Blizzard is reportedly receiving a number of pitches for new StarCraft video games from well-known Korean studios. Here's what they allegedly have in mind.
Blizzard is reportedly receiving a number of pitches for new StarCraft video games from Korean studios.
In an article brought to the internet’s attention by X / Twitter account @KoreaXboxnews, Asia Today listed four Korean companies who are reportedly competing with each other to develop new games based on the StarCraft IP and secure publishing rights: NCSoft, Nexon, Netmarble, and Krafton. Apparently some of these companies have traveled to Blizzard’s headquarters in Irvine, California, to make their pitches.
NCSoft, which is behind the Lineage and Guild Wars MMOs, is said to have pitched a StarCraft RPG of some kind (an MMORPG?). Nexon, maker of The First Descendant, has pitched a “unique” use of the StarCraft IP. Netmarble (Solo Leveling: Arise, Game of Thrones: Kingsroad) is hoping to make a StarCraft mobile game. And Krafton, the company behind battle royale PUBG and The Sims competitor inZOI, wants to make a StarCraft game “based on its own development capabilities.”
I’m not very excited about this. Starcraft 2 was quite a bit worse than Starcraft: Brood War. And Microsoft is not known for putting out quality lately.
SC2: Wings of Liberty was very good but they definitely overdid it with expansions and couldn’t work themselves out of that hole.
I’m not sure what do you mean by Microsoft quality lately. Just recently Black Ops 6, Hellblade 2 were received very well and Indiana Jones is a GOTY territory. Avowed was mixed but some of target audience seemed to like it a lot.
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I’m not very excited about this. Starcraft 2 was quite a bit worse than Starcraft: Brood War. And Microsoft is not known for putting out quality lately.
SC2: Wings of Liberty was very good but they definitely overdid it with expansions and couldn’t work themselves out of that hole.
I’m not sure what do you mean by Microsoft quality lately. Just recently Black Ops 6, Hellblade 2 were received very well and Indiana Jones is a GOTY territory. Avowed was mixed but some of target audience seemed to like it a lot.