After years of fruitless talks with the Korean e-Sports Players Association, Blizzard has left talks and is now trying to find another partner.
Basically, Blizzard want a piece of the massive monetary cake that is the Korean e-Sports scene, at least in StarCraft II.
Even though fans have been clamoring for a StarCraft 3 for years now, it seems like Blizzard really has no reason to spend time making one.
They sort of ran the story as far as it could go.
Also, it seems like blizzard is more busy with mediocrity at this point in time.
The problem with Blizzard is they have franchises that don't need sequels. People are happy playing the games that they previously made. What they need is new games, none of this business of trying to transport the old audience into a new version of an old game which only ends up nickle and dime'ing users.
Jason Hall, currently an indie developer and former Blizzard employee, has been sharing some really interesting stories from his long career in the industry for a while now. Some of them are truly insightful, while others may seem depressing.
I’m a little shocked that StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty sold only around 6 million copies. The original StarCraft did over 11 million. Maybe Blizzard was too leisurely in releasing StarCraft 2? Starcraft 2 came out 12 years after it’s predecessor.
and people wonder why we are having mtx in everything. i blame the people who actual buy them.
It's interesting he used Brazil as an example of the importance of regional pricing. Nowadays many companies on Steam are setting their prices in Brazil as high as, if not more than, their price in USA. I simply refused to buy a few games when I noticed that's the case.
Illogical Games has just announced the official release of Star Discord, the one-man indie dev's charming StarCraft lookalike on mobile.
Wow, I wonder how much of this has to do with having Activision as a business partner now...
I wonder what the Korean players think of all this?
Ooh, that's going ot be nasty. Blizzard are taking on a whole culture...
Well, maybe they just feel some new partner that is willing to deal is better than an old partner who isn't. Since no progress was being made anyhow, what's the harm in looking somewhere else?
If you can make money --> make money
The only problem is that they already make so much money, so squeezing out more and more makes them look really greedy.