The campaign scene in particular is harder to pin down, but I still think it's mostly the editor complexity and depth. I can guarantee that at least 75% of the people complaining don't play on the Arcade at all and there are some really quality maps on there. they need to try to make something or, more importantly, actually open the Arcade and play something. That makes the issues with the custom scene much more complex because everyone is looking to blame Blizzard when maybe they should blame themselves. I couldn't imagine using the SC2 Editor at that age. I was using the SC1 Editor when I was 12. It's so powerful such that the barrier to entry is now much higher than SC1 and WC3 and less people are willing to try making things. We can sort of blame Blizzard for not pushing the Arcade harder and trying more UI updates for it, but they provided us with a VERY powerful tool to make maps. I find the major problem has to do with the UI of the Arcade and the complexity of the map editor. I couldn't disagree with this more - most SC1 custom content was free and not monetized. After the whole DotA fiasco, Blizzard now retains ownership of anything people make as part of their ToS and some would say this pushed mapmakers away. I want to preempt any argument someone wants to make about money. How in the hell WC3 and SCBW are still more popular of sc2? How Blizzard is so dumbass with sc2 ? Why David Kim isn't fired yet and substituted by Lalush (the one of depth of micro).

I am afraid that this guy is right about competitive scene, and i am afraid also about the modding scene too.

How is possible that even modding / campaign scene is so much larger on warcraft 3 ? Why sc2mapster is dead but HiveWorkshop is more alive then ever ? Can't we all migrate to Hive ? Just to try to lure someone to sc2 on their community and grow a bit.

Plus that guy with the zerg decal as portrait (i don't remember the name sorry).

And what we have here ? EvindL, Dudki and Narudek our heroes!!!. Tomoraider is still kicking with a new project, Malfurion's quest is even now on development (first two chapter was mediocre), by watching Doronsmovies i saw that OutsiderXE itself updated his 'Day of the Dragon' campaign (nice models dude) and so much more. The new projects for WarCraft 3 are tons, like every day a new project is published, even the Campaign scene is more alive of our own (i mean by 'our' that i am part of sc2 community, not that i actually do maps or campaigns), the total amount of campaigns is superior, of course on 13 years it makes sense, but still the new campaigns on the work are still more of sc2 ones. So i just watched HiveWorkshop and i was once again disappointed by StarCraft 2.

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