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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

RTS died when zoomers were like 5, nerd

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

True. There's a picture of me at five years old playing dawn of war

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Wow, I didn't manage to kill a whole genre when I was 5. Some ants maybe, but not a genre.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

StarCraft killed it by being too fucking good.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Maybe because I only observe high level play.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Higher than Grandmaster and Master?