Schreier says that, regardless of the individual pitch, "there was no appetite among Blizzard's executive team for a new RTS game." He points to Warcraft 3: Reforged as a sort of last-ditch effort to prove to the execs that there was still some gas left in the ol' RTS tank, but we all know how that went.

Blizzard hasn't dipped its toes into the real-time strategy waters in a hot minute, but it's reportedly not for a lack of trying. Developers "desperate" for an RTS return have reportedly pitched everything from Warcraft 4 to a Call of Duty spin-off to no luck.

According to Jason Schreier, Tim Morten and his team were desperate to get a new RTS off the ground at Blizzard.

As it turns out, Schreier’s book goes into this topic, revealing that Blizzard had multiple shows in development for StarCraft, Overwatch, and Diablo. However, there was a bit of a falling out between the two companies when Blizzard sued Netflix for poaching their (at the time) CFO Spencer Neumann with a year left to go on his contract.