
Making matters worse is the fact that there’s simply no going back even if you install the original Warcraft 3, you’re still going to end up with the same issues once you connect to Blizzard’s online services because the infrastructure is now the same for both the old and the new versions of the game. There’s no support for a competitive ladder. They can’t access custom campaigns that worked just fine previously. They can’t reliably connect to custom matches. At one point, Blizzard even planned on some light story retconning, which it later walked back.Ĭustomers are complaining about connectivity issues. And like a good Blizzard game, it’s easy to learn, difficult to master, also make it even deeper.”īlizzard wasn’t just going to tweak the game balance and make things a bit prettier, it was going to add voiceover and remake in-engine cutscenes to modernize them and bring them in line with the lore of the MMO. Let’s add more to the editor, because it’s already powerful. “Let’s get it to be as perfectly balanced as StarCraft. “Let’s push it,” said Blizzard’s Pete Stillwell to Polygon in an interview at the time. More than just a remaster of the original game, Blizzard described it as a “ complete reimagining” of the real-time strategy classic. The other shoe dropped later that year with the announcement of Warcraft 3: Reforged at the BlizzCon fan convention. Out came a new launcher, one that was similar to the modern launcher for Blizzard’s. That’s when Blizzard rolled out a big update for Warcraft 3, which included balance changes for its heroes, widescreen monitor support, and an update to its pool of maps.

To tell the story of how we got here, we need to dial back the clock to 2018. The end result is that the inadequacies of Warcraft 3: Reforged are being foisted upon people still playing the original Warcraft 3. That’s because this new game and the old one - the product that was first released in 2002 - are intermingled. This is a bit more complicated than your run-of-the-mill “people are angry on the internet” situation, however. Warcraft 3: Reforged came out yesterday, and fans are not happy.
