Esports began branching out even more and, eventually, even Blizzard was championing games from other genres, most notably Overwatch.Īt times, it felt like StarCraft 2 was suddenly living on borrowed time. Fans know how that played out, though - suddenly, League of Legends was a thing. Born out of one of the progenitors of esports in StarCraft: Brood War, a title that took professional gaming to heights it had never been before, it felt like a sure thing that StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty would release in 2010, restart the entire process, and sit comfortably on the throne, ruling over a new generation of other competitive RTS games. For a game like StarCraft 2, 10 years started out feeling like an inevitability.
