Blizzard Wants Starcraft II To Be 'Mom Friendly'

[Mr. Hrm]

“It’s definitely a very challenging tight rope walk,” he said of trying to make the game for both e-sports players and a broader audience. “We’ve trying to make sure that it’s perfectly balanced for e-sport, but look — I’m going to try to get my mom to play this game. I mean, I know she can’t [micromanage] at the level that these pro gamers can, so we’re actually experimenting back in the opposite direction… so that even the layman can come in and get a grasp of these cool things in the game.”


Sigaty explained that “StarCraft II” is in its alpha stage and is being tested by two former pro gamers on staff as well as pros at the conventions. However, his mom hasn’t gotten to try the game yet. But he said, without going into specifics, that they’re trying different things for more casual players.


“[Real-time strategy games] at this level — there’s a lot more there to think about and it gets really frantic really fast, and so it’s definitely off-putting to somebody that’s totally new to video games,” he said. “But we want to make it much easier for people to explore whether it would interest them.”


He added, “And yes, I want to try to get my mom and my wife to take a look and see if they like it. My wife has come to a lot of these events, and she loves watching [people play] but she says, ‘I could never do it.’ Well, I want to try and change her mind. I think that would be awesome if we could.”

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[Mgn]

Yea i'd imagine cuasual players get rofl stomp a lot. THis would make it easier for casuals to play but it looks like blizzard is trying to make it noob friendly.

we will have to wait

[ionscorp]

Even if the game becomes "Mom Friendly" to control, most people just wont be interested in an RTS game based in the future killing aliens if they don't play games that often.

[Mr. Hrm]

I think Starcraft II will be pretty popular. But, yeah, I doubt it will be aimed at casual gamers.

[ampagoose]

i cant wait