Shadowrun deserves better

[Ruin Explorer]

Play it! It’s amazing! I’m on like my 6th playthrough atm

It is. I've finished it like 3 times. and have way more "most of the way" playthroughs than that, and it's the first RPG since the Mass Effect trilogy I think I can say that about.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

You should change your name to Ruination Explorer after you ruined any hope I had of a Shadowrun game. My wife saw me crying and asked who died. Explaing to her it was only my hopes and dreams was awkward.

Ruin Causer or Ruin Creator was right there man!

I mean, I wouldn't completely rule out SR because I'm like 80% convinced Microsoft are going to blow up their entire games department within the next three-to-five years. I could very easily see them selling off a bunch of stuff, including the SR IP.

I'm not trying to say "We'll never see an SR game again!", I don't think that's true. But we probably won't see any AAA first-person one even get started for a while, if ever. I do think if The Expanse and Exodus and "KotOR3" (can't remember actual name) all do well, we are going to see a re-examination of a lot of SF IPs and licences too, and that's a more likely point SR might be get dragged back into the light (esp. if 2077 2 or 2080 or whatever it ends up being called is also looking good - it's unlikely to be out by then but still).

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Or, at most, make an RPG of their own IP. There would be a huge audience for a StarCraft RPG, for instance.

The trouble is the amount of assets you'd need for a StarCraft open-world-ish RPG is dangerously close to the amount you'd need for a StarCraft MMORPG. Sure it's like 50% but... even that is close enough to get wheels turning in the minds of executives, like, why are we going to make only say, $1-2bn ("only") on this game when we could make $500m to $1bn+++ every year? Sure an MMO may well end up with an unsupportable lack of players by the end of year 1, but by then it'll still probably have made a profit, so it's only reputational damage, and execs can just move on.