He continued: "Ladder anxiety is something that's come from the community. "Thinking back to how I experienced these games, even going back before StarCraft, of just playing against the AI, or you and a buddy playing in this way, gets lost sometimes because there's so much of this eSports news and coverage around." "One of the biggest challenges with StarCraft 2 for us has been, we designed it to be viable as an eSport, but you can interpret that, if you see a lot of eSports headlines, as 'it is only an eSports game'," StarCraft production director Chris Sigaty told Eurogamer. It is this "ladder anxiety" that the gargantuan PC developer hopes Heart of the Swarm, the first expansion for StarCraft 2, will combat. For them playing and hopefully winning ranked matches is all that matters.īut, according to Blizzard, just as many fans of the real-time strategy game suffer from what it dubs "ladder anxiety" - that is, they want to play competitively against other players online but are intimidated by the prospect and so don't. For hundreds of thousands of people StarCraft 2 is an ultra hardcore competitive multiplayer game built for eSports and little else.
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