I’m confused on honestly why Blizzard decided to scrap a lot of models that were in Beta and now not in Reforged.
Like a lot of the Succubus models now look too much alike and there’s no more unmounted Tyrande I believe from looking in the editor. I may be wrong lol.
Yes, the very fact that three of their creeps are now recolored and resized variants literally defeats the purpose of each unit having their own model and icon; it’s quite inconsistent, it’s like a patterned tile street but one tile with color off
I don’t get the point 
Like they had the work done and everything, why remove it???
By the same reason as two years before were decent shaders and trees
I hate to be that guy… but maybe they removed them so they could sell them separately in a cash shop down the road?
If you hate to be that guy, then don’t be that guy.
Chances are the models weren’t used because there was no actual application for them in the game or Blizzard themselves said “Nah, we aren’t happy with that.” because they ultimately have the final say.
I’d get the “no applicable place to use a model” for tyrande, but it’s always applicable since there is a community that could easily use said models in their maps, but I guess Blizzard only cares about the campaign and versus. I don’t get how they disagreed with the idea of having variations of a unit like the succubus? As they were so forward in making variations of other units… Are we scared of women with whips now even though they use them in WoW? But now we just have a bunch of blue demon ladies who use the same weapons and look almost the same. I just don’t get it. Why make a unmounted thrall who only shows up unmounted for a little bit in the campaign for NO reason and remove the unmounted variation of Tyrande. They already wasted resources in creating them for the beta so… Idk, I don’t get it. They should always keep units even if they don’t plan to use them.
A lot of models and other items get created in game dev and then never used. It’s a common thing. The idea is there and the thing gets created, but then whatever idea that was supporting ‘the thing’ gets scrapped and so the thing is never used.
My guess is that the unmounted Tyrande and the succubus models would have made an appearance IF Blizzard had continued to go down the route of replacing the entire campaign and bringing it up to date with WoW lore, but they ultimately decided not to do that, so many of the models that were going to be used simply weren’t.
I get that but a lot of games don’t have a system in which you can use their assets to create their own games. Removing assets even if you aren’t going to use them is not a smart idea as it’s assets that other people can use, they aren’t in the editor, i’m not complaining about why it wasn’t used in the campaign. Idk where retconning lore has to do with Tyrande getting off her damn tiger and a different colored succubus with a different weapon
Then I’ll be that guy.
The days of Blizzard saying “Nah we’re not happy with the quality of this product” are long gone. It’s more believable at this point that they’d strip their game to sell it back for an extra nickel.
Yeah nah, not even close.
They haven’t done that with any of their games (removed models just to sell them back later) including Starcraft Remastered. I highly doubt they’d start going down that route now.
Apparently some of this is by error and will be fixed in a future update. Basically the models did not get included in the release build/branch.
Simple, the game is 30 flaming gigabytes… 15x bigger than it used to be. Personally I hope they release free packs / updates with more HD Models. If not, refonnnnd.
What about removing models from the original game?
It’s only one model that I know of, but as of right now they’ve still yet to have reforged the Fel Space Orc, it’s still a marine in the editor.
That model may not be an important model in the game’s campaign or versus, but in terms of customs and custom models, that fel space orc spawned dozens of great models.(The space orcs on the Hive Workshop all use that as the base.)
Sucks to see them just decide to scrap the model.
Yeh I would like to know the reasoning behind that models explicit removal. They even cut it from the bonus credits.
Blizzard love to do that. Just like elite 8.1 aspirant pvp set in WoW. Blizzard made very nice set on Beta. Wowhead showed us that beauty. But that set never made it to the Life servers.
Why???
lemme guess, the usual “wrap it up” like they did against Farahlon and 8.3.5
Yeah I noticed they added the succubus’s back in this patch but they didn’t give them their whips, just the red coloring lol.
Might have run into ratings concerns. Concepts like succubus are generally not that compatible with 12 age ratting games. Especially in some regions.
I think it is an oversight that they don’t want to fix.