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Blizzard Botched Warcraft III Remake After Internal Fights, Pressure Over Costs (Jason Schreier)
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iHaunter
Member
What's worse is, wasn't it pretty much entirely outsourced anyway?
AJUMP23
Gold Member
can I not go download and play WC3 if I own it?
Shut0wen
Member
Did EA actually do it though? Im not sure they own the franchise anymore because c&c aint on ea play
As I understood it no, you cannot download WC3 classic version. But I have not tried myself, someone else plaease confirm or deny.
Trogdor1123
Gold Member
They took the old one away? How is that legal?
Kuranghi
Member
I'd like to see a film where a sort of John Wick style character goes to all these horribly greedy publishing houses and just goes on a mental killing spree, maybe with PC parts instead of guns, slicing people up with those empty PCI lane covers:
"Oh so you thought MTX was a good addition to this beloved franchise!?!!" *slices jugular*
"Oh so you thought MTX was a good addition to this beloved franchise!?!!" *slices jugular*
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jigglet
Banned
Yup owned by EA.
AJUMP23
Gold Member
I would want to be able to put my disk in and play it.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Thats the problem with big game makers. They have this all or nothing attitude. Every company I worked in ya, everyone wants every product to be a top seller but realistically you might score some hits, have some products in the middle and have some stinkers.
BUT, products that sell less can be the most profitable lines and be the longest running. The top seller is never the biggest profit maker at any company I've worked at. You can make and sell mid tier or niche products and still rake in the net profits from loyal customers.
But I guess for games, there's a pure correlation for most sales = most profits.
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Hari Seldon
Member
I mean this is one of those Fuck Activision articles for ruining poor blizzard. But honestly after reading that lawsuit I highly suspect it is all Blizzard's fault. Their company culture was basically: "Wow is making it rain, lets fuck off drink and play video games and produce nothing." If I was activision I would be cutting their damn budget also.
eyesabitdull
Banned
I'd like to imagine the above image is how the entire company runs and interacts with one another.
And the below image is every single fan of the company back in the day expecting the company to do better.
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Saint Boot
Banned
Can this company die now?
TexMex
Member
All it does is bring everyone into the Reforged client, there’s no separation between the two. You can still play your classic game.
But with the origianl disc or .exe? I understood if you bought Reforged there was no way to go back and play classic.
D2 is pretty promising because it's being developed by Vicarious Visions.. the beta or whatever they had before looked good and was pretty well received.
Umbasaborne
Banned
I cant believe blizzard had the fucking gull to lie about this game. Fuck them and fuck activision. Nothing but lying thieves. Over promise and under fucking deliver but fuck you, we are blizzard.
So sick of companies downgrading and lying about how there games will look and play, Throw cd projekt red into that pit as well.
So sick of companies downgrading and lying about how there games will look and play, Throw cd projekt red into that pit as well.
Umbasaborne
Banned
I wish they would tbh, bobby kotick milked them dry into the shriveled useless waste of a company they are now
Kenpachii
Member
U can't. Its completely gone. Maybe there is some private server or something running maintained by fans.
I registered a few months ago the original cd key in the blizzard client and it says its registered and then states reforge that i have to buy to play it.
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Hari Seldon
Member
The timing of this article is very suspect. Blizzard is being sued for all kinds of fucked up shit but hey lets drop a "Fuck Activision, Poor Blizzard" article.State of California sues Blizzard for actual terrible things they did to employees.
Jason Schreier:
TexMex
Member
As someone who bought Reforged I'm not sure, wouldn't have a reason to at this point. But if you did buy Reforged, you can play original WC3 with all the original visuals and assets, simple toggle in the menu. Not sure why people would care about booting from the original .exe. Single player would be unchanged and you'd be subject to the most recent balance patch for any sort of online play anyway.
Coolwhhip
Neophyte
They need to sell Wow classic to the Nostalrius people first, then they can disappear.
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Then that would make EA Saruman and Ubisoft Wormtongue.
Saint Boot
Banned
Always wanted to play those WoW games, but I hate that they are not on console.
kingpotato
Ask me about my Stream Deck
Blizzard slowly dyingState of California sues Blizzard for actual terrible things they did to employees.
Jason Schreier:
Journalist that is popular to shit on posts article with actually interesting content
ManaByte
ME!!!!
Patrick S.
Banned
Luckily I still have a physical copy of the game and expansion. They won't patch that away.
kingpotato
Ask me about my Stream Deck
idgaf about him, but the info in the article contributed more than a low hanging fruit post of a gif unrelated to the discussion at hand.
The story of Blizzard since Activision bought them is a damn tragedy and I have no hope for their future offerings. I was slightly hyped for Diablo 4 but that interest has been waning.
SirKicksalot
Member
They were on a very long leash for a decade and they managed to:
- torpedo trust in Diablo
- make Starcraft irrelevant while working on it for years and making a ton of expensive content that nobody was really asking for
- miss the DOTA train
- choke on esports
- mismanage Hearthstone to the point where they can't attract new players
- put Overwatch on life support
- turn WoW into a slow-motion trainwreck
- cancel a bunch of expensive games
Activision should have taken control a long time ago.
squarealex
Member
How surprising Activision ruin Blizzard
N1tr0sOx1d3
Given another chance
If Acti/Blizz had any remorse, they would use their billions to put right their wrongs with Reforged and start over. If No Mans Sky can do it with a tiny budget and team, Acti/Blizz can, but they won’t. The management team aren’t gamers, just bean counters.
