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There's a decently sized cohort that hasn't forgiven ActiBlizzard for what they did to Warcraft III as well. Nothing like ruining a 20 year old game by forceabl
by noptd 5y ago
There's a decently sized cohort that hasn't forgiven ActiBlizzard for what they did to Warcraft III as well. Nothing like ruining a 20 year old game by forceably replacing it with a broken, partial reimplementation.
- krastanov 5y agoI am out of the loop, could you elaborate?
- totony 5y agoBlizzard has been under a lot of bad press because they have screwed game releases lately (mostly because of shitty management?). They've also had bad press on political issues like the hong kong esports things and others iirc. for warcraft3: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/blizzard-botched-warcraft-iii-remake-after-internal-fights-pressure-over-costs-1.1631788 https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/blizzard-botched-warcraft-iii-re...
- phlpsrmn 5y agoThis article has quite conveniently _lost_ some important words: >Blizzard also faced widespread criticism and calls for a boycott after banning a player who . >In lieu of official support, a group of fans began writing their own patches for the game, building a service called that aims to add back missing features.
- totony 5y agoI think the service they're referring to is https://www.w3champions.com/ https://www.w3champions.com/