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本帖最后由 xisailuo 于 2026-1-12 00:34 编辑
Blizzard has tried to make a StarCraft shooter twice. Cancelled both times. They're about to try again.
StarCraft launched in 1998. Twenty-eight years old. One of the most influential RTS franchises ever made. Built esports in Korea before esports had a name.
And they've never successfully taken it beyond strategy games.
StarCraft: Ghost was announced in 2002. Third-person stealth action starring Nova, a psychic operative. Development bounced between three studios over twelve years. Console generations changed underneath it. Blizzard finally confirmed it was dead in 2014.
Then came Ares. Started in 2017. "Battlefield in the StarCraft universe." Terran marines gunning down Zerg. Built on the Overwatch engine. Led by Dustin Browder, the guy who shipped StarCraft II.
Cancelled in 2019.
The reason? Activision was uncomfortable. Ares looked too much like Battlefield. Battlefield competed with Call of Duty. Call of Duty was Activision's bread and butter. So they killed a StarCraft game to avoid competing with a franchise they didn't even own yet.
Now there's a third attempt. Dan Hay is leading it. He ran Far Cry at Ubisoft for a decade. Far Cry 3, 4, 5. The guy knows action games at scale.
BlizzCon 2026 is in September. Blizzard's 35th anniversary. Multiple sources say StarCraft will headline. These tickets will be gone in minutes.
Third time's the charm?
Here's what's different now.
Microsoft owns it all. No more classic Activision politics. No more protecting Call of Duty from internal competition. They already ship Call of Duty. They can ship StarCraft too.
The IP has been dormant since 2017. Nine years. Meanwhile they've been seeding StarCraft content into Diablo and Hearthstone. Testing whether anyone still cares.
They do.
Ghost and Ares weren't cancelled because they were bad games. They were cancelled because of politics and priorities.
The politics should be gone. The priority is clear. Xbox needs W's.
And if this actually happens? If BlizzCon opens with a Blizzard cinematic and we see a Terran marine drop from orbit into a Zerg swarm?
Drop mic.
Blizzard cinematics have always been special. They don't just announce games.
They make you believe. Twenty-plus years of false starts. Two cancelled projects. An entire generation of fans who gave up waiting.
September could finally deliver. I'll definitely be at Blizzcon for this.
暴雪曾两次尝试制作星际争霸射击游戏。两次都被取消了。他们准备再试一次。
《星际争霸》于1998年推出。二十八岁。有史以来最具影响力的即时战略系列之一。在韩国电竞还没起名之前就已经建立了电竞。
而且他们从未成功地将它带到策略游戏之外。
《星际争霸：幽灵》于2002年宣布。第三人称潜行动作游戏，主角是心灵感应特工诺娃。开发过程在十二年间在三家制片厂之间辗转。主机世代在它基础上发生了变化。暴雪终于在2014年确认它已经死了。
然后是阿瑞斯。2017年开始。“星际争霸宇宙中的战地。”地球海军陆战队射杀虫族。基于守望先锋引擎构建。由达斯汀·布劳德领导，他是《星际争霸II》的发售者。
2019年取消。
原因是什么？动视感到不自在。阿瑞斯看起来太像《战地》了。《战地》与《使命召唤》竞争。《使命召唤》是动视的拿手好戏。所以他们为了避免与一个他们还没拥有的系列竞争，就砍掉了一款星际争霸游戏。
现在又是第三次尝试了。丹·海伊领导着这场运动。他在育碧经营了十年《孤岛惊魂》。孤岛惊魂3、4、5。这家伙对大规模动作游戏很有一套。
暴雪嘉年华2026将在九月举行。暴雪成立35周年。多方消息称星际争霸将是主打。这些票几分钟内就会卖光。
第三次成功？
现在不同之处在于。
Microsoft拥有一切。不再有经典的动视**。不再保护使命召唤免受内部竞争。他们已经出货了《使命召唤》。他们也可以运送星际争霸。
该知识产权自2017年以来一直处于休眠状态。九年。与此同时，他们一直在向暗黑破坏神和炉石传说中植入星际争霸内容。测试还有没有人在乎。
他们确实会。
《幽灵与战神》被取消并不是因为它们是糟糕的游戏。这些活动因**和优先事项被取消。
**应该消失。优先级很明确。Xbox需要胜利。
如果真的发生了呢？如果暴雪嘉年华以暴雪过场动画开场，我们看到一个地球陆战队从轨道上跳入虫群？
放下麦克风。
暴雪的过场动画一直都很特别。他们不仅仅是宣布比赛。
它们让你相信。二十多年的失败。两个被取消的项目。一整代放弃等待的粉丝。
九月终于可以兑现承诺。我肯定会去暴雪嘉年华参加这个活动。
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