Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.

Joining me today, we have the Game King himself, Sean Elysium Sands.

Thank you. Thank you. Greetings and salutations.

So today, we're going to be celebrating five years of StarCraft and talking about our experience

with the Legacy of the Void expansion, which is in beta right now, and talking a little bit about how StarCraft and

the pro scene around it have changed for the better and for the worse over the course of five years.

So, Sean, let's start, you know, with what's probably the biggest thing happening in the,

in the StarCraft world right now, which is Legacy of the Void.

And we've both had a chance to play around a little

bit with it. And we wrote our first impressions articles a little while ago. And I think we both

played a little more since then. But I think we had an interesting sort of divergence when we first

ever encountered this. I was really positive about a lot of the changes I saw coming down

in Legacy of the Void. And you seemed very skeptical because to you, it seemed like they were sort of

doubling down on the things that have created problems for Starcraft in terms of, in terms of

audience accessibility and appeal. Yeah, and I don't really think, feel like having played it further and gotten some more

time in. I feel like I'm pretty much in that same place. You know, the experience of, and again,

I think this is really focused on the multiplayer aspect, as opposed to the single player aspect,

because there's really nothing to comment on about that except the prologue at this point.

And, you know, we can get into that in a minute.

But from the multiplayer aspect, I would say even more so, even in the changes I've seen through the legacy of the void beta and getting to play it again more recently, I think that that sense of overwhelming work to do is one, a huge barrier for entry for new players.

And I don't think you're even hearing Blizzard talk about new players, really.

I mean, that doesn't even seem like it's really on their radar.

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