More and more, the name Activison-Puddle becomes; for behold:
-allegedly only three people worked on Reforged
-all art was outsourced to a company in Malaysia
-outsourced art means there's nobody with context for what models belong in places, so you get shit like blood elves in ancient night elf barrows
-many missions fail as soon as you start them, rendering much of the game unplayable if you're unlucky
-if you own the original game they force you to download Reforged anyways even though you don't own it
-the new cutscenes, which are minimal, are either bad or contradict existing ones
-the redone cutscenes are just silly
-any and all custom maps belong to Blizzard now because they don't want another "DOTA 2 owned by Valve" situation
-if they even smell anything copyrighted in your custom maps they'll ban you
-they're banning people trying to help folks figure out how to refund the game
-the menu of the game is literally a bloated Chrome process.

And on top of that if you have not bought the game ond cd/dvd you can't buy the old version anymore they removed
it from their storefront.
If you stay offline you're old copy will the fine don't go online with the original version of the game you download
a 30gb(thats no typo you read right) patch and you break nearly every custom map.

Just a comparison what they showed 2018 and what you get now... every modder would have done better.
https://i.redd.it/hqvqe9dqk7141.png

There's also the shitty Blizzard support. I've seen so many people say that they got banned and that they don't know why, and while I've always assumed it was with good reason, there's just so many similar accounts, and this makes me doubt it even more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sCt2CdHscw

The cringey reforged version of Illidan and Arthas' fightscene especially made me feel better for cancelling my pre-order, even disregarding the whole Blitzchung episode.

How the mighty have fallen :(

Wow, this is so bad! I've always wanted to see it properly animated, but now I prefer that I didn't.

I was wondering why all the art and animations I've seen for Reforged looked so mediocre, not surprised to learn they outsourced to Asia.

Blizzard promised quality(2018) vs. Malaysia quality(2020):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4K2u2KbpdE

Just like one comment in the videos said:
"After watching this...Then i must consider this an act of treason"

I guess that's it, nothing is sacred anymore. Blizzard had one good rule that made them Blizzard and that was "don't release anything until it's at least near perfection". Such a shame and so sad.

This actually might work out in our favour again.

Part of the reason why Diablo & Hellfire got released on GoG last year likely was to - at least a little - calm the waves of the shit-typhoon that was still raging after the Diablo Immortal announcement in Nov 2018.
With this new WC3 blunder and the resulting bad PR chances for a release of Diablo 2 & ToB on GoG may actually have gotten better.

Don't worry. This won't be either the first, or the last remake, to be 10x times worse than the original counterpart!

And there is even a bright side! If Blizzard gets busted by their newer choices/priorities/shifts, all the better for us, here! For they might ultimately decide, to unchain their GOOD OLD GAMES, from their effing DRM!

Natural phenomena, son! A volcano erupts, scorches the land, but some decades later, it becomes the most fertile ground ever, with great soil for plant growth! *crosses fingers*

Why release anything new when they can just keep re-releasing the same shit over and over again and people will still keep gobbling it up like a mother's teat? Too many sheeple these days is the reason why this is the case more and more often. And them pulling the original from the store is even scummier.

Paying $30 for a DRM'd version of a game I already have just with "better" graphics? You can piss right off, thank you very much.

I already have both boxes (game&expansion). Without DRM, I'd pay 15 euro max for this version... (IF the graphics are actually better)
As it is now: 2 euros for rental. But nope... because I already finished the game.

I also have the box (game + expansion in one).

But it is with a Czech voice-over (which is not stellar to say the least) so I torrented the English version. But it doesn't change the fact that I own a copy of the game.

Anyone who pays $30 for this while already owning the originals should feel bad about their money spending decisions and for supporting this kind of stuff at all.

Czech only? Weird! I've never encountered a (boxed) game that was Dutch-only (maybe some 'games' that were marketed at young children)
When boxed PC games were still a thing, there were a lot more of them without Dutch voice-overs included than with.

This whole mess with Reforged is just another proof why we need stores like GoG.