I remember hearing at one point long after WoW had lost its soul, that Blizz was asked if they had plans to put out another game in the Warcraft RTS series. They said no, "those games are stupid." So, there you go. I can only imagine Reforged is a petulant attempt to say "look, we can do it better!"
It's shit, plain and simple. Blizzard now claims ownership of EVERY custom map. Thats just bull. The map belongs to it's creators, not fuckin blizzard. Not only that, they now forbid the use of 'copyrighted materials' on the maps, which means no more weeb maps, which is silly. these are fan-made.
Chinese knockoff sounds about right. The graphics are worse, gameplay is buggy, and for an added bonus they actually REMOVED FEATURES that the original had.
Did the prepurchase here, So had to play the game. It feels 50% done, including bugs. Also in the mid of the battle you can't make a different between hero and normal units, aka bad design.
I just hope they'll do some fine tuning in future. Else it's RIP my money :(
Ironically, that 'Reforged' sword design might actually be useful for clever swordplay tricks, like disarmament, trips, and getting around shield-blocking.
"It looks like a Chinese Knockoff" well.. you are almost right. Blizzard outsourced the entire Model Creation to a company in Malaysia. Its not China but not that far away from China on the Globe :P
The issue just seems to be that it's simply nothing more than a model update with widescreen support. There's nothing really there, and doesn't offer anything more than what the original 2002 game did. In fact, it just offers less.
It really does come off as just a heartless repackaging.
