What happened to my beloved RTS genre?

Sees like nobody wants to bother with it anymore, which kinda sucks. Building bases, managing units and so forth is so much fun for me (for some reason lol) and a lot of the RTS games I own and have played through have really cool campaigns. I enjoy RTT or action RTS games as well, World in Conflict is one of my favorite ones out there it's extremely fun and has a really awesome single player campaign as well as multiplayer.

Anyways, yeah what do yall think? Seems like most developers aren't even going to bother making them anymore.

Still plenty of (possibly) good RTS coming out soon:

Age of Wonders III

Planetary Annihilation

Age of Mythology HD Edition

Starcraft II - Legacy of the Void

Homeworld Remastered Collection + Shipbreakers

it's definitely short in supply on consoles and, imo, an ugly taint on the industry.

Isn't Age of Wonders 3 a TBS?

The RTS gender somehow turned into the MOBA gender. I like RTS too and I do miss it.

I was going to point out Planetary Annihilation as well. I was a huge fan of Total Annihilation back in the day and I thought the interface on that game blew away any other RTS out at the time. Also, along the lines of Homeworld there are plenty of 4X space exploration games out at the moment. That's a while other bucket of RTS titles.

Also, "defense" games can fall into this category. While tower defense is its own genre aimed more at the casual crowd, base or town building RTS games are popping up on Steam like crazy. If you like stuff like Evil Genius when War for the Overworld is a kickstarter clone of the old Dungeon Keeper games.

-Byshop

Starcraft 2 is all you need.

EA owning the Command & Conquer brand is what seems to have happened. Instead of trying to make a great experience, like they did all the way up through CnC3 and RA3, now they just want to get in on that lucrative MOBA F2P model that LoL and DotA2 are using.

As is the norm for EA, they seem to be dead set on a flawed way of thinking. They seem to think that you can copy success by following the leader. CoD makes a ton of money, lets to that with Battlefield. LoL comes along, let's shoehorn that into our existing RTS brands even though it could alienate those who supported it for years. Rather than do something interesting and fill a niche, they want to follow the leader and pick up the scraps while wrecking everything that made their brands good in the first place.

But I digress. This thread isn't about EA bashing.

StarCraft 2 is a lone beacon in the night, keeping the classic tried and true RTS formula out there. And the folks who used to make up Westwood studios just announced that game Grey Goo, which hopefully will be in the mold of classic RTS games rather than yet another LoL chasing MOBA. So there is some possible good stuff on the horizon.

But man, I just don't like MOBA games. It's like an RTS with all the things I enjoyed about RTS games surgically removed. No bases, no real armies, no resource management or whatever. Just your hero character and a bunch of map monsters on a small wagon wheel. No offense to fans of the MOBAs of course. They have as much right to dig those games as I have to dislike them. But they are very unappealing to me personally. Even the DC Comics MOBA, which should in theory be a game I would adore since i'm such a nerd for comic book stuff, but even Infinite Crisis was just plain boring to me. Despite it's pretty graphics, interesting character models, fun powers to use; even with all of that it just ended up leaving me bored and eager to move on. So I did. I just fired up Command and Conquer 3 and played that instead.

Your rights its a Turn based strategy with rpg and empire building elements

Consoles happened .

Anyways , still pretty good amount of RTS are coming out soon . Only sad thing is that Massive Entertainment was bought by UBISOFT so we may not get WIC 2 :-(