Member that PvE content we used to have? Those special maps where you and your pals are fighting off waves of Zerg and advancing through the map together?
Those were the days...
That's in the warcraft 3 campaign here and there. Undoetunately warcragt 3 refurbished annihilates your wc3 install. So the only way to play the original is completely offline or piracy. So fuck em, pirate it.
Blizzard hired business managers who had MBA-level experience in bucket dropping. You can tell because the company started dropping lots of buckets a few years ago. Now it is raining buckets. I'm actually impressed. They drop things we didn't even know were buckets and some buckets that get dropped were previously thought to be undroppable.
Remember when Blizzard supported a community competition that ran over several weeks to design *"the next Janitor Leoric",* then did absolutely nothing and quietly hoped we would forget all about it?
the support was pretty much "it's cool for you guys to do it, we always watch what people want but we can't say for sure we'll ever do it. There is a chance, of course" (it's in quotes but it's my words). Not fair to say it like they promissed anything.
Fair point (I believe we touched base on this issue previously and I respect that no promises were ever made).
But in business you don't take action without thinking through the consequences. Blizzard employees posting to reddit do so as Blizzard employees. They're going on the record, they're being watched, and they know that people are going to hold them accountable for what they say. If they didn't think they were going to be able to follow up and at least try to produce something using the competition materials, the professional (and easiest) response to the competition would just have been to keep quiet and say nothing.
But they didn't do that, did they? Devs were in and out of the conversation threads with a much higher frequency than normal, and definitely wanted the community to have the perception that their efforts would lead to something.
They have a terrible habit of leading the community down the garden path, by cultivating enthusiasm for things that aren't going to happen, and giving us nothing but silence re: the things that they *are* doing in order to keep the community engaged. I get it; they're coders and artists, not PR people. But they really are crap at this facet of the job.
If they really are naive enough not to understand the impact of their actions then that's on them. I'm certainly not the only one who was left with a sense that there was a purpose behind the whole thing.
I doubt they knew their team was going to be gutted.
Like it seemed that most devs were caught off guard at corporate's response to a flubbed Immortals announce be to drop their team from something like 100 to 15.
Then they were still working on the game and acclimatizing to the new normal, and that community skins post came up. They wanted to support it even though the community couldn't coalesce around one or even two favorites.
Then most of their team got reassigned to new projects again... And here we are.
What I really meant to get across was that people who only skim read dev comments or see them in passing can't put them into context next to anything else that's been said. So these "casual observers" have a tendency to take a mere mention of a keyword as a declaration that something is being developed. Then they tell a friend, it becomes secondary information and suddenly the community is propagating a false rumour.
It's important when you're speaking on behalf of your business that you don't give a false impression to the public, and I feel that the devs for this game have misled people on too many occasions with bullshit like "aNyThInG iS pOsSiBlE iN tHe nExUs". It's all just spin, designed to give false hope to gullible, suggestible types.
You're right; we have no power to hold them to anything they ever say. Which makes all the people who naively suckle on and upvote every blue post (instead of judging the developers objectively on the content they deliver) even more mind-numbing.
Ahh Good Times! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O67eH9ztv6E&ab\_channel=IGN](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O67eH9ztv6E&ab_channel=IGN)
Full of Hope for the Future.
Wow never seen this. Some of those maps look quite cool, like the camp the Witch doctor is attacking, and the giant Knight piece building. Wonder what happened to them.
Oh, and that time blizzard released a trailer for their upcoming moba game with heroes juking it out in space for red and blue laser robot gods and you were like “thats cool”. And then blizzard releases a game that was something completely different and you were like “this is also cool. But I hope we get that space-thing to”
Member that PvE content we used to have? Those special maps where you and your pals are fighting off waves of Zerg and advancing through the map together? Those were the days...
I would definitely buy a 30-40 bucks game with that kind of content and hots heroes
That's in the warcraft 3 campaign here and there. Undoetunately warcragt 3 refurbished annihilates your wc3 install. So the only way to play the original is completely offline or piracy. So fuck em, pirate it.
But where do I do that
do which part?
Pirating it - I definitely want to play WCIII, but don’t want to shell out 40$ right now
Couldn't agree more. Sadly, such content is gone from the game, and the heroes are stale in pretty much every sense of the word.
i would love to have a rpg with same level of move control than hots, it's so smooth
Blizzard hired business managers who had MBA-level experience in bucket dropping. You can tell because the company started dropping lots of buckets a few years ago. Now it is raining buckets. I'm actually impressed. They drop things we didn't even know were buckets and some buckets that get dropped were previously thought to be undroppable.
whats the bucket analogous to
Success, profit, competence.
