The nostalgia purists ruining the potential for a redone story mode when the original would have been retained infuriates me ngl.
Blizzard stated in November they weren't updating the cutscene cameras, it's not a cut feature.
Blizzard is a pathetic husk of what it used to be. I feel bad for these loyalists still giving their money and trying to convince themselves that it's worth it. You are only enabling a garbage company to continue committing atrocities to a beloved franchise while they demand top dollar for it. They mistreat developers and support staff, they lie about their values while denouncing democracy in exchange for chinese money, and they consistently over-promise and under-deliver in order to see what they can get away with. If you continue supporting this company, you are a fool. Removed
No matter. blizzard will die as shadowlands bombs. i hope it gets 0.0 AND 0/10
The thing that I don't get is the timing of this.They announced everything that would be in Reforged almost 2 months ago at Blizzcon.How can there be such a discrepancy. I don't get it. When a game is 2 months from release, Blizzard know what will be in the game and what won't, when that close to release.The fact they were 2 months from release, and intentionally advertised features they knew would never make it into the game is really disrespectful to the player base.2 months from release just be a testing phase for bugs; the fact they were in that phase and knew none of the features were going to be in the game, but still advertised them at Blizzcon is pretty bad for Blizzard.
I'll rather blame the marketing committee. All those promises are made by them, not by devs. And like before (especially in WoD) their marketing team promised us too many things which seems hard to finish for devs in the given time. Oh, lets not forgot their pushing over a date policies as well. I believe if they took another 6 months, then we'd have almost everything they promised.
Blizzard is making more and more bad choices :-(
Man some of the missing features suck, but the biggest one for me personally is custom campaigns, there are some really interesting and fun custom campaigns. I was really looking forward to revisiting them in Reforged but right now though, unless you saved/backed up your old war3 install, you can't play them at all.I feel really bad for those authors who are active again -- I was semi-following one that seemed to be ready to fix any issues with their custom campaign after Reforged launch then on launch day to be like "Uh, they removed custom campaigns so..." which is just super lame. I was really hoping the blizz post would at least acknowledge it -- like let us know something like "custom campaigns were buggy in reforged so we've disabled them for now until we can fix it".
in the list youy forgot:- audio the promise to mantain the old voice (false they change all the voice in all non english language, like polish, italian, german etc- they promise to have the possibility to choise what use old or new voice (false you must take the new with also the censured joke)- they not give the possibility to set text and audio language differently like we can do with all other blizzard game- for the cutscene is true that they tell to scrap the stratholme type of cut-scene but they promise last blizzcon that they use new animation and improved the old with just use the same camera and dialogue and this is FALSE 90% of them is exactly the same, the only difference is character walk instead always run and some have little difference like the firs chapter where arthas knee for talk with the children.If you see the stratholme one they also cut some animation like the finger point of uther when tell arthas that he pass a terrible tresholdyou also can see the difference quality for human campaign and more advance campaign like they cut budget in middle of workstratholme is good quality and seem a city, instead capital city of lordaeron in tft campaign is simple an upgrade visual of the old one and not see like a city
There was no reason to have a 'new, updated campaign' or to retcon the story in any way. The removal of that feature from months back was a good thing, and at the time it appeared like a gracious decision on Blizzard's part to keep the story pristine. This should not be a mark against them, because with as awful as the BfA story is, we shouldn't be inviting them to muck around in places better off without their stink. What's shameful is that Blizzard has taken this feedback to preserve the narrative of the story and interpreted as a disinterest in the high-fidelity, cinematic overhall of the in-game cutscene sequences, the likes of which were demonstrated for the Culling of Stratholme mission. Even when Blizzard hears its player base, they are not listening.
So everything that was cut was stuff people cried about before release because it would "ruin the game", now the cut content is what "ruined the game", good job making sure game dev no longer listen to player. I suppose removing any credibility of user base review was not enough.
I was in the WC3 beta (ok boomer) and I haven't played the game since clearing TFT. I'm pleased I can revisit a classic game without having to jump through hoops and find my physical disks in the back of the closet. The updates are nice, people need to calm the hell down.
Would bet my house that the people saying Reforged is fine were both not alive during the original and never played the original and are not currently playing the reforged version. There are a lot of Warcraft 3 communities that have lasted and were looking forward to this and had a lot of hope. There is literally not a single person in these communities that are happy with this the current state of Reforged. Its pretty clear there are very obvious problems in the entire development studio at Blizzard right now, they can't do anything right. They need to fix their problems asap, their goodwill is beginning to run dry.