On October 15, Blizzard published a blog post informing “StarCraft II” players that the company would no longer be producing new content for the 10-year-old RTS title. “The worst part about the post was the post itself,” said Joseph “Future” Stanish, a top American “StarCraft II” player representing Alpha X. In South Korea, StarCraft remains the de facto national pastime; elsewhere, prominent esports organizations such as Team Liquid and ENCE continue to field “StarCraft II” squads. So far, the studio has hired eight full-time employees, seven of whom came directly from the “StarCraft II” team. “Technically, all of us had worked on ‘StarCraft II,’” Morten said.

Source: Washington Post October 20, 2020 16:19 UTC