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.

Blizzard pitched Warcraft 4 and a Call of Duty RTS, but both ideas were rejected. Explore why these RTS dreams were shot down by executives

Blizzard RTS fans haven't been having it great, since, as a studio, it doesn't seem to have much of an interest in strategy anymore, despite—as our own Fraser Brown put it while lamenting Spencer's t-shirt tease at the Tokyo Game Show,

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