10 Things Blizzard Want You To Forget
3. Warcraft III: Reforged's Blizzcon 2018 Demo
Ideally, Blizzard would like you to forget the whole of Blizzcon 2018. Not only was the Diablo Immortal announcement a failure, but there other big announcement made promises they couldn't keep.
Warcraft III was an RTS classic, begging for a remaster. What Blizzard was promising was a complete rework graphically as well as fully animated cut-scenes to bring the origin story of World Of Warcraft alive for both new and existing audiences. What players got was the opposite.
The game launched with a whole host of bugs which is not unusual in this video games climate. What was unacceptable was the move away from set promises. Completely reworked cut-scenes were replaced by re-skins of the original dialogue sections.
The game's UI was almost identical and sluggish. Even worse, you couldn't even launch the original game anymore without going through Blizzards online client, thus sacrificing created mods into the hands of Blizzard's copyright rules.
Once again, a lot of this controversy would have been avoided if Blizzard were transparent. It is a mammoth undertaking to re-work and animate cutscenes. If they decided it wasn't worth the effort, they should have made an announcement letting people know what they were buying.
Instead, fans were sold on a lie and let Blizzard know it.