The issue is effectively that Blizzard released Starcraft 2 during a time where RTS was seen as a forgotten genre entirely, the best you had was the Company of

The issue is effectively that Blizzard released Starcraft 2 during a time where RTS was seen as a forgotten genre entirely, the best you had was the Company of Heroes & Dawn of War. If they had released it 5 years earlier it might have allowed the genre to stick to the huge cultural legacy it had, at least in Korea. Let alone the fact that the story of Starcraft 2 was... white-washed entirely compared to the OG & Brood Wars.