Blizzard Talks Warcraft 3: Reforged Complaints, Patches Coming Soon

The "apology" doesn't address the major problems, specifically the mods now belonging to Activision and only the units receiving a visual makeover, the backgrounds and textures are all the same.

Fans were promised a makeover akin to the StarCraft remaster which redid everything from scratch, not this half-hearted attempt. It damn sure isn't worth $30, more like $5, if that. Deeply disappointing, this isn't the Blizzard I've known and loved for nearly 3 decades.

Activision killed Blizzard... RIP legend

Why is a community manager communicating this lol. Where is the project's director or even the studio lead.

If they care so little they're having the frontline take the burn, I have low hopes.

Um...that wasn't an apology! Glad I didn't buy this dumpster fire of a game. Blizzard, you need to do what Bungie did, and leave Activision! They are absolutely destroying your reputation!

I think they could have avoided a lot of this by communicating stronger, and earlier on, that they were not going forward with a lot of the changes that they first announced. I think they did announce this, but apparently, millions of people (myself included) missed that messaging.

That said, it is pretty shady that this replaced the original WC3 for people that already owned it, when they specifically said that wasn't going to happen.

D4 had better be the most amazing shit ever, (although even that already looks like it's heading in a bad direction as well).

Ugh.

So, I know that criticism for this game is susceptible to hyperbole (as is expected of such emotionally charged, high profile legacy games with unattainable expectations). The wave of early negative feedback went viral and triggered a massive emotional response of review bombing. It's one of many reasons why I take most meta reviews (users & critics) with a huge pinch of salt.

That said, in this case, the criticism is 100% justified towards Activision/Blizzard. For their abysmal handling of this public relations debacle and complete lack of accountability. How do massive companies (in entertainment no less) still make such fundamental mistakes as blame shifting and finger pointing with their customer base, in 2020!? Like when Star Wars TLJ had a similar critical response and the apparent PR strategy was insulting the fanbase...

The fact that Blizzard keeps responding in the relative obscurity of their site Forum instead of proper public responses through larger media platforms, reeks of insecurity. Then there's the laughable "we want to preserve the true spirit of Warcraft 3" excuse... which would be akin to "remastering" an old movie on BluRay but keeping the VHS visual fidelity for the same excuse.

I'm no corporate apologist, but normally I can somewhat "justify" certain standards of the AAA game industry — There is no excuse for a total lack of accountability.

A shame, another good developer is definitely ruined. I had a good time with overwatch and hearthstone, played some starcraft 2... But with time, blizzard only disappoints. Tried to balance and add new stuff for overwatch and they failed at that time and time again. I was impressed with hearthstone, played very recently, the early game seemed balanced and fair... then, a desert themed update arrived, don't remember the name now... It added "quests" and some of them were obviously broken (like the infamous druid). At that point, I noticed their schemes... Adding new over powered cards, sell them in loot boxes aimed at those players who wants to "compete", they don't want to fall behind, etc.. It's scummy, to say the least. It's not failed attempts to balance the game, just like in overwatch, it's more inline with manipulation.

Honestly, after reading the message all I got was; "Sorry, not sorry."

Translation: "We want to minimize costs."

Fine. But this shouldn't be $30.

Blizzard's real message to gamers: "Thanks for the money chumps."

It was released too early and the mod thing is bad. I didn't play the mods, but if it keeps people from playing it in general, that's a problem.

It sounds this game came out 6 months too early considering what they want,need,must fix

Their mod policy is more perturbing.

Overall though, none of this is surprising, Blizzard has always been a fairly arrogant company.

Bottom line is why did they **** with OG warcraft 3? That's going to be one of the biggest gamer disrespects of all time. Of course the answer is money.

Blizzard should have kept y'all's 💰 and let you suck on your buyer's remorse! You were so hungry for your nostalgia boner that you bought a game knowing it's blizz 2020. You are lucky they still seem to care enough to offer refunds to basically everyone.

I got a refund a day after purchasing. Absolute trash game.