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    Would be foolish not to go patient on it after Reforged. After D2R, I’m not completely writing it off, though.

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    It’s not the Blizzard that used to make games we loved anymore. It’s just a name now, and behind that a corporation focused on maximum profit exclusively.

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    If you’re still asking that question, you aren’t paying attention. Overwatch 2, Diablo Immortal, Warcraft III: Reforged. Do you need 10 more years of shitty games to prove this to you?

    There is no such thing as Blizzard. They were bought out by Activision, which was bought out by Microsoft.

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        AFAIK it was done by Blizzard North, the same team that actually worked on D2 back then (when Blizzard was more like Blizzard). At least partly. Correct me if I’m wrong (I might easily be) but it is at least not a 100% match with regular Blizzard.

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          Developed by Vicarious Visions, a recent Activision Blizzard acquisition.

          And I thought it was an excellent product (although I stopped playing before they started making larger changes in patches).

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    I’ve long stopped caring about them, really. From what I’ve heard, the Diablo 2 remaster was pretty good, so it’s likely that Warcraft 2 might actually be a good remaster, too. It’s not like they’re promising a whole world of stuff like they did with Warcraft 3 Refunded.

    Me? I ain’t buying it. BRL buying power is shit 🇧🇷 🏴‍☠️

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      Broodwar remaster was also good. If they faithfully uprez the graphics, fix severe bugs, and do nothing else then there’s hope. The 2D remasters have a good track record so far.

      That said, had anyone played WC2 recently? It’s pretty rough. It’s fun for nostalgia sake and if you’re into the lore of Warcraft or the history of RTS, but it doesn’t hold up like Broodwar still does.

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      The most amazing part was the claim that the in-game soundtrack was reencoded as lossless audio.

      I looked at the new audio as a spectrograph and compared it to the original MP3s. Not only were they the same level of compression as the originals, they were the same exact graphs. The same files, renamed from .mp3 to .flac.

      That’s some proper gaslighting!

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        Well yeah - they recorded the MP3s as lossless audio, clearly

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    Blizzard is doing pretty damn good with retail WoW if you’re a casual player, and don’t play any PvP.

    Their games teams seem to be highly isolated from each other though, which is evidence by every other single game they currently maintain. Also that their employee’s bonuses are segmented by how well their teams game performs.

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    I still have a lot of old blizzard games on floppy and played wow for years. Based on their behavior and treatment of both their workers and communities, they’ll not see a cent from me again until they prove themselves in the long-term. I don’t pirate so also no unofficial numbers from me, either