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For hundreds of thousands of people StarCraft 2 is an ultra hardcore competitive multiplayer game built for eSports and little else. For them playing and hopefully winning ranked matches is all that matters.But, 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. It is this "ladder anxiety" that the gargantuan PC developer hopes Heart of the Swarm, the first expansion for StarCraft 2, will combat.
"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. "That is not the case.
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