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A friend hit me up yesterday asking if I wanted to play a cool new RPG he found, installed, and the custom game lobby was full within 3 minutes. Warcraft 3 is
by Zyst 9y ago
A friend hit me up yesterday asking if I wanted to play a cool new RPG he found, installed, and the custom game lobby was full within 3 minutes.
Warcraft 3 is alive and well, which makes me incredibly happy.
And I think this ties in with the Mod theme of the title very strongly. I don't _love_ RTS games, I can play them but it's not my biggest hit. But the Warcraft III custom games simply blew me away. As a teenager with a fairly limited game budget I have gotten a ludicrous amount of enjoyment out of the countless hours I've put into Warcraft III.
I'd be surprised if you told me I've played the RTS/classical mode of the game over 30 hours over my life. But if you told me I've played over 4000 hours in custom games I wouldn't even bat an eyelid.
Heck, as I said even nowadays I still reinstall and play a couple of fun maps every now and then.
I guess what I'm trying to get at is that modding support is an extremely positive thing, and derivations of your creation can truly breed a life of their own which I can only see as positive for your consumers.
- skocznymroczny 9y agoBy the way, you can play "custom maps" 100% free with Starcraft 2 Starter Edition. The only things that aren't accessible to free versions of SC2 are the campaigns and ladder competitive mode. Many maps in SC2 are direct ripoffs of popular Wc3 ones (many even use Warcraft 3 assets, because Blizzard ported them to SC2 engine), but there are some original ones too.
- stale2002 9y agoOMG, custom games! Warcraft 3 custom games is probably the most influential game engine/custome game system ever created. War3 has produced multiple genres, including MOBAs (dota, lol, etc), and freaking TOWER DEFENSE. I play custom games on starcraft 2 every day.