Warcraft III: Refunded General - How one company managed to mess up a remaster of a 17 year old game.

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Oddjob OTP said:
They weren't under the influence of Activision when they made Destiny or started Destiny 2 IIRC
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I think Activation started to influence bungie around the time the first dlc for destiny dropped. I think Activision was ignoring the humblings of Bungie up till then becasue the game sold well at the start but around the time the first dlc hit is when the commuinty was pretty much ready to rip bungies head off and DLC sells numbers kinda reflected it. I think a lot of it has to do with Bungie not knowing what to do with the game and creating with an egingine more finiky to program for then Bethesda's.
 
It's not just a lack of foresight or ignorance that made WC3:R a bad game but actual effort into turning it into a flaming dumpster.
Far from being angry at Activision-Blizzard, I'm genuinely impressed.
 
The worst part is if you want to play the original WC3 you have to install the Public Test Realm and even that requires Internet to run.
 
Pre-ordering is charity. That goes for pre-ordering any game from any company. You're not buying something, you're giving them a gift and hoping they will give you one in return. If you want to give charity to a large corporation then that's your business but realize what you're doing first.
 
Your Weird Fetish said:
Pre-ordering is charity. That goes for pre-ordering any game from any company. You're not buying something, you're giving them a gift and hoping they will give you one in return. If you want to give charity to a large corporation then that's your business but realize what you're doing first.
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Believe it or not back 20 years ago if you didn't preorder a popular game, you wouldn't get it on release day, and sometimes you'd have to wait a month for the second print run. I don't disagree that there is no point in preordering today now that digital content has removed scarcity from the equation, but it was totally legit back in the day.
 
Berrakh said:
So what did we learn?
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That there is always room on the Thousand Sunny.
 
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Never Scored said:
Believe it or not back 20 years ago if you didn't preorder a popular game, you wouldn't get it on release day, and sometimes you'd have to wait a month for the second print run. I don't disagree that there is no point in preordering today now that digital content has removed scarcity from the equation, but it was totally legit back in the day.
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For some niche games, even today if you buy physical, if you didn’t pre-order or have the luck of a god, you wouldn’t ever get a copy.
 
it takes actual skill to not only fuck up a remake, but fuck up the game the remake is based off. think blizz will still shill for china after corona?
 
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An Activision studio that made Tony Hawk games and remastered the Crash games got merged into Blizzard (autonomy mirite?), The team that made the remaster disbanded (also they were reponsible running the Starcraft games and that failed Moba) which explains why the lack of updates (well most of the updates since the release were underwhelming like fixing rated and naga footprints but they haven't fixed things like playing custom campaigns and the shitty online). Now the merged studio is working on a Diablo II Remaster with help of those working on Diablo 4.
 
Smug Chuckler said:
that failed Moba
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rumor had it those were the blizzard oldfags, and it failing let them get away with shit the dangerhairs never noticed to be triggered enough or didn't consider "important".

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just look at that. looks biological female? check. non-uggo? check. thicc juicy tights and big boobplate? check. exposed midriff? not even the banshee queen is allowed that anymore (wonder what that fag metzen's gonna do when his daughter starts wearing tank tops in public).

as for the merger, it's probably like blizzard "merges" serves, vicarious visions is doing their own shit but without being called "blizzard east" since activision needs the blizzard logo on the box and ea spoiled that move with andromeda. plus no one with an iota of sense would let blizzard handle any of their IPs themselves anymore at this point.
 
ZMOT said:
rumor had it those were the blizzard oldfags, and it failing let them get away with shit the dangerhairs never noticed to be triggered enough or didn't consider "important".

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just look at that. looks biological female? check. non-uggo? check. thicc juicy tights and big boobplate? check. exposed midriff? not even the banshee queen is allowed that anymore (wonder what that fag metzen's gonna do when his daughter starts wearing tank tops in public).

as for the merger, it's probably like blizzard "merges" serves, vicarious visions is doing their own shit but without being called "blizzard east" since activision needs the blizzard logo on the box and ea spoiled that move with andromeda. plus no one with an iota of sense would let blizzard handle any of their IPs themselves anymore at this point.
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Never got why they had to put that corset on sylvanas its not like it protects her or anything. Maybe it was just lazy editing where they didnt want to update the model showing her scars and figured just shove a plate on it?
 
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