• PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        WoW hasn’t been good since vanilla open-beta..

        Blizzard hasn’t made a good game since Warcraft 3 came out in 2002.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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          3 months ago

          Agreed. Once they realized how much money they could make by designing MMOs to be addictive, and handed the reins to MBAs, they went down the crapper.

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            3 months ago

            In truth I don’t think many came after Warcraft 3, but The Frozen Throne expansion would come the following year and WC3 would maintain a pretty impressive player base over the next 10 years.

            Sins of a Solar Empire released in 2008, but by that time the RTS genre had fizzled out and most entries would fit more into 4X or Grand Strategy.

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              3 months ago

              Starcraft 2 was 2010, with the final expansion in 2015.

              There’s several attempts to have a more traditional RTS coming soon/out. Stormgate and Beyond All Reason are the big two.