that genre is dead in esports.
They wont bring it back until they can figure out how to make money off it
I believe it was pretty big up until Dota 2 came huge. I may have gotten the timeline wrong but that is what it feels like to me.Sorry if I have no context for this, but I've always heard of Starcraft 2 as a hot competitive title. Does it not share or conquer the spotlight with Overwatch for eSports?
Reading the report I see it doesn't specifically target Starcraft as a series. Maybe down the line?
Since there is no real blizzard anymore... They were run as separate entities for awhile, but all the old guard left as Activision started pushing for more control.
It doesn't feel like Blizzard is interested in much these days, aside from making skins for OW.
MOBAs time now
SC2 was the competitive title when it released, but Activision's greed over licensing tournaments essentially killed it. Along with DOTA, they had the monopoly on e-sports, and they fucked it up badly. A mixture of complacency and incompetence.
yup the fantasy of a rts was large armies battling, we now can do that from ground leval, so no reasson to abstract out. the effect is players no longer were interested in rts.
I believe it was pretty big up until Dota 2 came huge. I may have gotten the timeline wrong but that is what it feels like to me.
I believe it was pretty big up until Dota 2 came huge. I may have gotten the timeline wrong but that is what it feels like to me.