It looks horrible. The classic menus were like one big ICQ chatroom. This looks more like the StarCraft 2 menus.
For reference:
(Yes, it's all nostalgia)
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Yup. The chat room motif made the whole thing work, across all of their early games.I still prefer the old custom game menus to the ones in StarCraft 2.
Battle.net 1.0 is bloody fantastic. I'll miss it.
China care.
By the time it will release people have found something else to boycott.
We are?
Yup. The chat room motif made the whole thing work, across all of their early games.
I don't understand why they so utterly destroyed it with SC2.
Works for me. I never care for public chat in such games, and always just hurried into matchmaking.
Yeah, it basically doubled as a chat room, since you got dumped into public chat when you first logged in. Then it had unlisted channels that anyone could join or make, leading to a sort of natural subcommunities being borne from the games and custom maps being played. Plus friends lists to keep track of folks. And since you could communicate across games it meant you never had to leave.It's mostly used for clan chats in Battle.net 1.0. A community gathering for your friends. The StarCraft II chat isn't as 'in your face' which means it doesn't force interactivity as much.
When you don't chat much on these games it doesn't matter much. I agree with that.
...do people think that Blizzard has the ability to overthrow the Chinese government?
Like, what's the win condition here?
Do you really think people will Boycott blizzard and skip Diablo 4, the new Overwatch game and Warcraft 3 Reforged? lmao
People will soon forget and forgive.
Have Blizzard China closed down, lose 20% of their annual revenue and have hundreds of jobs on the line?...do people think that Blizzard has the ability to overthrow the Chinese government?
Like, what's the win condition here?
Yes they will and I am boycotting all of those.
I've probably put in close to 1,000 hours into Diablo 3, I was ready for Warcraft 3 on day one and now I won't be buying a single Blizzard game.
Doubtful but you never know. Warcraft 2 saw Saturn and PSone releasesSince Xbox officially supports mouse and keyboard, have they said anything about an Xbox version?
As someone who spent most of his teenage years playing WC3, I'm skipping the shit outta this.Do you really think people will Boycott blizzard and skip Diablo 4, the new Overwatch game and Warcraft 3 Reforged? lmao
People will soon forget and forgive.
Do you really think people will Boycott blizzard and skip Diablo 4, the new Overwatch game and Warcraft 3 Reforged? lmao
People will soon forget and forgive.
I'll be skipping them, and as I'm a big fan of classic Warcraft I was planning to get Warcraft 3 at least, and likely Overwatch and Diablo as well. Yeah, I'm not "everyone", but every bit helps.Do you really think people will Boycott blizzard and skip Diablo 4, the new Overwatch game and Warcraft 3 Reforged? lmao
People will soon forget and forgive.
I think the original goal was to have a june release but something must have happened for it to be delayed like that.It's been 10-15 years since I played WC3 but from what I remember the UI looked almost identical to the one posted in the OP, I had no chat room or launcher when playing the game. I don't see any problem with how it looks.
Really had expected it to launch by now though.
Who cares about those people?Do you really think people will Boycott blizzard and skip Diablo 4, the new Overwatch game and Warcraft 3 Reforged? lmao
People will soon forget and forgive.
Why are there 5 races? It's been a while but I'm pretty sure even with the addon there were only 4.
It'sWhy are there 5 races? It's been a while but I'm pretty sure even with the addon there were only 4.
It's been 10-15 years since I played WC3 but from what I remember the UI looked almost identical to the one posted in the OP, I had no chat room or launcher when playing the game. I don't see any problem with how it looks.
Really had expected it to launch by now though.
The last icon borrows elements from the previous 4 ones (Lordaeron's shield, Horde hammer, Frostmourne and an elven spear)Ah ok. Forgot that option existed. Weird to give it as much space as the other icons but I'm not an UI designer so who knows.
It's mostly used for clan chats in Battle.net 1.0. A community gathering for your friends. The StarCraft II chat isn't as 'in your face' which means it doesn't force interactivity as much.
When you don't chat much on these games it doesn't matter much. I agree with that.