Hey boyos. First time posting, but I felt like I had something to say.
First off, just so you know where I come from, I love Warcraft 3. I have played the campaign (Frozen Throne included) at least a dozen times, and the story never gets old. It was my gateway into fantasy when I was a wee lad, and it holds a special place in my heart alongside Tolkien, Star Wars, and other great stories.
I have tried getting into World of Warcraft a few times over the years, but it has never gripped me for more than a few days at a time. I like a few bits of WoW lore, but most is, in my opinion, very contrived.
When they announced Warcraft 3 Reforged, I was excited of course. I thought from the beginning that it was weird and standoff-ish for them to flat out say that if you wanted to play the old campaign, you could do so in the old game, and that this game would only have the new campaign.
That said, I have all the while been excited to see a new Warcraft story, or at least a new take on the old story. I don’t think it would ever have held a candle to the original story I know, but I have since announcement been completely open to playing it and seeing what they had to say.
I wanted to include this to tell you guys where I’m coming from with what I am here to say.
The fact that they have scrapped the new campaign is a little disappointing to me, but it’s not a deal-breaker.
Here comes the part you came here for:
They cancelled the new campaign with the excuse of wanting listening to the community who wanted to listen to the original voice work, but I don’t believe them.
They announced this game one year ago, held the hype for barely one month after the new year, with some exclusive interviews with I-don’t-remember-what-video-game-news-site, and we have had radio silence since.
I believe that they wanted to fracture peoples brains with the fact that they would finally remaster their old game, and when that didn’t happen, they sat down and said “what is the least amount of effort/money/time we can put into this?”
We have a video game industry today in which [for example] a game, unless it sells 8 million copies is considered a failure, and it does not matter if it sold 7.5 million, 5 million, 3 million, nor how many times over it earned what it cost to make, it’s still a failure. I believe the same thing happened with the hype for this game; blizzard expected more people to be all up into it, and now they’re just cutting their losses (if you can call it that while you’re still making a boatload).
I call into evidence this link, which states that “Most parts of the in-game cutscenes will stay the same”. The remaking of these have nothing to do with voice work, and I’m pretty damn sure that no one complained about them. But what is easier than Reforging them? Not doing it.
Furthermore, if they truly listened, they could have so easily catered to both groups by just including the original campaign in the new game, so people had a choice. But what would be easier than making a new campaign? Not doing that and claiming it’s what people wanted.
I say all this because all I see on these forums are W3-people calling WoW-people entitled for wanting an old gem to cater to them, while the WoW-people accuse the W3-crowd of ruining an experience they were looking forward to.
I would be interested to hear what you guys think of the possibility that Blizzard truly does not care about this game, and just wants it out and over with.
Again, I’m not as invested in the argument, or indeed whether or not the new campaign is there, as some people on this forum (although, as I have said, I do count it as a loss). I just wanted to share what I thought was an interesting point of view.
Also, let’s try to keep it civil, okay?
TL;DR
I call you a coward blizzard!
I call you a coward thrice over;
Once for scrapping the new campaign.
Twice for pretending it had anything to do with what people wanted, and not everything to do with the amount of work you were prepared to do.
And thrice for not giving us a release date for a game less than two months before supposed release, or just telling us if it’s delayed, because there is no way that you don’t know that at this point.
If you lock or delete this subject I will call you a coward a fourth time!
