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StarCraft in particular draws a huge amount of its professional prize pool from Blizzard, not third party tournament organizers. 4/

If skins, cosmetic items, etc retain and generate investment from Blizzard, that's important to the ecosystem. 5/

It would also, presumably, provide more evidence that big new RTS games can still thrive and be profitable. 6/

Again, it's not a good idea for cosmetics to dramatically impact gameplay. No one benefits from making a game worse. 7/

Issues like the recent baneling / changeling issue should be addressed as bugs. 8/

But the question isn’t “what skins can we make that don't affect gameplay at all”? IMHO that's not realistic. 9/

In CS:GO, the most popular cosmetics are also the flashiest and most eye-opening. 10/

The question is, what's the right balance between appeal+potential impact vs. the dev investment+player engagement it generates? 11/