| gtotheunit91 said: I suddenly don't want Mike Ybarra as president of Blizzard
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"WHAT ABOUT STARCRAFT?!" *Ybarra ignores him* pain........Yeah, the poor treatment of Starcraft at Blizzard is kind of sad. Starcraft 2 and it's expansions have sold something like 8m+ lifetime, which is down compared to the 10m+ on StarCraft 1 and it's expansions, but still well above what non StarCraft RTS games sell. To put into context just how popular StarCraft is relative to other RTS games, StarCraft 1 and 2 and their expansions had sold 17.6m as of 2015, 2 years later in 2017 the StarCraft franchise passed $1b in revenue, from just 2 games and their expansions; compare to 2 other popular RTS series, Age of Empires and Total War, AoE sold 25m between like 5 games and their expansions and re-releases as of 2020 (AoE 1, AoE 2, AoE 3, AoM, AoE: M), while Total War had sold 36m between 14 games as of 2021; so on a per game basis StarCraft is well ahead of AoE and Total War in terms of sales. Doesn't really make sense for Blizzard to continue ignoring it like they have been.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 07 November 2023
