The problem with review bombing in order to 'send a message' is any constructive criticism is going to be shoveled out with all the whiny shit and no 'message' will be delivered.
And that is going to be the biggest tragedy of this entire shitshow.
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you have to read the language for it to realize just how insipid it is. Its the sort of thing which creates an environment which eliminates the possibility of a breakout game ever occuring. Thats right, it literally destroys the possibility of the thing it was made for from ever actually occuring.
I feel horrible for the 17 year old warcraft 3 game community. Removal of infrastructure for cross region, proplay, clans, matchmaking and chat features have broken them apart from each other and crippled them. Its just sad seeing this happen to them.
If he meant the patchday, bugs and the mac thing i'd even be with him yeah, but most gameplay stuff is never black and white and comes down to finding the majority and what they want and that is difficult.
Just look into NA general discussion cesspool and compare that to mmoc.
r.i.p. alleria. 1997-2017. blizzard ruined alleria forever. blizz assassinated alleria's character and appearance.
i will never forgive you for this blizzard.
... That they were approached with doing a game for Blizzard and were turned down by Blizzard so they went elsewhere. Blizzard doesn't own DotA because of a loose EULA, they lost DotA because they didn't think DotA would turn into what it was.
It's like being the writer for the Witcher books who thought the games would fail and took a lump sum for his royalties, only to realize he lost money in the long run. Them's the breaks.
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It's going to continue to happen as long as Blizz continues to make piles of $$$. Take BFA; people can bitch all they want; but as long as those subs are still going, wtf is Blizz gonna change its ways? They have such a diehard fanbase that defend them at every turn or put the blame on Activision only, it's gonna take a lot longer of putting out crap for them these diehards to even think about not buying their latest game/patch/and so on.
I'd rather they take another 6 months and release WC:RF as a finished product.
I agree with you, but the change to the EULA isn't even a spec of an issue with the other issues in the game.
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Yeah... that was Dota.
Now with this Eula they can have their cake and eat it. So if a mod gets uber popular, blizz can again tell them to go pound sand... while maintaining rights.
Its pretty... scummy, but it's good business.
No sane person with a good idea will then use the Warcraft 3 Map editor.
The smart call would have been:
Keep the rules the same but actually capitalize on a good idea.
They could have had DotA under their wing, but didn't want to because they rather focused on WoW during that time (late TBC / Wotlk).
Any person with a brain that sometimes played Warcraft 3 saw how big DotA was pre LoL era.
Now, nobody wins, Blizzard won't get DotA 2.0, Players won't get DotA 2.0, creators will not use the Map editor and the warcraft 3 platform.
Last edited by Kralljin; 2020-02-03 at 08:22 PM.
for what was promised, for everything that wasn't delivered, for the bugs/glitch/errors and half done things and specially for apparently messing up with the old game, i think the score is deserved
I mean the user score is less about the actual quality and more about the horrible optics Blizzard has managed to scrounge up. This is review bombing, all these zeroes aren't dispassionate logical reviews, but I don't think they need to be. That 0.5 might not be an accurate review of the game, but it certainly is the result of Blizzard completely shattering their fanbase's trust.