Warcraft III: Reforged - now with lowest user metacritic score of all time

[Arbiter]

Has Blizzard at least fixed the classic client?

 

[OctavianRomulus]

Has Blizzard at least fixed the classic client?

There's nothing to fix if there is no classic client anymore.

 

[Arbiter]

Has Blizzard at least fixed the classic client?

There's nothing to fix if there is no classic client anymore.

No plans to restore it? Any leaks or official statements?

 

[Lacrymas]

I'm pretty sure Blizz are just going to sweep it under the rug and stop working on this. Good thing I still have my original client without the Reforged rot.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Good thing I still have my original client without the Reforged rot.

Haven't played in a very long time, but I do remember fondly LAN sessions with friends, playing custom maps.

Tower defense ones were quite popular back in the day, but do any of you remember Angel Arena? Loved that one.

 

[Lacrymas]

I'm pretty sure LAN parties are now quite a lot more difficult due to needing to have the same version of the game to play together. It's dead, Jim.

 

[Arbiter]

I'm pretty sure LAN parties are now quite a lot more difficult due to needing to have the same version of the game to play together. It's dead, Jim.

Do you remember the good times when Blizzard supported spawn copies of their games?

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I'm pretty sure LAN parties are now quite a lot more difficult due to needing to have the same version of the game to play together. It's dead, Jim.

As is our youth.

 

[catfood]

And our dreams.

 

[Arbiter]

I'm pretty sure Blizz are just going to sweep it under the rug and stop working on this. Good thing I still have my original client without the Reforged rot.

I need to visit BNet forums to see how Blizzdrones are taking it.

 

[Absinthe]

Do you remember the good times when Blizzard supported spawn copies of their games?

Yep. Incidentally, Westwood did that too, with NoX at least.

 

[Olinser]

I'm pretty sure Blizz are just going to sweep it under the rug and stop working on this. Good thing I still have my original client without the Reforged rot.

I need to visit BNet forums to see how Blizzdrones are taking it.

They were in full 'OMG TRUST BLIZZARD' mode until this latest patch.

I'm not even kidding. Literally the first line in the patch notes, "Naga units now have footprints in Reforged mode".

THIS IS WHAT THEY'RE SPENDING TIME ON.

At this point even the shills aren't shilling anymore.

Literally months after release, and the only thing about the features people actually want - namely ranked ladder, custom campaigns, and profiles, and the only line in the patch notes is, '
the team is prioritizing delivering features like Ranked Ladders, Profiles, Clans, and Custom Campaigns.'

They literally don't even have a projected release on features that were PRESENT IN THE ORIGINAL GAME that they removed.

But hey guys. At least they made a female Death Knight and Demon Hunter, without that they would REALLY be screwed right now, amirite?

 

[Olinser]

Do you remember the good times when Blizzard supported spawn copies of their games?

Yep. Incidentally, Westwood did that too, with NoX at least.

Haha, NoX was a great idea for a game that sadly suffered from very obvious time cut during development (Conjurer campaign obviously had significantly less work put in it than the Warrior or Wizard, and the last few levels they basically abandoned story all together), and total abandonment by the studio even before they sold out.

It's still possible to get the game, but only from places like GOG, which is vulnerable to EA realizing that they actually own the license and suddenly yanking it.

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

Been a while since I’ve touched anything Blizzard-related, but I’m pretty sure the naga don’t have feet, so that adds a whole nother layer of incompetence to the patch.

 

[Citizen]

Has Blizzard at least fixed the classic client?

There's nothing to fix if there is no classic client anymore.

No plans to restore it? Any leaks or official statements?

There's no support for classic client anymore LOL, all the classic users were forcefully updated to what is basically a reforged client but in a classic graphics mode, the only way to play classic WC3 now is to install a backuped older version and restrict it the internet access or pirate it

 

[Lacrymas]

If I had to guess, this entire debacle is a product of Blizzard as a whole going down the shitter in the last years. They are a multi-b/million dollar company, yet can't deliver basic RTS features months after release? It's pathetic and it shows they either don't care or can't mobilize well enough. Or both. It's made doubly worse by the other RTS remaster, AoE2 (and 1 to an extent), being very successful and not shit.

 

[luj1]

Remastered classic scenarios when?

 

[Absinthe]

If I had to guess, this entire debacle is a product of Blizzard as a whole going down the shitter in the last years. They are a multi-b/million dollar company, yet can't deliver basic RTS features months after release? It's pathetic and it shows they either don't care or can't mobilize well enough. Or both. It's made doubly worse by the other RTS remaster, AoE2 (and 1 to an extent), being very successful and not shit.

AoE 2 had two remasters and iirc the first remaster (HD edition) was also shit.

 

[Storyfag]

If I had to guess, this entire debacle is a product of Blizzard as a whole going down the shitter in the last years. They are a multi-b/million dollar company, yet can't deliver basic RTS features months after release? It's pathetic and it shows they either don't care or can't mobilize well enough. Or both. It's made doubly worse by the other RTS remaster, AoE2 (and 1 to an extent), being very successful and not shit.

Add to that the upcoming Tib Dawn and Red Alert remaster which is very promising. When EA is better at listening to fans than Blizz...

 

[ERYFKRAD]

"Naga units now have footprints in Reforged mode".

They don't even have feet, wtf.

 

[Lacrymas]

AoE 2 had two remasters and iirc the first remaster (HD edition) was also shit.

I haven't really heard anything like that and I'm pretty sure everyone played the HD edition before DE was released.

 

[Nahel]

AoE 2 had two remasters and iirc the first remaster (HD edition) was also shit.

Don't know it might have had flaws but it added content at least. And honestly it is hard to do worse than blizaard here. They removed content, destroyed the classic version and the only addition are female death knights...
Warcraft 3 was my favorite game and I was not even motivated to buy such a shitty remaster. And when I first heard the news I was so happy at the idea of doing all those custom game again.

 

[Lacrymas]

Mmm, let's be honest here, this remaster looked shit the moment they revealed what it's going to look like.

 

[BING XI LAO]

Both AoE2 remakes were fine and had new content which was entirely up to par. if they had major flaws, I think they were ones which concerned only people dedicated to multiplayer.

 

[baud]

Mmm, let's be honest here, this remaster looked shit the moment they revealed what it's going to look like.

Though, can you think of any remaster of a 3D game that went beyond widescreen fix/modern OS support and ended up good? Once you start remaking models, costs climb really high and I think Activision/Blizzard announced the project without thinking how much it would cost to do it right and then they said 'fuck it, let's release it and forget about that'