User blog comment:Psionicblades/Players inputs on the 20th starcraft aniversary./@comment-58609-20180310075149

Um, is this asking for imput on the 20th Anniversary, or the franchise as a whole? Because those are two different aspects.

Anyway, I'll try and cover both bases:

-20th Anniversary stuff is...fine, I guess? It's a bit early to say, because I've got a feeling there's more coming. My guess is that around April 1st we'll get a new HotS StarCraft hero (if it isn't revealed by then), a new co-op commander and/or map, and possibly info on the next war chest and, by extension, Shadow Wars. TBH, I'm not that hyped about franchise anniversaries. I mean, it's good to acknowledge them, but I'd rather an IP look to the future more than dwell on the past.

-Shadow Wars in of itself is mixed for me. The first three issues gave me this kind of reaction, while after issue 6, I was having this kind of reaction. So, on one hand, Shadow Wars feels like an unnecessary continuation of a story that reached its natural conclusion in LotV, and in a worst case scenario, undermines the ending (so much for peace and the Dominion's golden age, though maybe by Shadow Wars that age has come and gone). On the other, on its own terms, Shadow Wars is quite decent. There's multiple franchises that I feel have gone past their natural ending point, and you could do way, WAY worse than Shadow Wars.

-Since you mention Earth, I think it's pretty much a given that the UED won't come back until SC3, which has a number of things going against it. It's possible that StarCraft would undergo a genre shift akin to Warcraft, if not necessarily an MMO, but the how's and why's of a StarCraft III could take a forum post all by themselves.

-So, anyway, to Blizz and SC, GGWP on reaching the 20th annviersary, and glhf for the next 20 years.