Give people some modding tools from the start (as GD did) and then let people host Custom games like WC3 does. The balsy move would’ve been a mix between how GD and WC3 handle it: As long as you dont do explicit stuff or start asking payments, it’s rough for them to do much against it (or just time better spent elsewhere). Every now and then there’s a cease-and-desist order, but many of those things have been going on for years. People will probably be able to simply mod it and run a private server with D2:R, just as they are doing for years now with D2:LOD or World of Warcraft.
Right now Blizzard is sending out surveys and considering adding more modern features to the game. That ultimately wasn’t the problem, it was a lack of quality of what they had made, not what they hadn’t done.ĭ2:R, until they removed TCP/IP yes, was supposed to be a 1:1 of the original with improved graphics but also newer features to replace what no longer fit in today’s gaming/computing space like it did 20 years ago. The original claim was that Warcraft simply lost it’s original vision and bad on them for not telling people what the product was. Short answer, Warcraft 3 Reforged was a MESS. Most of the complaints were due to a lack of quality and the inability to implement more features and overall stability.
The reason it failed is the funding on it was cut (by Activision themselves) and the deadline wasn’t extended until it was ready. Having multiple varieties of environments in a single act with limited memory and HDD space at the time, as well as rendering issues with detailed environments, it all meant that gaming still required quite the imagination to fill in the blanks at the time.ĭ2:R turned out as it is because Blizzard didn’t want to risk alienating the hardcore crowd like they did with Warcraft. You are right this TC here for GD does a great job reimagining what D2 would be like with modern hardware and software.
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