I dunno I’ve seen posts on WoW GD, on this GD, and on twitter of people calling them out to NOT change the story. People didn’t want change. And sometimes its not what everyone wants, but the vocal minority. It sucks, but what can you do. I’m still going to play regardless.
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It doesn’t matter if they don’t change the story, they could keep the new kinematics.
And the new elements 
it seems an excuse
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Wait… I’ve been reading around, and it looks like the only thing they scrapped was new voice acting. Areas like Stratholm and Silvermoon are still getting reworked. King Anasterian even has a model, as well as other elf heroes, so there will still be differences and added details. I have even noticed some, what I assume is, unused lines with some of the units which wasn’t there before, so perhaps the same treatment could be done with unused dialogue from the original campaign. Or, at best, new characters might get lines but just not have as interactive of a dialogue.
I understand people don’t like that they aren’t doing as much, but I think everyone’s assuming that they’re doing NOTHING, which doesn’t seem to be the case, at least from what I’ve been hearing from the interviews and media covering it.
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that’s the hope friend
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Pete Stilwell said they were hoping for a beta in spring. I’ve never seen anything past the one interview I’m referencing otherwise for beta dates.
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xhttps://youtu.be/nI10a1GR_jM?t=897
He said it here
Again, he said “hoping to have start at some point early next year”.
There wasn’t a promise made or official statement.
WTF? Why canceling new campaigns? It would be a totally profitable option to make these campaigns and sell them as a bonus pack like the Nova trilogy in SC2. If the so called purists don’t like it, then just don’t buy it.
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It’s humorous when people are screaming fire when the fire hasn’t eveb started yet.
Wonder how long until the fake outrage will blow over.
Yeah but still we’re here having the beta 2 month before the release, that’s definitely not in early year. Blizzard communication at it finest
Yeah, but that instantly invalidates a lot of that added content. Imagine having Anasterian be included for no reason because he has no dialogue and Arthas won’t acknowledge him.
Those voiceovers were really important and they were supposed to keep the original voices as an option.
There was still no concrete date given. Although it does look like I’m doing a “get down Mr. President!” for Blizzard here, I do think this is an awfully tight schedule they’re trying to run here.
Well they have 4 massive titles in the works.
Warcraft 3 reforged
Diablo 4
Overwatch 2
WoW shadowlands.
Pretty sure they’re doing what they can to get all games out and debugged.
Different dev teams too, mind you. I just don’t know why they’re taking the risk of keeping the current release date rather than the alternative, likely wiser, risk of delaying.
Quater sales for winter. Best time to sell games.
They’ve had this habit of not listening to their fans for years while they continue to coast by on the shoulders of the people who laid the foundation for their success. Even if they manage to come up with something great by fluke, they’ll just run it into the ground in short order like they did with Overwatch and SC2 by taking it in the wrong direction.
WoW and Warcraft 3 probably have VERY different demographics, save for the overlap of folks who’ve stuck with warcraft long before WoW was ever a thing. Those who have stuck WoW out tend to be fonder of the older versions of the game and think each expansion is more ridiculous than the last. That it died somewhere after Cataclysm was released.
The bulk of the complaints from the Warcraft 3 fans came down to the textures and shading and the lack of the “Warcraft Style” Blizz had developed through W3 and most of WoW. Most of that could be fixed by fiddling with the shaders, colors, and textures to make it look more vibrant like WoW, and the rest by a few model tweaks here and there to the occasional unit.
Because YOU specifically don’t like their direction doesn’t mean they don’t listen. Hell kind of entitled thinking is that?
I gave feedback at Blizzcon to leave the story and art style alone. So, they definitely got at least SOME of that feedback.
It was an overwhelming majority. See I can do it do.
Not really, there must’ve been a huge overlapped section. You know why WoW started to went downhills ever since Cataclysm? On the classic forum there are crowds of TBC and WotLK fans calling for TBC and WotLK legacy servers, but NOBODY wants a Cata server or any other later expansions. WoW in the days of those two expansions were at the peak of its popularity with highest records of subscription. Most people blamed the decline on the modern features for convenience and the totally shattered world of Azeroth, some linked it to the financial crisis around the time, but those are just part of the problem. I think that the real reason is the lore - or lack thereof. The storylines of TBC and WotLK are obviously gleaned from the BE and Undead campaigns in Frozen Throne. You got to visit all these historic sites and raid all these great heros you once controlled in the campaigns - Kael, Vashj, Illidan, Anub’rak, Arthas, etc. When it came down to Cata, there was nothing left, BLZ lost the direction. From there on the game had been driven by fan fiction, nothing more. W3 fans lost their touch with the post-Cata world, and the new BLZ dev team lost touch with them.
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