(Heck, there are even rumors that Overwatch will be going free-to-play in the next year or two). Considering the success of Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm, I think Blizzard is more than comfortable with releasing a free-to-play game right out of the gate. Originally, Starcraft 2 started out as a premium experience. Eventually, Starcraft 2 went free-to-play for some respects and that really opened up the floodgates for online play. It innovated in several areas, smoothed out the gameplay, and brought a blockbuster story for fans of the series to enjoy. Starcraft 2 was something that the franchise (and the genre) badly needed. It wouldn’t play as precisely as it does on PC, but then again, what games do? What does Blizzard have planned for Starcraft 3? It might also be possible for the game to come to mobile for the same reasons. We may very well see a Starcraft 3 Nintendo Switch version. It has, however, been more than 20 years since that debacle and the landscape has since changed with touchscreens and touchpads. Trying to play a real-time strategy game with thumbsticks can best be described as “a nightmare” (and I can say that firsthand). Starcraft 64 was an interesting experience to say the least. ![]() Mac is a niche operating system, but Blizzard seems like they’re keen to continue their commitment to releasing Mac versions in the future.Ĭonsoles, however, are another story. Starcraft 3 platformsīoth Starcraft and Starcraft 2 can run on PCs and Mac, but will we see anything beyond that for Starcraft 3? It’s doubtful that Blizzard would invest their resources into developing a Linux version, although there are things like Lutris which let people play it on Linux anyway. After all, Blizzard Entertainment somehow managed to keep Starcraft 2 a secret for a very long time. It may, however, be possible for us to get the game earlier if they’ve been secretly working on Starcraft 3. Considering Blizzard’s development cycles, that means that we could be getting it as late as the mid-2020s. In the worst case scenario, Warcraft 4 would come out before we got our hands on Starcraft 3. We did get Warcraft 3: Reforged announced, but we can’t say for certain if that “counts” as the Warcraft entry in this rotation. World of Warcraft has certainly taken a goodly chunk of their attention away from any kind of WarcraftRTS. There’s also the matter of Blizzard alternating between their real-time strategy titles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even now, though, the game is still being patched and getting new content added like special mission packs, co-op commander missions, and a truckload of balancing. Anxious gamers had to wait another three years for the Heart of the Swarm expansion and then another two years for Legacy of the Void to come out.Īll in all, gamers didn’t get a complete Starcraft 2 experience until nearly 17 years had elapsed since the release of the first Starcraft. We had to wait over a decade before we got Starcraft 2 in 2010, and even then it was only one-third of the game. It swept the world of esports, too, and is still played competitively more than 20 years later. The first Starcraft game released way back in 1998 to critical acclaim. We do know some things about the way Blizzard operates and we may be able to infer when we’ll get our games on the next entry in this blockbuster franchise. When is the Starcraft 3 release date? Well, that’s a complicated question-especially considering that the game hasn’t yet been announced. Blizzard has been great at running an extremely tight ship, and the odds are we won’t hear any news until Blizzard decides they’re ready to let us know. Plenty of people have theorized about what we might expect to see for the next Starcraft game, but there’s not much in the way of official sources for Starcraft 3 news.
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