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LinkI for one am a very disappointed customer of Blizzard entertainment. For dozens of years, they have left WC3 players to themselves, without any updates, without any 'real' customer support, without any consideration for us. The War III community has had to bring the 21st century to Warcraft III on their own, notably with host bots, ELO, stats tracking, games list, communities, private hosting (many were unable on their own), multiple handy commands, etc. Competitive gaming environment were also a direct result of stats tracking and community regroupment with higher ELO bots, leagues, etc. Let's not forget @ENT Staff and other communities' staff who have helped to maintain our games free of ruiners, trolls, etc. Te list of things that the host bots bring to the community goes on and on. As of late, Blizzard has decided to get involved again in WCIII, pushing an agenda we still have no idea about. Some of their updates were good (24-players slots, more balanced units, faster replay speed, etc.) However, they have recently decided to get rid of host bots for no specific reason. In association with other Wc3 communities, we have engaged with blizzard in an attempt to change their minds about bots. At this point, multiple thousands of customers had signed a petition asking blizzard not to remove bots. Dozens and dozens of users had been posting on blizzard forums in uproar. Blizzard did not care, they went on with their plan. We asked them to integrate the necessary features of host-bots into Wc3 itself.; They added !kick and !ban to manage the Public Relations aspect. When we asked them to delay the removal of host-bots until most features had been implemented, they simply refused to answer.In order to keep Warcraft III community alive and with the same gaming standards players had been used to for years, ENT has spent many hours developing and promoting WC3Connect (https://entgaming.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=135760). However, today around midnight, Blizzard, in a direct attack to its playerbase (albeit possibly faithful to their longstanding incompetence), has decided to ban all of ENT's host-bots. While we are at a late stage and communication is unlikely to be a possibility, I believe Blizzard still has to answer for its actions and be accountable to its customers. While we all know that Blizzard does not give a single shit about the input on their website ( https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/12790218/ ), direct messaging is slightly harder to ignore.For those of you who wish to demand answers, feel free to contact the lead developer who has been pushing for the removal of bots.
LinkSame engine as classic WC3, current engine upgraded (confirmed),On Battle.Net Launcher (confirmed),Crossplay between Reforged and Classic (confirmed),In options, you can choose to play with old graphics (confirmed),Classic mods compatible on Reforged (confirmed),Reforged includes ROC & TFT campaigns (confirmed),Ingame footage : http://puu.sh/BVeXM/ea8d0219cb.jpg,Ingame footage : http://puu.sh/BVf3F/e0898d817d.jpg,"Skins" and cosmetics, Paladin can be either Arthas, Uther, Arthas /w Frostmourne... (confirmed)Released in 2019 (confirmed),Founding of Durotar "revamp" (confirmed) and probably more (not confirmed),New editor can import old maps (confirmed),Old map will load HD models (confirmed),Animated trees (confirmed and seen),Frozen Throne getting remastered as well (confirmed),Audio will be upgraded, in every language Classic had and even more (re-recording with the same old actors) (confirmed),Old audio will still be in the game (confirmed),Achievements system (confirmed),New editor will be an improved version of the current editor (confirmed),Melee gameplay mostly unaffected (confirmed),New races ("Can't comment."),Balancing will continue to happen post-Reforged (confirmed),System requirement can't be said yet, due to the game still being in dev. (confirmed),Ingame cinematic-mode footage : http://puu.sh/BVgiY/af1c94eccd.jpg,Ingame cinematic-mode footage : http://puu.sh/BVgkd/0b359fd72b.jpg,No subtitle / textbox in cinematic-mode ?Game runs at 30-40 fps, unoptimized and streamed from a laptop,Inventory size being looked at (more than 6) (confirmed).Heal confusion from "old" questline, ex: reworked Arthas Vs Illidan fight.Modding tools used to make the new models will be given to the community.
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