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Anon misses the RTS genre (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

StarCraft killed it by being too fucking good.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Pretty much. Blizzard supported the hell out of that game. Tweaked everything until it was perfect. At launch, it was as good as anything else at the time, but it wasn't knife-edge balanced like it became.

Modern Blizzard isn't capable of that anymore, and neither is anyone else. The genre can still innovate and provide perfectly good experiences otherwise, but it will always have this spectre of "not balanced like Starcraft" hanging over it.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I do not remember starcraft being perfectly balanced....

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Grandmaster:

Protoss: 57%
Terran: 57%
Zerg: 55.2%

Masters 1:

Protoss: 52.7%.
Terran: 52.5%
Zerg: 51.9%

Masters 2:

Protoss: 51.2
Terran: 51.1
Zerg: 50.9

IDK, looks pretty balanced to me

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Maybe because I only observe high level play.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago

Higher than Grandmaster and Master?