Everyone admits now that reforged was a big mistake. Instead of the talented old blizzard artists who wanted big paychecks it was just one suit in America outsourcing all the art to Asia, with the result that everything has higher polygons but looks broken and inconsistent because there was no actual talent behind the outsourcing, just sheep-like drone-like work. You get what you pay for. Reforged eventually makes everyone wants to vomit as they realise how bad it looks. Everyone has gone back to normal WC3. So my question is, why say “upgrade available” in green text? It is actually a downgrade and puts blizzard in shaky legal territory as well since it is technically false advertising. Even the voice acting in reforged is much worse.
Come on, man. Xenophobia much?
The company that did the art for Reforged reached out on Reddit after the game released asking for people’s opinions and apologizing about the upsetness. They said that Blizzard Entertainment never provided them with a working game client to test the art, so they had never seen it in-game. From what I know, the company has had successes doing work for other people in the past who gave a better sense of direction and such.
If you look at the Warcraft 3 Reforged models in isolation in a model viewer, as a piece of art they honestly look pretty great. Actually, it’s only when you force them into the Warcraft 3 game client with cheap hacks and hurried programming where you realize that the people drawing the art never saw it together at that scale and were not able to make the experience cohesive rather than just the individual art pieces.
Yeah they almost entirely didn’t change the voices, so it’s the same.
2 Likes
You are aware practically every big budget game does this? Modern games need hundreds or even thousands of artists so it is common for games to not only out source asset creation but to do so to multiple companies at the same time.
It is more likely any issues were that the sudden budget cut meant that their own art team could not revise/tune all models.
Many custom maps only support Reforged graphics. I suspect the number which do so will increase over time.
Because that is just how capitalism works? Trying to up sell products, or pressure you into buying something you do not need.
I recall that they did change the voices for some of the locales. People are not sure why but they did.
English was not changed much at all, with only some lines being removed likely due to recent political correctness trends.
1 Like
ahh yeah, good point. Sorry I was thinking only of the English version. I guess for other languages this guy might have a pretty serious gripe with it, with good reason. I have heard some horror stories about that. But it’s not something I have experience with
2 Likes
It’s not worse, it’s exactly the same, except for a few lines that may have been changed or disabled for Political Correctness / Cultrual Differences reasons. Which happens with basically every remaster ever.
Anyway. The “Upgrade Available” simply means “you don’t own reforged.” Yes, we know in most respects it’s not an upgrade, this has already been discussed to death. What’s important is that this really wasn’t developer failiures. Not on the dev team and not on the art studio. The blame for this whole thing can be placed squarely on Activision Blizzard corporate, who essentially defunded and de-staffed the game for no real reason.