Damn, you’re right, it’s almost been a decade already. I honestly thought it was younger than that.

Sure, it’s popular in one country, that doesn’t mske it mainstream. Fortnite or Minecraft are mainstream games. There’s no RTS that’s even close to the popularity of those games.

Starcraft hasn’t been mainstream for over a decade.

How do you think modern games are made? Procedural generation is used all over the place to create materials and entire landscapes.

Elden Ring had great art direction, but I wouldn’t say it had great graphics.

Editor? Do you mean publisher?

Blizzard stopped making good games way before that.

Performance is always about doing as much as possible with as little as possible. Making a game runs faster automatically makes it more efficient because the only way it can run faster is by doing less work. It’s just that whenever you can run faster it means the game has more room for other things.