So for the upcoming anniversary event, the trading post is gonna get some new transmogs that pay tribute to Warcraft 3. They’ll have all four emblems for the major factions (Alliance, Horde, Scourge and Night Elves.) They look nice and under normal circumstances, it’d be a cute and quaint tribute to a beloved classic game!
Unfortunately, these aren’t normal circumstances. For the past four years the game has been broken. The inexcusably botched and painfully disappointing remaster, Reforged, took a wrecking ball to the game’s features and stability. Most of the lost features are back, but feel janky and clumsily grandfathered in.
Worse yet, many of the core problems with the game still persist. The system requires have been grossly bloated to the point lower-end machines that used to run the game are completely locked out now. The filesize is still 30gb compared to the original game’s four. The game’s menus are still buggy, horribly unoptimized, and essentially just really terrible Google Chrome code. While those issues are already awful enough, they pale in comparison to the lag, stability and optimization issues that make the game nigh-unplayable.
The fact that the classic Warcraft 3 experience is totally inaccessible via legitimate means, combined with the sorry state of the remaster, makes for an absolutely dismal state for the game even FOUR YEARS after the initial release.
With all that, what should be a good and heartwarming tribute becomes a sad reminder of how woefully neglected and abused Warcraft 3 is. I understand that all happened under the old guard of the company, and management has since changed hands then. Microsoft is in no way responsible for the despicable state of Reforged upon release.
However, they own the state it’s in now. And if the new leadership wants to “pay tribute” to Warcraft 3, they’re much better off listening to the fans and fixing the game, instead of making pretty new items in an entirely different one.
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Still waiting for the catch.
Wc3 reforged was pretty bad, but how is that related to these mogs and their use?
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I don’t get the point of this post?
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And I don’t get the point of yours
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Then I guess don’t post in the thread?
Well I asked you what the catch was, because there doesn’t seem to be one. Feel free to hate on reforged (bc it was indeed done terribly) but you said there was a catch to these mogs and never said what.
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I really don’t get your point, and I don’t think you don’t either. I stated very clearly and unmistakably the problem I had with the new transmogs and you came in feigning ignorance to try to sound smart. There’s really nothing of substance or value in any of your posts. They can be summed up as “well I don’t agree, therefore I’m right.”
It’s totally nonsensical and unproductive. If you really don’t care, just don’t post in the thread.
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The only real beef I had with Reforged was that they skimped on the remade cinematics. Other than that it was fine. Got to replay the story I loved with awesome new models. That’s what I signed up for.
How much had you play Warcraft 3 before, if you don’t mind me asking? I can understand most of the issues being totally irrelevant to a casual player, but to someone who plays on a super regular basis and makes custom maps, a lot of the mistakes of RF were a huge fumble. Blizzard admitted as much in their absolutely scathing internal report.
Well yeah, ok. I acknowledge that was a shamozzle. And them essentially claiming ownership of anyone’s custom maps, or whatever that addition to the ToS said, that was absolutely scummy. I played an absurd amount of multiplayer when I was a young’n, at the end of high school and into my 20s. But that was a long time ago. I haven’t done multiplayer or custom maps in about 15 years. When I say I got what I signed up for I really am only speaking for myself.
Your post can be summarized as " these new mogs are cool but the reforged wc3 still sucks and I don’t like that"
That’s not “a catch” as your post subject says, so I came here expecting to see some caveat about either their acquisition, terms to their use, or something otherwise related to these items. I’m not doing a “holier than thou” type of gacha. If you want to talk smack on the state of a different game that’s fine (mind you there’s an actual better forum for that).
So… If there isn’t some twist involving these items that wasn’t listed by blizzard then your post title is misleading.
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I still don’t get the point you’re trying to make at all. Your posts can basically be summed up as “well it isn’t a problem for me, therefore it isn’t a problem at all!” which is, on its face, absurd.
If you really don’t understand my point and aren’t just trolling, I’ll try to help you:
“The new transmogs would normally be a nice reference to Warcraft 3, but given the poor state of the game currently, they feel tone deaf and almost insulting.”
If you don’t agree, you can say so and move along. But there’s really no mystery here and nothing for you to continue to argue over.
Okay, so there is no catch.
Thanks, carry on complaining about the sin against gaming that is wc3 reforged.
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They weren’t going to let another DOTA slip through their fingers
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I don’t care “too” much about the EULA since it was the same one they had for Starcraft 2. The changes they made are mostly reasonable, even if they are undoubtedly a far worse deal for content creators.
If they had made even the slightest attempt to communicate it better, or even adjust it if people hated it so much, it would be a total non-issue. But it doesn’t seem like Activision or their legal department made any effort at all, and instead made a “let them eat cake” approach.
I don’t think Blizzard will ever be redeemed for destroying the original Warcraft 3 by forcing that stupid reforged patch on it at least they learned from it and didn’t destroy the original Diablo 2 with D2R.
They should reforge reforged back into the original game.
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The REAL CATCH, is these backpieces aren’t full on shields.
Make them 25-50% larger, and make them shields. We need these as shields, not as token frills that look goofy with any mog unless you’re RPing as a mannequin.
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General Discussion: We use words and phrases we don’t understand.
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It’s really kind of amazing that WC3 is so neglected since not only was it one of the most significant game releases of all time, but it also spawned tower defense, MOBA, and other game genres.
That’s probably why blizzard hates it so much, they could have dominated the MOBA and mobile markets so completely but they let all these things slip through their fingers from the WC3 custom games.