@ZenfoldorVGI
I don't think he was being "elitist" when he was describing his SC2 experience. I have only played a little of the beta myself so I can't comment on it entirely. If he feels it has been dumb downed from SC1/BW then that is his opinion. He has even provided that he has climbed up to 2nd highest league for his backup. Perhaps Blizzard did dumb down SC2 for the masses. I know for fact that they semi screwed over the Zerg even though I was able to beat a few horrible people in the beta with them. Anyways, you don't care about RTS as your previous post indicated. So lets talk about WoW. A lot of vetern WoW players will agree that they dumbed down WoW for the masses. Who can blame them though, I suppose you want more people to pay to play the game. There is still skill involved but not too much as it once required (although in pvp if you don't know what the hell you are doing you can easily get your ass kicked unless you are facing a superior class compared to yours).
WoW has been so much a cash cow and has occupied Blizzard's time that they barely could even support their other two franchises/take forever to release (SC and Diablo). A company as great as Blizzard was (and I suppose still is) should be able to have more than three franchises. What happened to Blackthorne, Lost Vikings, Rock n Roll Racing besides them releasing GBA ports of SNES games? They have 3 franchises now (Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo). Sure they are great but they should be able to do something else for a change. I think Blizzard could make a bad ass turned based strategy game. Sure not too many people love that genre but if they could make something like Advance Wars (but better); I am sure it would sell.
