[Warcraft 3:Reforged] - Stuff hits the fan - Update Feb/04 - Blizz answer added

[Chazore]

starcraft said:

starcraft said:
I didn't follow the development very closely, so I can't speak to whether they overpromised.

I am playing through Reforged's campaign though and it is the same top notch game with better graphics and a few other minor improvements. Which is sort of what I felt I was promised?

My views on this have evolved.

I was close to the end of the Warcraft 3 campaign (so, had not started Frozen Throne), when it truly started to sink in just how little they had changed/improved. There is a map in the human campaign that is largely reversed because its layout is different in World of Warcraft (never played WoW, had just read about it). It was SO much fun. They didn't do anything too it except change the layout a bit and it was a massive improvement and new experience. It puts in contrast just how little value the remaster adds.

I hadn't even begun the multiplayer with all the issues people were reporting.

So, instead of playing on, I got a refund. When I did that, I immediately lost access to the game, to discover that my copy of Warcraft 3 classic had had its progress over-ridden - I need to replay the campaign. I did start that, and it took me a while to realise the graphics were old, so minimal are the improvements.

I think gamers need to take a share of blame as well. Reading more about the development now, at multiple points we demanded "make it new, give us more, but don't change anything." We stupidly protested the idea they wouldn't use the original voices, that they might change story elements, that balance might be addressed. I can't fully blame Blizzard for being too nervous to change anything. I can blame them for charging $45AUD for changing nothing.

Not once did I suggest that they keep the old voices or graphics.

What people wanted was for the original game to be left well alone, and for the new game to be the remaster. 

Those wanting the remaster to be some fucked up spawn of satan are well in the minority, and not the people anyone should at all be listening to.

At this point, a massive chunk of the blame goes to Blizzard here, not 50/50. Their new ToS also has zilch to do with fan demands either, and that ToS change alone makes it all criminal, because that's born out of subjective and petty hate for having lost out on Dota, which is entirely only on them, not us. A company acting so childishly petty because they didn't get the second best Moba is something no one should forget, not excuse and lump some blame on the fans. Any company acting in that matter is disgusting as shit.