Blizzard President responds to LIRIK\u2019s request for new StarCraft game Blizzard EntertainmentBlizzard President Mike Ybarra is interested in doing more with the StarCraft IP and admits the series still has \u201cinsane potential\u201d after Twitch streamer LIRIK asked for more content. The StarCraft series hasn\u2019t seen in a new entry in years and has struggled to evolve beyond its RTS roots, following the unfortunate cancelation of StarCraft Ghosts and an unannounced FPS ages ago. However, it seems like Blizzard still wants to do more with their beloved space opera franchise as evidenced by a brief conversation Ybarra had with LIRIK. On Twitter, LIRIK and Shroud were discussing Diablo 4\u2019s leveling system when the Blizzard President replied with a GIF. Sensing this was his moment, the Twitch streamer took the opportunity to inquire about StarCraft. Blizzard boss agrees with LIRIK on \u201cblowing up\u201d the StarCraft IP Wasting no time, LIRIK encouraged the Blizzard President to \u201cblow up\u201d the StarCraft IP and expand it past its RTS origins. \u201cThe IP is dripping with ways to break out of RTS form,\u201d the streamer said. \u201cI love SC, but zoomers don\u2019t play RTS\u2019s anymore, and boomers\u2018 APM just lowers. But the StarCraft universe has insane potential and is still one of the best.\u201d It seems like Ybarra shared the same sentiment, commenting to the Twitch star that he understood what he was saying. \u201cI agree, it has insane potential and is still one of the best IPs out there,\u201d he replied. While this doesn\u2019t confirm anything about a new StarCraft game or if Blizzard would ever take the series in a new direction like a Netflix adaptation, it\u2019s interesting to see how the company views the potential of the franchise. It\u2019s not clear if the Microsoft merger is having an effect on possible future StarCraft content. It should also be noted that Phil Spencer has expressed interest in bringing the series to Xbox. Hopefully, this is a sign of things to come and fans of the series will have something new to sink their teeth into in due time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Blizzard President responds to LIRIK\u2019s request for new StarCraft game Blizzard EntertainmentBlizzard President Mike Ybarra is interested in doing more with the StarCraft IP and admits the series still has \u201cinsane potential\u201d after Twitch streamer LIRIK asked for more content. The StarCraft series hasn\u2019t seen in a new entry in years and has struggled to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}