However, Activision pressured Blizzard to focus on its flagship franchises that were making tons of money like Overwatch and Diablo IV. They didn’t see Warcraft 3 as something that would become a billion-dollar product, which is probably true.
Gee, you think?Īpparently, a big part of the push to get Warcraft 3: Reforged out the door was coming from Activision management. The files also recommend that Blizzard should resist the urge to ship games before they are done in the future. “We took pre-orders when we knew the game wasn’t ready yet,” they said. The leaked documents from an internal “postmortem” of the launch called out Blizzard’s decision to keep accepting pre-orders as the project unraveled. That, as it turns out, was part of the reason the project was so hobbled. There are a lot of parallels to the Cyberpunk 2077 fiasco, but this was a remake that was never expected to make a boatload of money. Fans started demanding refunds with such frequency that Blizzard started offering instant refunds. Warcraft 3: Reforged launched in January 2020, and it was clear out of the gate that so much of the promised content was missing - the updated cutscenes were nowhere to be seen, and Blizzard dropped its plans to record new dialog. According to a newly leaked document, Blizzard knew the game was a mess, but it released it anyway.Īccording to a report from Bloomberg, Warcraft 3 was doomed by mismanagement and financial pressure from Blizzard’s parent company, Activision. Fans were hyped, but the launch did not live up to expectations. Even with all that going for it, the game was looking old and busted when Blizzard announced a remastered version in 2018. It was also easy to mod and play online - the entire MOBA genre grew out of modded Warcraft 3. It was one of the first truly modern real-time strategy titles, and it made meaningful improvements over Warcraft 1 and 2. Warcraft 3 was hailed as a smashing success when it launched way back in 2002.
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