StarCraft: Remastered is a huge failure in Korea

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vivster said:

Oh look, it's OP again with another thread that is supposed to highlight how PC is such a terrible platform. I'm shocked.

Of course he falls yet again into the trap that he doesn't know shit about PC gaming or the market. The fact that SCR never had any chance would be obvious to people who know that RTS have been eclipsed by MOBAs and that people already have and enjoy SC2. But of course it wouldn't be obvious to someone who has no stake in PC gaming and just wants to randomly shit on the platform.

BTW also part of the article that OP did not want you to read

Perhaps the glass-half-full viewpoint is the right one to take. StarCraft: Remastered failed to bring Korean players ‘back’ to StarCraft, but they had never gone away to begin with. As previously mentioned, StarCraft was already alive and well. Esports was bringing in crowds in the thousands, while the game had commanded a respectable 3~4% share at PC bangs for years. To some extent, StarCraft didn’t need to be Remastered.

Maybe that’s just an idle concern. StarCraft has had an extraordinary run in Korea, where it was celebrated as a national pastime, an esport that rivalled traditional sports, and as the game that defied all conventional wisdom about longevity. At this point, it may be too much ask for anything more. After all, part of growing old is making peace with one’s mortality.

I gamed on PC almost the entire last generation unlike you. I am well aware that SC never was dead to begin with but Blizzards investment failed, they didnt need to remaster it in the first place, at least no in this fashion.

They could have given us a little bit more resolution size with the old graphics to fill 16:9 resolutions, give us ranked match making and most importantly improved the controls and  ignored what those elitist esport minority says. People didnt have any problems with broodwars graphics but the controls. And yes they ignore consoles again which another bad bussines decision. They can port it to Mac but not XBox One and PS4?