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Warcraft 3: Reforged launch was 'a hard week,' Blizzard president says
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If you wanted to launch Warcraft 3 as an early access title, why didn't you just let the community know the change of plans?
Took awhile after the merger for that to come through, but now that most of the old guard is gone, they sure are.
"We've heard from them that we did not achieve that bar."
Please—you already knew, and forced it out anyway. After already cutting its budget and scope, then delaying it, and it still being a mess (with minimal additions!) a month before launch.
Please—you already knew, and forced it out anyway. After already cutting its budget and scope, then delaying it, and it still being a mess (with minimal additions!) a month before launch.
Exactly, they can't keep feigning ignorance. Even the blind can see through that.
This honestly wouldn't be even half as bad if they hadn't just gutted and ruined the original client. Just give me back my original Warcraft 3 and I won't give a fuck. Blizzard sucks.
I feel sorry for the developers who were not the decision makers on scaling back the project and pushing it out the door before it was ready. Corporate can suck Thrall's dick, though.
At least he admits that Blizzard is just like every other big company now. Release unpolished game first, worry about getting it to where it should be later and act like they're being generous in doing so.
The Blizzard people used to love is dead.
Being a master at it would mean people are actually falling for it.
Don't forget StarCraft: Ghosts
This game should be called back and completely remade with the promises that was given to us in 2018. It's not impossible and we've seen it be done after the disastrous release of FF14. As it stands now it's like a hollowed empty husk and no amount of tweaks and patches will fix what is fundamentally a broken game. Reforged doesn't mean a 100% copy paste of the previous game except for a few model upgrades. We were promises new cinematic cutscenes, new UI, new missions, quests and expanded lore. What the hell happened during the years this game was being developed? It's riddled with bugs, poor optimization, stripped features from the original game and a horrible consumer unfriendly EULA that kills all innovation.
I cannot believe Blizzard managed to flunk so hard with this game.
If there's a company I don't doubt they'll keep supporting and making better it'll be Blizzard. But it would never have released in that state before.
Yeah, besides "supporting" and "building", you've definitely shown what else you're willing to do to your games after launch, that's for sure.
... and maximal substractions.
Its amazing cause Activision is publishing and creating games of a better quality than Blizzard, Sekiro, Crash Trilogy, Spyro Trilogy, Crash Team Racing (CoD is still pretty decent) never in a million years could you have told me in the past I would end up loving Activsions output more than Blizzards yet here we are.
when this company puts far far more effort into pretty much remaking crash and spyro compared with freaking warcraft, like their biggest brand, you know how out of touch their management is right now. They have no clue wtf they are doing. The clueless marketing dudes that have no clue how the company got to where it is now, they probably go "RTS won't sell" or something like that. This isn't any RTS, this is your biggest brand that you have millions of subscribers to it right now and they would probably be interested to check it out for story alone and the interest was there, hence the blow back.
Maybe instead of laying off or forcing out your top creators left and right (pretty much all the remaining leads on sc2 recently quit), fire some of those people that make these horrible decisions instead of just being sorry all the time. What a spinless, ineffective CEO he has been so far. All he has done is apologizing, no positive action or change so far.
Maybe instead of laying off or forcing out your top creators left and right (pretty much all the remaining leads on sc2 recently quit), fire some of those people that make these horrible decisions instead of just being sorry all the time. What a spinless, ineffective CEO he has been so far. All he has done is apologizing, no positive action or change so far.
They dont need people to believe their lies when they still buy their stuff anyway.
We'll see what will happen with shadowlands after that pile of garbage expansion beta for azeroth or with diablo 4.
Blizzard did not develop the Crash and Spyro remakes, though. In fact, they had absolutely nothing to do with these games. Neither did Activision do anything but fund/publish them. Toys for Bob developed Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Vicarious Visions Crash N. Sane Trilogy and Beenox Crash Team Racing.
I really don't know what Blizzard expected when they put out a video promising something on par with Spyro Reignited Trilogy and Crash Bandicoot games, and then announce in a panel that they were scaling back on the promises then never bothered showing fans what they were actually getting. In addition despite scaling back on their promises they didn't change the price.
Who is actually dumb enough to buy the "Oh some people complained and then we looked back and thought 'this should totally look like a game that came out in 2002'". Nobody could seriously look at the two culling videos and think the one we got was actually better.
Who is actually dumb enough to buy the "Oh some people complained and then we looked back and thought 'this should totally look like a game that came out in 2002'". Nobody could seriously look at the two culling videos and think the one we got was actually better.
It was not about "reaching that bar" for fucks sake. It was about going to the bar you reached before and kicking it down a well while asking for 30 dollars.
Sure, you had no idea what was going on with this product.
Must be indeed rough realizing that writing Blizzard onto something isn't enough to make people eat up the crap you put out anymore.
I remember when the apologies from Blizzard were more "sorry it's delayed, but we want to do this right" and less "sorry your expectations were wrong". But one shouldn't be surprised when "you think you do, but you don't" is put in charge.
A big issue is that Blizzard needed the community to tell them that they didn't reach the bar for a Blizzard product. Blizzard used to have no problem accurately looking at a product pre-release and deciding to hold and refine or drop entirely.
No! The apologies are way more entertaining than the games at this point! Keep at it!
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