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.

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.