Warcraft III’s Story is Better Than WoW’s

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I say this as a diehard Warcraft III fan and someone who played WoW from vanilla - cata and even a bit of legion.

The reason why World of Warcraft even exists is because of how great Warcraft III’s story was.

I’m all for adding minor Easter eggs or slight nods to WoW, even in the future some separate new campaign expansions might be cool…

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All of those additions should come after Warcraft III is recreated with its original magic.

Already things like “Where did the zoo go?” Is hurting Reforged because those little details are part of what made Warcraft III so great.

I know a lot of people want to see some completely new stuff and that’s fine… For Warcraft 4.

For Warcraft III Reforged the game
should pay homage to the origins of the entire modern Blizzard Warcraft franchise.

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Agreed, keep the story the same, Warcraft 3’s story was a masterpiece, World Of Warcraft ruined it.

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Totaly agree, comrade.

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I concur, this is Warcraft 3, NOT WoW

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Honestly, rebuilding Stratholme to look less like “Generic Human City in the Cityscape Tileset” and more like it’s portrayed in WoW & Described in books is probably a good move.

I get that people don’t want to ruin WCIII lore, but Stratholme becoming a proper city doesn’t do that. It’s a human population center, set in a semi-medieval High Fantasy universe. A missing zoo isn’t going to change much.

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Also I’m 100% sure they add it. They just didn’t want players to reveal it to new players in the demo.

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I noticed the zoo, others noticed too.

If they missed a bunch of little details like that throughout the game because they want it to follow WoW more it would absolutely change a lot for the experience of the game.

This is the crux of what I’m talking about, a lot of this little stuff does matter.

Next you’ll probably try to tell me that forgetting the hidden pandaren in Northrend wont matter either :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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I agree with a lot of the things you say. However, during my days playing WoW (early days of WoW), I noticed a LOT of players not even familiar with Wacraft 3. I imagine it’s even worse nowadays.

My point is: as much as we die-hard fans of the classic RTS games love Warcraft pre-WoW, there are a huge market out there of people who know Warcraft in-depth through the eyes of the MMO and it’s only logical to bring WC3 and WoW closer together.

We’ll still be able to play the classic maps for sure.

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How does that make sense? Just because they played the MMO doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t also experience Warcraft 3 in its original state.

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Maybe they played WoW, not because it warcraft successor, but played it because they just play MMO game? I think they dont interested much in warcraft lore.

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What is stopping them from being interested in Warcraft lore?

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Because they just interesting numbers, how they char powerful is and all, they dont give a hell, what this world is this. Some fireguy, some cold undead. They just play for gameplay. Its like much of HS players. They dont even know universe, they just see number and dont understand what does it mean “stats dont mush character in lore”. What lore are u talking about in the end. They just outsiders playing another game and dont interestin what its all about.

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Well that’s one hell of a generalization. WoW is filled with lore and I tell you, people did (and do) care about it…

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I didnt generalize at all. I said everything of it only about people who actually plays in warcraft games not caring about lore. And why this category of people dont care about it. Not about ALL of WoW players, most of them actually warcraft fans.
What about people who start played in WoW and became warcraft fans, but dont like to play warcraft 3. Most of reasons are: graphic seems outdated to them(but hell it looks good even now) and they dont like RTS games.

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True many ppl care the lore in WoW, HOWEVER Ive also seen many such players not giving Warcraft 3: Reforged even a remote look of interest…many WoW lore fans (not all but many) dont seem to be that interested in exploring past events in RTS form and ultimately it all comes down to the matter that they are not even willing to try RTS games, they would rather just watch cutscenes. Or they already have and thus they are only interested in future events of WoW, not looking at the past.

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I was more immersed in Warcraft Lore up to the end of TFT. To be honest, Warcraft III had probably the weaker story. I never liked the idea of the Orcs being some hippy shamans versus the monstrous savages from Warcraft 2 and esp Warcraft 1.

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So if they don’t care about the story, why change the story for them? Keep the story for us then…

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Well tbh, the transformation of orcs was pretty well explained in books (Lord of the Clans especially that was released before or around same time as WC3) and game manual of Warcraft III.

Orcs had very little background story in first two games, WC3 and the book Lord of the Clans pretty much established that history and later the book “Rise of the Horde” expanded on it

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Plus Lord Of The Clans was originally supposed to be a game to tie it all in… but it never got released.

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ye it was supposed to work as bridge between Warcraft II and Warcraft III