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  • Re: Starcraft: Be Careful What You Wish For

    From JAB@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Mon Apr 14 07:50:23 2025
    On 13/04/2025 19:20, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    Personally, I'm not that disappointed. I was never the biggest fan of Starcraft, and I've tired of the RTS genre in general. If I never got
    to play "Starcraft III", I wouldn't lose much sleep about it. (Plus,
    you all know my opinion of sequels and remakes over new IPS anyway).
    But I think it's telling that after boasting about how the merger with Microsoft would unleash a new age for classic franchises like
    Starcraft, the first we hear of is mobile-slop. It's great to see
    these mega-mergers of giant corporations working out for the gamer,
    eh? Why bother with innovative and quality games when you've captured
    the market with your sheer size? Give the customers crap; where else
    are they going to go?

    I'm not disappointed from a personal point of view beyond it looks like
    another IP that is beloved by many is going to get trashed.

    Oh yes Dungeon Keeper on the mobile, I downloaded it and thought this is
    quite good until after less than twenty minutes I realised it's
    basically unplayable (well unless you can increase the average life span
    of people by x5 to make it bearable if you're a masochist) and
    uninstalled it. It was so bad that the advertising authority in the UK
    made them remove the claim that it was a free-to-play game as that was misleading.

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