I still like it although I am a bit surprised by the events.
Nah the biggest game scam is fallout 76.
No, no no. Not surprised that an ignorant individual like yourself has no grasp of what this rule is, but let me break it down for you. Iâll put it in simple terms so you understand it better.
The 80/20/5 rule measures player engagement.
80% of a games playerbase will only engage with the game itself. They wonât care about fansites, they wonât care about game news, they start the game, they play the game, they stop the game. Thatâs it.
20% of a games playerbase will go to fansites, read news about the game, pay attention to interview and such.
5% will engage enough to post on forums and attempt to interact with the community and either help, or troll it.
That is the 80/20/5 rule and it is the rule that game developers use when they measure feedback and whether they should act on it.
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And Blizzard doesnt listen to their fanbase anyways, if they did they would never have stopped patching or hosting tournaments in the 2004-2007 era.
Its not my fault their CEO is so incompetent that he cant monetize a game with millions of followers.
They easily could have implemented features like steam or mobile legends which allows users to purchase skins or other things which dont impact gameplay yet still provide reliable cashflow.
Such a travesty to lose all those players over the years needlessly, simply by not caring about them, or realizing the potential profits to be made by nuturing their own community.
The current state of WC3 Reforged shows that they do.
It just so happens that, again, youâre in the minority and so they didnât value what you wanted as much as what the majority wanted.
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Anyways, agruing with an irrational fanboy who cares not about logic has tired me, time for you to argue with someone else.
Since your in the vocal minority Im sure theres lots of people for you to argue with.
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And the ignorant will continue to be ignorant. But hey, you just canât educate some people.
Again I completely understand if you are disappointed with the game and you can even to a point blame Blizzard for false advertising considering they had those same old trailers intact. To avoid much of the backlash they should have done for example development video where they would have told exactly what to expect, what was scrapped, what was new and so on.
I mean even as hardcore WC3 fan myself I have to say Im disappointed that Blizzard didnt put more money and time on this to really flesh out WC3: Reforged to be the kind of remaster it deserved to be. But you cant say that if you were actually following the developments of this game and listened to what Reforged team said during Blizzcon that you would have been scammed. Their communication should have been better, of that there is no question, but I alteast knew what was coming, I knew that this remaster was far from Blizzardâs âA-gameâ but from what Ive played so far Ive also been moderately happy (as far as singleplayer goes, multiplayer still has lot of issues that needs to be fixed and its damn shame that they would release that part of the game the way it is)
So ye overall I would not blame you if you are disappointed or say that 30 bucks is way too much for the game in its current state atleast. But for this to be a scam, it would have required Blizzard to keep utterly silent/outright lie about what was scrapped, but like said they did tell about those things at Blizzcon.
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Another video is from this thread: Launch Day Gameplay Video Showcasing Bugs and Errors
Yeah itâs just really bad. Immediately requested a refund after trying it out a few minutes.
This makes harder to revamp maps, and make those cutscenes. Itâs easier to make voice acting after cutscenes than otherwise.
The thing about the âblame the purists for not wanting changeâ excuse is⌠it doesnât even hold water. When you pick that argument apart itâs a non-argumentâŚ
That problem is solved with a single toggle option: Play Reforged Campaign Mode or Play Classic Campaign Mode? And indeed that toggle was PRESENT in the early Blizzcon 2018 build, suggesting that was always the plan in the beginning.
The engine is the same and the classic campaign was already MADE (itâs largely the campaign the game released with, other than a few small changes)⌠If they wanted to make a more grand and ambitious campaign for reforged, with a lot of changes, they still could have done that and just left the original campaign (maps/dialogue/cutscenes, etc) untouched as a second option.
If you honestly believe the lack of change was simply to please purists: Youâre a dope! Because it wasnât ever a âone or the otherâ situation.
The lack of change was because they set their goals and ambitions for this game too high for a small team to finish in a year, and development & budget fell well short of those goals.
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this 100%. Remember that for example with the cutscenes, if they had had to remake over 4 hours of those ingame cutscenes that would have meant MUCH longer development time or MUCH bigger team than what they had. Cause if you know anything about animation, this kind of thing is not exactly that easy or cheap to do, if you want to do good job atleast. So in my understanding Reforged team was only group of 10 to 15 people? and if only 1 of them would have been responsible on working on cutscenes, you should be able to count 1+1âŚ1 year to remake over 4 hours of cutscenes just by 1 or even 2 persons is something that is simply not possible, atleast if they wanted to achieve the kind of quality that the Culling/Stratholme demo of Blizzcon 2018 represented.
So ye they simply took too big of a bite that they couldnt chew, and completely underestimated the amount of work required.
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Wtf, 2018 looks like 2030⌠lol
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yikesâŚ
Weird projection. Kynmarcher, you ignore the evidence why exactly?
The fake campaign trailer is still on playwacraft3 dot com. This is unacceptable levels of bait n switch. You have been educated - you have no more excuse to continue to be ignorant.
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Iâm not ignoring anything. The only thing being ignored by folks is the fact that Blizzard clearly stated that they were dailing it back. They stated this, multiple times, but ignorant folks like the ones on these forums, didnât bother paying attention, and now theyâre whinging about things that they were told werenât happening.
Then again some folks genuinely got outraged about WoWâs cataclysm expansion when it didnât have Path of the Titans in it, despite the fact that Blizzard made it clear that the system wasnât working and would be replaced with the glyph system. So, this isnât exactly new behaviour.
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Yes, you are definitely ignoring that theyâre still using deliberately misleading cut content at a higher level of quality to advertise their game RIGHT NOW on playwarcraft3 dot com even after it is finished and available for sale. You are absolutely ignoring that. Maybe one day youâll look back on this and understand that you were/are.
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What I wanted for Reforged was the same great gameplay from WC3 for online multiplayer, a nice new coat of paint for the whole engine, and to see the creative team flex their talents at reinvigorating the campaign.
But it doesnât matter what I wanted, as I wasnât asked and no one listened to me.
You know the rule about forums right?
The majority are always the people who want to complain. Very few use them to say theyâre happy. The people who are happy just play the game.
Like statistically most people who go on a forum, are not going to be happy people.
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