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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2020 22:26:16 GMT -5
It came out this week, and boy, oh boy, people have found lots to hate on this trash heap of a game. It now has the lowest user rating in Metacritic history. On top of that, you can no longer officially play the original Warcraft III whatsoever. You're required to play Reforged. Not to mention, the game actually operates using Chromium for the user interface, and it gobbles up your processor's power like there's no tomorrow due to poor optimization. And, the best part (or worst, eye of the beholder) is that anything you make if you're a custom content creator... will belong to Activision Blizzard forever, and they go into details about how they will own the custom content and how you cannot sue them whatsoever.
This sums up everything. Anyone who's interested in gaming disasters is probably going to want to follow this.
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Post by Spider2024 on Feb 1, 2020 22:36:12 GMT -5
On top of that, you can no longer officially play the original Warcraft III whatsoever. Wait but what if you, like, still had the original disc from way back when it was released in 2002? Could that still be installed and played on a compatible computer today? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2020 22:41:40 GMT -5
On top of that, you can no longer officially play the original Warcraft III whatsoever. Wait but what if you, like, still had the original disc from way back when it was released in 2002? Could that still be installed and played on a compatible computer today? I'm going to look it up but unless you play offline on a dedicated old machine on the install version with its built in bugs, if you're connected to the internet, they sent an automatic patch in May 2019 disabling it. |
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Post by Spider2024 on Feb 1, 2020 22:50:25 GMT -5
Wait but what if you, like, still had the original disc from way back when it was released in 2002? Could that still be installed and played on a compatible computer today? I'm going to look it up but unless you play offline on a dedicated old machine on the install version with its built in bugs, if you're connected to the internet, they sent an automatic patch in May 2019 disabling it. Lol jeeeeeez. Never heard of any game company doing something like that before. Only thing close to it was the whole 'World of Warcraft 1.0' thing, but at least WoW is an only-online game, and those always need the updated downloads to even play. Never heard of any company fully retconning its own game voluntarily. |
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Feb 1, 2020 23:24:44 GMT -5
You can play the original WC3 solo or on LAN, but you can't access it on Bnet.
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Post by dav on Feb 2, 2020 5:44:50 GMT -5
I can understand how everyone's taking issues with all of these, but isn't the modding part essentially them saying the quiet part loudly?
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Post by CMWaters on Feb 2, 2020 8:32:18 GMT -5
I can understand how everyone's taking issues with all of these, but isn't the modding part essentially them saying the quiet part loudly? From what I've heard in other videos, this is basically them trying to cover their asses so they don't get another DOTA situation on their hands. |
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Post by Push R Truth on Feb 2, 2020 9:06:59 GMT -5
They also advertised new cut scenes and updating some lore/maps to match up with WoW. They still are actively advertising this on their website. It didn't happen. Fairly blatant bullcrap.
It was supposed to keep your records and ratings and such from the previous 18 years. It didn't.
Despite being advertised as being backwards compatible with original Warcraft 3 Maps, every single one of my personally made custom games is broken for unknown reasons. "So just open up your old game and play them!?" I can't, they force patched the old game dead.
Old Blizzard Entertainment feels long dead.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Feb 2, 2020 11:29:16 GMT -5
I was planning on getting this but now I don't want to. This is essentially Blizzard seeing how much Bethesda f***ed up Fallout 76 and saying "hold my beer."
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Post by Spider2024 on Feb 2, 2020 11:32:25 GMT -5
I was planning on getting this but now I don't want to. This is essentially Blizzard seeing how much Bethesda f***ed up Fallout 76 and saying "hold my beer." Ditto 2K with the WWE game. You might as well call this game "WC3 2K20".  |
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Post by Aya Reiko on Feb 2, 2020 13:43:28 GMT -5
They also advertised new cut scenes and updating some lore/maps to match up with WoW. They still are actively advertising this on their website. It didn't happen. Fairly blatant bullcrap. It was supposed to keep your records and ratings and such from the previous 18 years. It didn't. Despite being advertised as being backwards compatible with original Warcraft 3 Maps, every single one of my personally made custom games is broken for unknown reasons. "So just open up your old game and play them!?" I can't, they force patched the old game dead. Old Blizzard Entertainment feels long dead. |
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Post by Hurbster on Feb 2, 2020 18:34:11 GMT -5
I almost bought this. I'll give it the 'ol Fallout '76 year and give it a go then.
I have decided to give Fallout '76 another year in the hope it stops being crap.
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Post by EZ: Brainy Bae on Feb 3, 2020 16:17:33 GMT -5
Not that I was going to play this, but god am I thankful I still have my original Warcraft 3/Frozen Throne box set
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Post by Cyno on Feb 3, 2020 16:21:49 GMT -5
Remember when Blizzard had a reputation for delivering high quality products that weren't a complete mess and didn't outright lie about missing features, even after they merged with Activision? Those days seem a long time ago. There was a time where I'd give Blizzard games benefit of the doubt because they were always held to a certain standard, if not in just making solid games, then assurances that games would ship out finished and not overwhelmed with bugs. No more. Between this and WoW: Battle For Azeroth, the old Blizzard and what set it apart from other major studios is dead. Now I'm going to take really long "wait and see" approaches to everything they put out from now on between Overwatch 2, WoW Shadowlands, and Diablo 4.
And for what it's worth, the Metacritic average for professional reviews so far is 61. We can make fun of the low user score, but Metacritic doesn't have any protections from review bombings so it gets really dumb there. But the pro reviews being that low (so far) for a game you'd figure would have to try to be bad is not a good sign.
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Feb 4, 2020 11:28:46 GMT -5
They're doing refunds now. If you bought it, I urge you to get a refund immediately.
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