::cough bullsh*t cough::
Sorry something in my throat. Anyway - revisiting this post as I realize its lost in the sea of complaints here, but Blizzard has finally addressed this. Of course you all have that - but in case you don’t - here it is again: Warcraft III: Reforged Developer Update
So pros and cons here:
Pro:
- They addressed the issues (to be fair - they had no choice)
- They said stuff will be fixed, at some point, sometime, which was my point - to get an acknowledgment out.
- I’m confident WC3:R was probably not high on their patch radar with D4 development - but - due to the community backlash, it is now. So I think we’ll get some meaningful updates soon. Asking for a refund is, in my opinion, only ridiculous if you are waiting until all patches are out and getting it when its on sale, likely summer or Black Friday 2020. For me, I’m up to the Scourge campaign, and I have been enjoying this version thus far. Of course it can be better - but I have no reason to request a refund since I actually like it.
Con
- They failed to address some core complaints such as the demo Strathholme (spell check?) cinematic was done only as a promotion and not the actual cinematic (however to play devil’s advocate - the one we were given is a vast improvement over the original, but nowhere near as crisp as the demo)
- They didn’t say “we screwed up” and “we need to make this right”. Something I think all fans were looking for
Personally - I’m looking forward to future patches. I hope they add graphics bug fixes, restore missing features, and update cinematics to missions to get more snazzy. All easily able to do overtime. However - if they want to save themselves here, they need to overdeliver now. Add more features you didn’t even say you were adding. These could be (off the top of my head)
- A new hero per race (multiplayer only of course)
- 1-2 new units per race (single and/or multiplayer)
- 1-2 new soundtracks per race
- Achievements for single player. 3 per mission (Level completion, 2 feats)
- 1 new difficulty level - Brutal. Playing on Hard mode reminds me how easy the campaign is. I can single hand-idly defeat the entire right Undead base with Level 10 Arthas on Human9. Pretty silly. The AI needs to be better on this difficulty. I can literally see the AI scripts fire off slowly upon different conditions which I can exploit.
- While I hope they add this to begin with, I would like all cinematics to be remastered as the intro promo did. Maybe even add more?
I think if they did all that - lets say in 1 year, we may get a proper Reforged remaster which we can all reflect back how fans encouraged big companies to make adjustments for the better.
If they don’t…all I can say is…goodluck for Diablo 4. If they fail in that release, Blizzard is done for.