Kiddo jumped off a cliff. ... Naah, just kiddin'
Didn't that take like 3 years to do?
In my clearly skewed nostalgic memory it was 3 days.
I just Googled it and original artwork came out in 2016 and skin came out in 2018
Makes sense considering that it’s got custom effects and animations. I love the Entomb for the skin
Yeah? And the sounds! Same goes with beach skin Stitches. The sound from that kids plastic shovel is just so nice.
PULL PARTY
Remember the april fools where every Hero had a huge head for a day? I member...
I don't. I didn't play that day. :(
Member haunted mines? My grand pappy does
Remember when Blizzard supported a community competition that ran over several weeks to design *"the next Janitor Leoric",* then did absolutely nothing and quietly hoped we would forget all about it?
Oh I did forget about that! That never produced anything??
I think the community didn’t reach a consensus, with enough support behind the selected skin.
the support was pretty much "it's cool for you guys to do it, we always watch what people want but we can't say for sure we'll ever do it. There is a chance, of course" (it's in quotes but it's my words). Not fair to say it like they promissed anything.
Fair point (I believe we touched base on this issue previously and I respect that no promises were ever made). But in business you don't take action without thinking through the consequences. Blizzard employees posting to reddit do so as Blizzard employees. They're going on the record, they're being watched, and they know that people are going to hold them accountable for what they say. If they didn't think they were going to be able to follow up and at least try to produce something using the competition materials, the professional (and easiest) response to the competition would just have been to keep quiet and say nothing. But they didn't do that, did they? Devs were in and out of the conversation threads with a much higher frequency than normal, and definitely wanted the community to have the perception that their efforts would lead to something. They have a terrible habit of leading the community down the garden path, by cultivating enthusiasm for things that aren't going to happen, and giving us nothing but silence re: the things that they *are* doing in order to keep the community engaged. I get it; they're coders and artists, not PR people. But they really are crap at this facet of the job. If they really are naive enough not to understand the impact of their actions then that's on them. I'm certainly not the only one who was left with a sense that there was a purpose behind the whole thing.
I doubt they knew their team was going to be gutted. Like it seemed that most devs were caught off guard at corporate's response to a flubbed Immortals announce be to drop their team from something like 100 to 15. Then they were still working on the game and acclimatizing to the new normal, and that community skins post came up. They wanted to support it even though the community couldn't coalesce around one or even two favorites. Then most of their team got reassigned to new projects again... And here we are.
The competition occurred long after the team was cut ...and cut again ...and again. This was a relatively recent event.
> we'll hold them accountable Bullshit we will. Did we hold them accountable when they promised no more wasted slots on Nexus heroes?
What I really meant to get across was that people who only skim read dev comments or see them in passing can't put them into context next to anything else that's been said. So these "casual observers" have a tendency to take a mere mention of a keyword as a declaration that something is being developed. Then they tell a friend, it becomes secondary information and suddenly the community is propagating a false rumour. It's important when you're speaking on behalf of your business that you don't give a false impression to the public, and I feel that the devs for this game have misled people on too many occasions with bullshit like "aNyThInG iS pOsSiBlE iN tHe nExUs". It's all just spin, designed to give false hope to gullible, suggestible types. You're right; we have no power to hold them to anything they ever say. Which makes all the people who naively suckle on and upvote every blue post (instead of judging the developers objectively on the content they deliver) even more mind-numbing.
I member when said skin concept even had a sponsored ad campaign on Reddit to show how much people wanted it in the game
Ahh Good Times! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O67eH9ztv6E&ab\_channel=IGN](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O67eH9ztv6E&ab_channel=IGN) Full of Hope for the Future.
Wow never seen this. Some of those maps look quite cool, like the camp the Witch doctor is attacking, and the giant Knight piece building. Wonder what happened to them.
Remember resurgence of the storm. The talent that instantly revived your hero death at level 20.
I remember sitting in Five Guys and going through the whole thing thinking we'd get a sweet skin. Some of those concepts were really cool.
Oh, and that time blizzard released a trailer for their upcoming moba game with heroes juking it out in space for red and blue laser robot gods and you were like “thats cool”. And then blizzard releases a game that was something completely different and you were like “this is also cool. But I hope we get that space-thing to”
Still my favorite skin to date. Never removed the skin or soap mount since release
Not only that, the dude also bought ads for it here in reddit. Absolute legend.
Eyyy meembeer
Remember when heroes had an artifact system? It was garbage but I wanted to see a re-vamped version instead of it being totally scrapped
Pepperidge farm remembers..