There ' s a reason for that . The last nonBlizzard RTS to have sold at least 3 million copies came out 20 years ago . You need a game to be really popular to be a good esport , and most of these companies cant even keep their doors open . The West really hasn ' t really embraced RTS like it has shooters , in contrast with Asia . It ' s hard to grow your company to even go into esports if people aren ' t even interested in buying your game for the merits of its single playermultiplayer , if that makes sense . The vast majority of RTS games can ' t even keep their servers up 5 years down the line . So getting from point A to point B is an incredibly daunting task . The genre just isn ' t popular anymore , and I think it ' s doomed . It ' d be cool if Valve expanded into the space , but I ' m doubtful they will . They seem really busy with all their other projects , and they ' d probably create something more popularlucrative if they just worked on Halflife 3 or another shooter .