"We have co-op missions, we have a new wave for new players to engage, before it was a lot of versus and it was difficult for a lot of players, but co-op brings in a nice unique way for players to come in and digest the content which is really cool. Now that we have our giant trilogy completed you get to play as one of the each races ," Reed explained. “The biggest reason for this decision was to bring in more players. Gadgets 360 spoke to StarCraft 2’s Lead User Interface Designer, Christoper Reed to find out why the free-to-play route was taken for StarCraft 2, and what we could expect next.
The real-time strategy game has seen a steady flow of updates after Blizzard wrapped up its final campaign - Legacy of the Void. Better support for the Custom Games community, similar to what's being added even today with custom campaign support could have helped build the ecosystem from the get-go.One of the biggest announcements of BlizzCon 2017 was that StarCraft 2 is going free-to-play. On top of that, he looks at Custom Games, which have had a rocky history in Blizzard's RTS compared to other games like Warcraft 3 or the first StarCraft. I really enjoy it, and it is probably my favorite way to play the game now."Ĭo-op, as Schutter tells it, gave him a "hard lesson" in checking his assumptions. "Honestly, I was opposed to adding Co-op Missions during Legacy of the Void because I felt like StarCraft 2 was a competitive game, and co-op just didn't feel right to me at the time," said Schutter. Epic campaigns and top-tier competitive multiplayer are "a must," but he leads off with another idea: focusing on a "robust co-op experience from the beginning." Speaking to USgamer, Blizzard Designer Ryan Schutter spoke to what he would want to see in a new StarCraft game.
Yet after 10 years, it's hard not to think about what a new StarCraft might look like, and where it could build upon what the three-part StarCraft 2 built up. Is there something you think we should be reporting on? Email been a decade, and still StarCraft 2 is carrying on with updates and plenty of competition.
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