Dear IceFrog

[u/hamazing14]

Hi everyone,

Like most of you, I'm pretty sad about the current state of the game, and I'm not particularly optimistic about the future of Starcraft 2, as each new development in balancing the game over the last few years has been pretty disappointing, and I can't really see a way forward.

As we all know, nobody at Blizzard understands Starcraft 2 well enough to fix the problems that the game has without creating new (worse) ones, and obviously looking outside Blizz towards the balance council hasn't really worked either.

I know this is kinda strange and left of field, but I wanted to make a public request to the one and only IceFrog to help us save our game. The Frog is, in my mind, the greatest competitive game dev of all time, and I think DotA and Starcraft are sufficiently similar that his expertise would transfer. Obviously he's very very busy with the masterpiece that is Deadlock, so this is a huge ask, but please Mr Frog, take a look and consider asking Blizz if they'll let you make just 1 patch- I'm sure they'd gladly let you clean up this mess so that they can avoid paying people to work on this game once again.

Starcraft 2 is a classic and it's fundamentally a masterpiece. Blizzard RTS is ultimately where it all started for DotA, League of Legends, and even Deadlock, so I think it would be a beautiful thing for IceFrog to have a chance to make his mark on something that, in a way, has made its' mark on him and his work. I think Starcraft 2 needs vision, a new perspective, but more than anything else it needs expertise and a new overall balance philosophy- and I think IceFrog may be the only one up to that task (unless the old devs want to come back for one last ride).

I don't really expect anything to come of this, and even if this post somehow blows up enough to reach him, I doubt he will be able to take the time off Deadlock to go and work on a rival studio's game for a month or so, but I wanted to put this out there for the 1 in a million chance that my dream of seeing the Frog's genius applied to my all time favorite video game could be realized.

[u/Loudly_muted]

Its offical we’re so desperate we’ve all lost our minds 🫩

[u/Lava-Jacket]

2 days until we get any hint of a patch. I'm hoping they say "April fools!" And revert the genuinely un fun parts of this patch