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So, I agree with you that blizzard has only ever at best managed to keep from retconning for at most a single game, typically even the expansion will blatantly contradict something in the base game.SC has never had strong writing. The lead writer, Chris Metzen, has no experience writing outside of his work on the craft franchises, and most of that is just other writers expanding his pitches into actual stories. It shows, because everything he writes feels like it wouldn't be out of place on wattpad or a kid's first attempt at making a D&D campaign. I wrote a non-exhaustive list of plot holes, editing errors, bad decisions, etc in another post. According to World of Warcraft Diary, he constantly forgot what he wrote in his huge notebooks and had to make things up on the fly. Which explains so much. The one novel he apparently wrote was Of Blood and Honor, which is very weak and is easily his best work.the story is meh on its own and plain bad put in relation to starcraft before and after
But it's usually not quite as blatant as sc2 WoL, which completely undoes Jimmies character progression for sc1 and then the next campaign in sc2 basically entirely unmakes most of what happened in WoL. These are not background details of the world, or minor characters being swapped around a bit, this is front and center plot, and character development of main characters.