This has to be one of the biggest flops in the history of gaming.
>>736551081>Make RTS>Make it for esports instead of ST>Copy the by far hardest and most autistic ones (SC And worse, WC)>Forget literally nobody plays RTS pvp >And the ones that do are entrenched into the 4 or 5 titles Kek
>>736551081Looked like shit. Way too cartoony. They also built it from the ground up to be an e-sports RTS and this never works.
I love how the "from people who worked on your favorite chidhood game" scam works 100% of the time.Is nostalgia THAT powerful?
>>736551320>Copy the by far hardest and most autistic ones (SC And worse, WC)You mean only SCII. Because this game has little to do with the 1st SC and WC.
>>736552124It has creeping and hero units like WC3.
>>736552169I don't remember if you can level up heroes in Stormgate and load them with artifacts like you can with WCIII.
>>736552124It tried to copy the whole heros things form WC3 at some point early in development, then sorta gave up iirc.It also did copy, or try to copy, SC2 "HIGH APM MAKE GAME BETTER GUDDER, PLEASE PRESS X FOR LARVA" gimmicks which not even SC2 players enjoy.
>>736552234>"HIGH APM MAKE GAME BETTER GUDDER, PLEASE PRESS X FOR LARVA"This is my only problem with SCII and hence why I rather play the campaigns (even if the story is utter shit after WoL, but mechanics-wise all the missions are FUN) or go custom games.
>>736552232The creeping is more important than the hero units anyways. Creeping forces a specific type of playstyle that is exclusively only enjoyed by people who play WC3.
>>736551743they didn't really scam the actual players since nobody bought the game.the investors that put millions into it being the next big thing were the actual victims.
It's not really a flop if nobody reasonably expected it to succeed or be good. Like, I once thought "maybe it might be worth playing for the campaign once" but when more information started coming out pre-release, that "might be" quickly vanished. I would say it had about-par performance.>>736551320While this is true in the sense that most players get into the MP scene "organically", by enjoying the campaign and wanting to play the game more, the problem here isn't really the design. If it had been actually good then I would assume it might have found a small dedicated following, perhaps even grown over the time within that niche. But it wasn't good. Why would anyone "entrenched into the 4 or 5 titles" want to switch over to an inferior game? They wouldn't! They play them because they're actually good (even if fundamentally niche) games.
>>736552483Finally, a victimless crime.>>736552324It makes SC2 a very hard high skill floor and ceiling game and daunting to play.But also not really fun.
>>736552553Yeah, thats the point.They designed a game for a niche of a niche without grasping what that niche wants.
>>736552483>the investors that put millions into itThat's my point, anon. By scam I mean the crowdfunding, not the sales of the finished product.
>>736552718Well, I like literally everyone else hasn't played the game so I can't provide exact details (for all I know it might be supremely deep, wonderful "meta" that does exactly what you want, encouraging neither deathballing or skirmish unit harass, but functions exactly how you would want it to, etc, etc), but from videos and screenshots it's clear that it looks like shit, feels like shit, and sounds like shit.It's not that the game was designed to be ugly or for units to feel completely sterile, inert, unresponsive and unimpactful (contrast that to e.g. Brood War in which even the lowly zergling attacking stuff feels and sounds impactful). They just couldn't pull off passable, never mind decent, never mind good, art. Fuck, I just realized from OPs pic related that the game had three races: they are so fucking bland and forgettable even that didn't stick to my mind. And I assure you the developers didn't consciously design the races to be so lame: the devs obviously tried to create cool shit but they were hacks who couldn't do anything better.
>>736552553Exactly I don't think the retards here understand what an actual flop means. Highguard wasn't a flop because the writing was on the wall. Everyone was saying the game was doing to be dog shit, it releases, and surprise surprise it's fucking dog shit. The same thing happened with Concord as well although, I will say there were much more people defending Concord than Highguard...pretty much everyone on the planet knew Highguard was DOA. There were actual retards trying to defend Concord even though anyone with a brain saw the writing on the wall. Money spent doesn't = flop.
>>736552483>they didn't really scam the actual players since nobody bought the game.I sure hope nobody bought a free game.
