Warcraft III: Reforged

[paul]

The drums of war thunder once again. Wacraft III: Reforged—the recreation of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne—will be available at 00:01 CET on 29 January 2020.

Though we’ve been working hard to get Reforged in your hands before the end of the year, as we started approaching the finish line, we felt we’d need a little extra development time for finishing touches. As always, our goal is to honor the high standards you hold us to.

Step Back in Time

Warcraft III: Reforged takes you back to a tumultuous time in Azeroth’s history, when a dark shadow eclipsed a peaceful land, the world trembled before the coming of the Burning Legion, and heroes risked it all to prevent the death of their world.
Soon you’ll be able to relive the definitive real-time strategy classic, with revitalized visuals, an epic single-player campaign spanning over 60 missions, rebalanced online play, a suite of contemporary social and matchmaking features, a vast universe of player-created games, and more.

Welcome Back to War

You can pre-purchase the standard edition of Warcraft III: Reforged digitally now from the Blizzard Shop for €29.99—or for €39.99, you can pick up the Spoils of War Edition, which includes a host of extras as well as in-game bonuses for other Blizzard games that will unlock immediately upon pre-purchase. In addition, players who pre-purchase either version will get access to the ongoing beta test for Warcraft III: Reforged.
See below for all the bonus items included in the Spoils of War Edition:

• Warcraft III: Reforged
  • Champion of the Horde Thrall Hero Skin
  • Daughter of the Seas Proudmoore Hero Skin
  • Fallen King Arthas Hero Skin
  • Emerald Nightmare Cenarius Hero Skin
• World of Warcraft
  • Meat Wagon Mount
• Overwatch
  • Player Icons: Human, Orc, Undead, Night Elf, and Lich King
  • Animated Sprays: Footman, Grunt, Ghoul, and Archer
• Diablo III
  • Mal’ganis pet
• ​Hearthstone
  • Third War card back
• Heroes of the Storm
  • Anub’arak Hero
  • Jaina Hero
  • Thrall Hero
  • Tyrande Hero
• StarCraft II
  • Alliance Console Skin
  • Horde Console Skin
  • Sentinels Console Skin
  • Scourge Console Skin
• StarCraft: Remastered
  • Spoils of War Console

Charging Toward Battle

We’re looking forward to kick off whole new era of Warcraft III, and we can’t wait to face off with your mighty armies online starting January 29!

Warcraft III: Reforged Releases on January 29, 2020 — Warcraft III: Reforged — Blizzard News



Warcraft III: Reforged

[PoisonRemedy]

R.I.P. Warcraft 3 False Advertisment

1.4 user score pe metacritic, daca vreti sa jucati W3 atunci mai bine jucati cel original ( defapt nici aia nu puteti ca l-au scos de pe battlenet)

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[PoisonRemedy]

0.5 pe metacritic, cel mai slab scor la un joc de pe metacritic, daca ajunge la 0.3 o sa fie cel mai mic scor din istorie

[Cristy]

lmfao, king of epic fail

[paul]

Despre problemele de dezvoltare si management al proiectului:

Blizzard Entertainment's disastrous remake of the classic video game Warcraft III last year was the result of mismanagement and financial pressures, according to newly revealed documents and people with knowledge of the failed launch. [...]

At the time, the company apologized for the launch and said it had chosen to backtrack on updating the cinematics because “we did not want the in-game cutscenes to steer too far from the original game.” But documentation produced after its release, as well as interviews with 11 people who worked on or close to the game, indicate that Reforged was actually rescoped due to budget cuts and internal arguments over the game’s direction. [...]

“The central issue with Warcraft III: Reforged was an early, unclear vision and misalignment about whether the game was a remaster or a remake. This led to other challenges with the scope and features of the game, and communication on the team, with leadership and beyond, which all snowballed closer to launch. Developers across Blizzard pitched in to help, but ultimately bug fixing and other tasks related to the end of development couldn’t correct the more fundamental issues.”

The spokesman added that as a result of the negative reactions to Warcraft III: Reforged, the upcoming Diablo II remake, planned for release in September, will be “a pure remaster, faithful to the art, gameplay, and cinematics of the original game.” [...]

Blizzard chose to plow ahead with a premature release of Warcraft III: Reforged largely because it had already taken pre-orders from players, according to people familiar with the decision.

"We took pre-orders when we knew the game wasn't ready yet," they said, adding later that the company needed to “resist the urge to ship an unfinished product because of financial pressure.”

The Blizzard spokesman said that “in hindsight, we should have taken more time to get it right, even if it meant returning pre-orders.” [...]

Members of the team began worrying that they had promised more than they could deliver. Remastering Warcraft III was more complicated than their previous remake, StarCraft, thanks to its three-dimensional models. The team was small, the production was disorganized and the amount of work in front of them was daunting. It had taken months to revamp one of Warcraft III’s levels; now they would have to do the same for dozens more. [...]

“We have developers who have dealt with exhaustion, anxiety, depression and more for a year now," the developers later said in the postmortem. "Many have lost trust in the team and this company. Many players have also lost trust, and the launch certainly didn't help an already rough year for Blizzard's image."

The team, which had a reputation of taking on outcasts from other Blizzard departments, was restricted in hiring due to a limited budget. Some people had to do multiple jobs at once, working many nights and weekends to try to finish the game. Technological obstacles and conflicts among the team only exacerbated the problems. A mass layoff of nearly 800 people in February 2019 hollowed out Blizzard’s support departments, which also hurt the team. [...]

Warcraft III: Reforged began gradually losing features. Management threw out the revised scripts and re-recordings the team had done, according to the people familiar with the process, choosing instead to stick with the original dialogue and voice acting. [...]

The next Classic Games project, Diablo II: Resurrected, due out in September, is being produced by other teams. The project was transferred to the Diablo IV team and Albany, New York-based Vicarious Visions, which was absorbed into Blizzard earlier this year. People who have seen and played that game are optimistic about its chances. [...]

Inside Activision Blizzard's Botched Warcraft III: Reforged Game - Bloomberg

[Papillon_]

Păcat Warcraft III e un joc foarte bun, merita un remaster de calitate.
Mi-a plăcut foarte mult jocul când a apărut, îl jucam la internet cafe, la început nu aveam un PC suficient de bun, ce vremuri.

[olteanug]

Patru ani au trecut de atunci. Patru ani de la două catastrofe:
1. Pandemia de COVID-19
2. Catastrofa de Warcraft 3 Reforged