BlizzCon 2019 - Warcraft III: Reforged Deep Dive

[KrayZ33]

There we are. The cutscenes are truely being re"forged" (Illidan vs Arthas etc.)

[Sastank]

That delay though. Glad they asked for our money so far in advance. Maybe we'll get this when Star Citizen comes out.

Delay? I didn't see one

[Sastank]

It was due out in 2019. Battle.net still shows this, in fact. And we didn't get even a vague mention of the campaign's release.

Soooo they didn't mention a delay and you're you know, being some dude online upset and guessing? Okay thanks

[Unlimited Power]

There's less than two months of the year left and they gave no release date. You do the math.

Didn't they say "very soon" in the opening ceremony though? And as was mentioned, WC3:R has always had a listed release date of 12/31/2019 on the launcher which just means it'll release before the end of the year. That date still hasn't changed.

If anything they'd outright announce it if they actually expected they'd have to delay the release as most crowds tend to favour delaying release for additional polish.

[Sorrowseer]

Whats with the female DH?

[|Dexter|]

I don't will pay a penny for it until it officially releases the same goes for that WoW Xpack, I don't pre-order anything... finish your game/xpack and I will think about buying the final product.

[Wildberry]

A bunch of content that I was looking forward to got cut. Oof, that's depressing, considering this is pretty much the only Blizzard title I was even remotely hyped about. Feels really bad, considering the punch in the gut that was Shadowlands yesterday.

[dragnipur]

I hate that they aren't making it more WoW aligned. That was such a cool idea to me.

They are already at the GoG store.Go get them

[Magicon]

I've heard many of the most attractive features of the game, including a campaign compatible with modern lore, an updated script and cinematics have all been scrapped.

If true, it's just a reskin.

They have changed the buildings of the Blood/High elves and Draenei to fit what is in WoW tho. They made Dalaran look like WOW models, they made Lordaeron buildings look like how they look on wow. They changed the Weapons of Illidan to his wow weapons. Etc Etc

[Frozen Death Knight]

They have changed the buildings of the Blood/High elves and Draenei to fit what is in WoW tho. They made Dalaran look like WOW models, they made Lordaeron buildings look like how they look on wow. They changed the Weapons of Illidan to his wow weapons. Etc Etc

From how I understood things they apparently scrapped the revamped Stratholme map with callbacks to WoW lore from last BlizzCon and using the camera from a ground view to make it more cinematic. They also scrapped re-recording the dialogue with the current voice actors to make it more in line with current WoW, which also rules out an altered script which would help fix some of the inconsistencies with modern lore because of the retcons. Another piece they scrapped was the remakings of the old cinematics like they did with the opening trailer from last year, so we're just getting the old ones with higher screen resolutions.

[Sastank]

There's less than two months of the year left and they gave no release date. You do the math.

They also didn't give a delay notification at their biggest event, and they are legally bound to release in 2019 according to laws in the EU about pre-orders releasing within next calendar year.

YOU do the math.

Until they come out and randomly say "It's delayed" stop assuming the worst. Fabricating things and bending facts to your will doesn't make you right.

Will be sure to come back soon and again in 20202 to see which "math" checked out for you.

[Magicon]

From how I understood things they apparently scrapped the revamped Stratholme map with callbacks to WoW lore from last BlizzCon and using the camera from a ground view to make it more cinematic. They also scrapped re-recording the dialogue with the current voice actors to make it more in line with current WoW, which also rules out an altered script which would help fix some of the inconsistencies with modern lore because of the retcons. Another piece they scrapped was the remakings of the old cinematics like they did with the opening trailer from last year, so we're just getting the old ones with higher screen resolutions.

Yeah, they rushed the release date, that's why this is happening. if they had 1 more year, then they would have made it before time run out. This is still pathetic and it is all lies now. Is this even legal? Hyping people up at Blizzcon by saying they add like everything to the game, make people pre-order and then 1 year later, just remove most of the features people were paying for!?

[Frozen Death Knight]

Yeah, they rushed the release date, that's why this is happening. if they had 1 more year, then they would have made it before time run out. This is still pathetic and it is all lies now. Is this even legal? Hyping people up at Blizzcon by saying they add like everything to the game, make people pre-order and then 1 year later, just remove most of the features people were paying for!?

Apparently the reason they scrapped some of this stuff was because some people complained that it wasn't pure enough to the original story by mixing in WoW elements. Personally, I am not a fan of every lore decision Blizzard made with WoW (especially TBC), but I would not have minded some alterations to fix the more glaring retcons like the Draenei storyline on Draenor. Frankly, WC3 has not really been that much retconned when it comes to the missions and most of the dialogue. It's mostly when WC3 refers to various backstories like the origin of the Broken Isles, the War of the Ancients, and the Draenei when things truly get messy.

Fixing those issues while making the maps look more like how Azeroth looks like in WoW would be more than fine additions in my eyes. If there is one aspect I think WoW has always done better than WC3 it is creating a living breathing world with some very gorgeous looking art like the environments. Changing those aspects in no way ruins the core of what is WC3's story in my eyes. It's just a shame that some of the naysayers can't see us eye to eye on this.

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BlizzCon 2019 - Warcraft III: Reforged Deep Dive

Since WC3 can't get its own forum currently, can I cross-post this to the megathread we have?

[chaud]

Since WC3 can't get its own forum currently, can I cross-post this to the megathread we have?

Sure, keep that thread going!