Lemonsky did as good as they could with a job outsourced to them, seeing as Warcraft 3: Reforged was intentionally shot in the head by Activision.
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Intentionally? Why?
Yes! I donât think all of them quite cohere with the world, and there are a few interpretations I donât like. Thereâs also the fact that the original intention to have male and female models for each Hero went missing between announcement and release.
But overall, itâs lovely to see some really high quality models in there. Oh, what could have beenâŚ
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That would have been so cool, damn.
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Probably stuff like this:
" According to Jason Schreier of Bloomberg News, the remaster had problems from the start in 2017. While the team behind the remaster had a grand scope for what they wanted to bring, the Activision management did not see much value in the remaster over new games, and pressure was placed on Blizzard to focus on these newer games. The Classic Games team at Blizzard, behind the development of the remaster, was never given the necessary budget to complete their scope."
" Other games at development within Blizzard were canceled in favor of titles like Overwatch, but because they had already started taking pre-orders for the remaster, the project could not be easily canceled. Instead, a decision was made by management to release the game in an early state to avoid having to refund the pre-orders, even though the Classic Games team realized the game was not ready in that state."
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraft_III:_Reforged
So they deliberately rolled back production and the budget and then forced the dev team to release it unfinished because they didnât want to offer refunds.
Good grief. So it was intentional self-sabotage that cost ActiBlizz a good deal of reputation.
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Ended up with Naga and Bansheeâs having human ears aswell, no?
Also they wanted to add World of Warcraft locations like the Suramar-bubble in the Broken Isles.
They say it was the purist fault for that not being added, but I am certain it had more to do with a lack of budget and time⌠Otherwise they couldâve releases a âoriginalâ and a âremasteredâ version of the campaign 
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Yep, sadly so.
I believe this was because the team behind the models had very little to no prior knowledge of Warcraft, and were simply handed some rough notes on what to make. They also had limited time to work.
(The model team was outsourced and not Blizzard)
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It was definitely lack of budget that prevented them from overhauling the campaign, considering they did overhaul some missions (The Culling, The Fall of Silvermoon, The Siege of Dalaran, and bizarrely, The Dungeons of Dalaran and the secret mission The Crossing, which I think didnât really need being overhauled).
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Grumblegrumble capitalism. You all know the rant by now.
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I am still immensely annoyed that they shut down the old Battle.net servers over it though. Completely unnecessary move that gutted the WC3 community. It never really recovered as many still today refuse to get the Reforged edition. Especially with the lack of leader boards and tournaments.
Because they wanted to focus resources on higher profile games (Diablo 4).
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Couldâve easily integrated that into the Reforged, one way or another, since they do allow the old version to be played aswell
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this guy is about to drop a book that heâs been writing about blizzard and itâs going to be a doozy to read all of the stuff heâs uncovered
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Yes, this is a must-buy for me. Out in October!
"Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future Of Blizzard Entertainment
For video game fans, the name Blizzard Entertainment was once synonymous with perfection. The renowned company behind classics like Diablo and World of Warcraft was known to celebrate the joy of gaming over all else. What was once two UCLA studentsâ simple mission â to make games they wanted to play â launched an empire with thousands of employees, millions of fans, and billions of dollars.
But when Blizzard cancelled a buzzy project in 2013, it gave Bobby Kotick, the infamous CEO of corporate parent Activision, the excuse he needed to start cracking down on Blizzardâs proud autonomy. Activision began invading Blizzard from the inside. Glitchy products, PR disasters, mass layoffs, and a staggering lawsuit marred the companyâs reputation and led to its ultimate reckoning.
Based on firsthand interviews with more than 300 current and former employees, Play Nice chronicles the creativity, frustration, beauty, and betrayal across the epic 33-year saga of Blizzard Entertainment, showing us what it really means to âbleed Blizzard blue.â Full of colorful personalities and dramatic twists, this is the story of what happens when the ruthless pursuit of profit meets artistic idealism. "
The 2013 cancelled project must be Titan. I always said that Activision had been pretty hands-off with Blizzard for the first few years of owning them (Activision-Blizzard is a misnomer used to burnish the company name; Blizzard was only ever a component part of Activision; a more accurate name would have been Activision-Vivendi), and then something happened to change that. Blizzard spun gold out of Titanâs collapse (Overwatch), but that mustnât have been enough for Activision.
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Itâs a must-read. Then Iâll keep feeding this beastly company money anyway because I just love RPingâŚ
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At least Iâve resolved to feed it as little as possible, buying only WoW subscription and base editions of expansions, and nothing else.
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The best system in a list of subpar crap
Iâd hardly call it the best. If anything thatâs simply defeatism and refusal to try anything else over the status quo.
I ainât going on this rant today!
So what do you figure the end boss of the expansion will be?
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