Why isn't blizzard releasing remaster Warcraft 1 & 2?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=420SUSIuU3c ← this seams really fun game to play for the lore freaks. a person redid with voice lines all the Horde campaign in Warcraft 2 with Warcraft 3 tech took him 4 years.

Enjoy.

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Wasn’t Reforged poorly received or am I remembering incorrectly?

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yeah but someone took the engine and made Warcraft 2 with it. Hope blizzard catch on it looked fun to watch the streams of that version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83DoS1TgLIo&ab_channel=AdmiralIddy ← looked really fun to watch

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they weren’t gonna release new classic content either then a private server did it and blizzard considered doing it themselves (for you know, money.) so if this mod* becomes the talk of the town they can consider remasters as well

yeah i hope so

even savix replies https://youtu.be/IQ3naqtb60o

It tends to happen when you show remastered 3D cutscenes in the trailer but the game launches with the same old isometric view cutscenes just with new models.

Among other things of course.

They managed to royally screw up W3, which is the most popular Warcraft game by a huge margin and you want them to remaster the older ones?

It was poorly received because Blizzard didn’t put any effort into it (it wasn’t them who did the remaster if I remember correctly).

If they actually make a good remake of the first and second game, there is no problem then.

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It would be fun, also allows to make the story a bit more than a paragraph of text between missions, but after how “Warcraft III Reforged” landed, i’m not sure if Blizz would want to do it.

It was i think because of technical issues and some drama around not releasing what was promised :smiley:

I think blizz should stay away from wc1 & 2. They would turned it in to my little pony. I can see doomhammer changed to rainbowhammer.

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That’s for sure, W1 and 2 had pretty dark themes. Knowing Blizzard, they’ll probably tune down on a lot of non-PC stuff that makes the charm of universe, and make the orcs look like they did nothing wrong because they had no choice or whatever.

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That looks awesome, I’d love to have it.

Orcs just try to be friends with humans. Humans give lands where orcs can build new home for their familys. I can see little Garrosh running on green lands after double rainbows looking for treasures.

Warcraft 3 Reforged is basically in alpha with as much rolled back as was necessary for it to even run.

It is a disaster and reflects the death throes of a Blizzard, especially team 1, that were being pushed around by absolutely idiotic resource management from the higher ups, making them completely unable to plan and build anything meaningful.

I’ve heard the story many times now.

They owe us a proper Warcraft 3 Reforge before they even think about Warcraft 1 and 2.

However, all that said, that looks like a cool campaign. Gonna check it out.

Soo one of few people i watch, Rhykker, has sort of a weekly reset on news for games and he shared a bunch of posts of devs who just blamed so much on Bobby that if even half of it is true the company should now become sooo much better over the next few years. (Well, that’s my personal hope of course)

It was, but it wasnt because it was an rts. Many people were hyped up for it. But it did not deliver on the promises of reowrking all campaign maps , the updates were also forced onto the older version wich some people still played with potato pcs and after the huge patch couldnt anymore. Custom maps couldnt be properly imported for a while. And other functions like clans or ranked matched were missing

Despite all of this i still hoped they might improving reforged by adding new models wich could be used for making custom maps but also could be used by blizz to make entirely new campgains including possible reworks of 1 and 2. but yeah thats not going to happen. They arent going to bother to invest to fixing up their mistakes

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Anyone who has spoken to virtually any Blizzard employee for the last 10 years knows about the problems of the merger in 2008, and how much of it was downstream from Bobby. I’ve yet to meet a single person who liked him, but his cronies and the investors kept him on the throne. This is why he was so obsessed with money - it was literally all that kept him going.

Blizzard’s team 1 in particular got bullied because they made games in a genre that became more and more niche. Their games were still tremendously successful, profitable, and fun however, but apparently ABK just couldn’t be satisfied with that, and drove them all away.

Blizzard’s team 1 is now effectively an independent studio called Frost Giant, and it’s even got Mike Morhaime funding it along with many of us Blizzard fans. It’s a fun game they’re making. :slight_smile:

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Right. Soo… In the near future perhaps we can hope for some awesomeness