I don’t point this as the community managers and backbone guys who had no say or authority in this, you guys are already in a tight situation as it is. This is for the developers and their superiors who didn’t do anything to stop this dumpster fire of a disaster.
This is bad, you’ve made yourselves looks just like Bethesda during their massive Fallout 76 scandal. Yes, I say scandal because so much of it was illegal that it wasn’t even funny anymore, it was just depressing.
Congratulations, you’re now on par with another one of the worst game companies known to all forms of media. At least you had your 5 minutes of fame before everyone abandoned your bait and switch cash grabs.
To the poor over-worked innocent souls at Blizzard who had no part in this calamity and have to absorb the brunt of this, I hope you find better employment soon, we care about you guys.
People are comparing this game to a total catastrophe like Fallout 76? Talk about hyperbole.
The game is functional and has the fun, well-designed gameplay of Warcraft 3, which is far more than Fallout: 76 could say. Also, this game only costed $30 on release, while F76’s original price was much higher.
Describe functional, my campaign runs me to the failure screen, can’t create custom games, low fps drops, no ladder in a competitive RTS and no LAN. My guy, I was able to atleast walk around and play fallout 76 when it came out.
Well, I experienced none of those issues. I’ve gone through the first five campaigns with no issues whatsoever, created a custom game with no issues… and why do you consider the game to be “not functional” without LAN? There are thousands of perfectly functional games out there with no LAN.
LAN is just a must, lots of people use it for tournaments and get togethers with friends. Also, good on you that you didn’t have any issues, my friend who bought the game didn’t either, but for the rest of us, the entire game doesn’t work.
Or, I could, make sure to read carefully, create a game that is none internet reliant that is LAG FREE, and play my game using technology that existed in the 90’s. Astounding I know.
For those of us who didn’t buy reforged, we still had Lan, solo player custom games, custom campaigns, and just overall better optimization taken away from us, as well as various bugs and custom games being broken by this sloppy implementation.
This release has literally somehow managed to make a 20 year old game WORSE instead of better.
It’s the false marketing that really pisses me off. The ‘actual’ gameplay they advertised with on their site and blizzcon2018 seems like a overhaul. These are just some new models and creative restrictions.