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The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] tal@lemmy.today 10 points 6 months ago

Based on this histogram, they're still coming out at a decent clip in absolute terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_real-time_strategy_video_games

That has the peak year being 2001, with 41 releases.

But still 14 releases in 2023.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

And some of those are games that I have played or purchased but not played -- I can say that there are some decidedly good recent releases.

Like, Carrier Command 2 is on there and is pretty nifty. It doesn't play much like Starcraft, but it's hard to argue that it's not a real-time strategy game.

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 2 points 6 months ago

Can you recommend any that have good single player campaigns? I've no interest in competitive multiplayer

[-] Rednax@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

The CEO from the article is also making an RTS. He is not claiming they are unprofitable. He is saying they are not mainstream enough to sell tens of millions of copies.

[-] Weslee@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Starcraft 2: Am I a joke to you?

[-] Rednax@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Starcraft 2 is almost 14 years old.

[-] Weslee@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

And it still has atleast 20k concurrent players at any given time

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