You're tasked with saving the RTS genre with unlimited budget. What do you do?
>>746229957make it free and pay people an exorbitant amount of money to play it 24/7
>>746229957I kill myself immediately
>>746229957Extensively embezzlement into swift retirement.
Company of Heroes Vietnam
they are billions but its co-op friendslop
>>746229957Supreme Commander 3 except it focuses on running really, really well and steals the UI advancements BAR and ZK made. Kickstarter for free money to do the things I already wanted to do.
>>746229957i just don't think younger people really like this genre or feel much of a pull towards it.
direct-brain interfacing to bypass apm nonsense.
>>746229957Make a good single-player focused game with a decent campaign. That's all we need. That's all we want.What are your favorite comfy RTS campaigns? For me it's Warcraft 3.
>>746229957Find the starcraft source cd and replace current blizzard.
>>746229957Whats stopping them bringing sc2 on steam like ow
>>746229957I make another Aoe2 DLC, either a roman/carthage dlc, or a spanish split with some aragonese/catalonian campaigning through byzantium, the american colonization (so we can finally use conquerors in campaign), and the reconquista.
>>746229957have an AI teach noobs how to play the game properly
>>746229957Hire someone else to do it and then do a ton of drugs with the infinite budget money
>>746229957Warcraft 4,5 and 6>>746231907Based>>746233995Sadly it does seem so, but then again RTS were never really THAT big, it's just the gaming market that has expanded immensely since their hayday. Even the most popular RTS at its peak player count would be kinda niche today.
>>746233995>errr its not enough to make profit you must make BIG FAT PROFITS FUCKING BILLIONS GIVE ME YOUR MONEYKill yourself.
make it a deckbuilding autobattler where you set up your army before the match and then just activate your advance wars commander powers while the game plays itself.>but that's not a rtsif you look at all of the complaints from casuals they all boil down to not actually wanting to play the game.
>>746229957buy EAdissolve EAprofit
>>746229957Remaster the Earth 2150 trilogy, keeping the gameplay perfectly intact.
Develop a hybrid rts FPSHumans vs ailens, robots, other humans, furries, and moreyou the comander send instructions and your troops go out and fight. Their hud is updated with your orders and they have crazy fog of war as you have full view of the field you controlTry to win against overwhelming odds with small teams, tech, upgrades, and potentially bronze players who cant aim wellChange your tech trees depending on your players needs and what your facing in the field29+1 players vs aiTheres a queue for being the comander unfortunately this tech is unfortunately being used to train people to micromanage wars. Theres more to the game than meets the eye
buff handcannoneers
>What do you do?A sequel to the only objectively good RTS that's not CoH.
>>746229957Buyout the remnants of all RTS companies that have since become shit and shut them down and move any still alive IPs to new teams that will keep maintain them. (Killing Blizzard for good and getting them out of the way)Make a complete perfectly remaster of every single classic RTS, with a planned marketing and release campaign to get RTS back into the hands of normies and younger gens. (At some point I bought out all the companies or bought rights to all the IPs I need). Marketing + sheer name recognition will bring way more players into contact with RTS again and it doesn't even need to be profitable, so it'll achieve it's goals regardless. A couple years after some of the big releases, start contracting out to AA teams with real work under their belt to make different RTS games, perhaps leaning towards ones that are more similar to whatever classic remasters are doing the best. Collab and whore out cool characters to Fortnite and Mobas and other big games. Collab and cross promote with all existing smaller but competent RTS (BAR, Zerospace, Tempest Rising, etc, as well as RTS games still going strong (AoEII, Starcraft 1+2, etc.)Make Command and Conquer Generals 2, ignoring all political screaming and protest. I've got unlimited money, might as well just brute force things. I'm not here to redefine or revolutionize RTS. If that happens along the way, cool.
>>746229957decanonize WoW, make Warcraft 4, it plays the same as Warcraft 3 but with modern pathfinding and hotkeys and just go ham with full campaigns for every faction (humans, elfs, orcs, undead, naga, everyone else can eat shit). There, everyone will buy the game because campaign is the focus on the game, then let the aspies figure out what to do after that by themselves with custom maps
>>746231907We really need to go back to 'Nam games.>>746229957RTS is very much alive. Even Sudden Strike is still developed.
>>746229957Extensive single player campaign, fire everyone who thinks that more than 20% of dev time should be spent on the multiplayer, including the janitor and people delivering stuff to the studio.
>>746229957Supreme Commander 2 but good
>>746237613>man with no skin in the game rages at others for thinking in practical terms
a sequel
>>746229957Starcraft 2 for real this time and retcon all the retarded shit Blizzard did with the story
>>746240286Despite how shitty wow how gotten, your probably going to make alot of people mad by decanonizeing WoW. It's not a good look to say the last 22 years didn't happen. Imagine if Marvel tried to fix the MCU so they made everything after endgame not canon. Wouldn't help a bit.
>>746245324Marvel does it all the time in comicsSecret War, the biggest event in recent memories, was an attempt to reset the seting because it was getting way too messy with all of the multiverse bullshit
>>746229957https://youtu.be/q4nNfZwwhYg>tfw NoVac (FalloutNV) is my Citadel of Adun (Starcraft)https://youtu.be/LpotK-Gg4x4>S4League was my training simulation>17:30>the last knot is made>Carry on the light fire of Chimata Tenkyuu!!!>already nuked 5 times>still aliveShow me your motherships, faggots, gensyko awaits me!
>>746245468>>746245324You don't even need to "decanonize"Just say "he we are doing a what if scenario that jumps off from Warcraft III"RTS and other games do this all the time.
>>746229957I would say Warcraft 4 but I don't think money can save modern Blizzard
>>746229957range ban indiaignore korean apm slop eatersmake supreme commander 3ideally there would be facial recognition on startup that auto deletes the game if you are not white
>>746229957Any good free rbowser ones you an make a private lobby to pkayw ithf friends?
>>746247084What does India have to do with RTS? I get Koreans and stuff but Indian's dont even play RTS.
>>746229957Company of Heroes 1 remaster. Polish up the engine a bit, a few QoL things, optimize it, add a few thousand of the best custom maps into the base game. Roll in EiR, Eastern Front, Joint Ops and OMG Mods into it as well as base featured game modes. Game of the year hands down.
I strip all the complicated mechanics that would confuse the modern audience.I design a diverse roster of units, with a black girlboss in a wheelchair as the cover art character.I fill it with tons of cutscenes telling a shallow, easily digestible Marvel-esque story.After it launches to double-digit playercount on Steam, I fall upwards into the position of Actiblizz CEO.
