Poll of the Day > where's warcraft 4

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warcraft 3 was like 2001

Its called World of Warcraft.

papercup posted...

Its called World of Warcraft.

Pretty much. Whatever story they would have told with a Warcraft 4 (or 5 or 6 or 7 or...), they've told through WoW. Warcraft lore is now developed by WoW, not by Warcraft games. Game-wise, RTSs are harder to collect recurrent monetization from than Overwatch, Diablo, and WoW, so there isn't much incentive for them to keep even one of Starcraft and Warcraft going, let alone the less popular of the two.

In practice, they'd end up releasing a remake of the game a decade or two later that retroactively broke the original, so it's probably for the best.

papercup posted...

Its called World of Warcraft.

don't see no 4

ConfusedTorchic posted...

don't see no 4

If you slur over the second W without pronouncing it properly it kind of sounds like the word "four" is in there.

world of arcraft

World o' Fourcraft

that's just silly

stormgate (wc3/sc2 devs) free access is tomorrow but apparently it's sorta meh right now

Once Microsoft has a better understanding of the development team and the state of the game (WC3), they might pivot to creating a new RTS. But considering that WC3 is in disarray at the moment, I doubt they would launch another RTS. SC2 started promisingly but the end release was a letdown for many, and its competitive scene is very much scaled down. It would take a lot of comittment from Microsoft if they wanted to create WC4, spanning years and years. WC3 does have a professional scene and dedicated casters who keep the game alive, but they are moreso content on what they have rather than wanting a competely new RTS. RTS in general is a hard sell for many gamers, I would argue that the learning curve is just too demanding. I think one glimmer of hope is the China scene. WC3 was very popular in China, and if Microsoft is interested in that market, there is a possibility of a new WC game.

Actually, taking into account the fact that Microsoft owns ABK now, that's even more incentive to not make another Blizzard RTS. They've been remaking AoE and AoM, and releasing a Blizzard RTS would just end up competing directly with those remakes and any future games they want to try making in those series. On the flip side, owning WC and SC means they don't necessarily need to do something with AoE/AoM to capture the interest of RTS fans, since they can access that pie themselves with Blizzard's IPs, but either way they're going to be competing with themselves.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

warcraft 3 was like 2001

Actually (snorts) it is 2002. Warcraft 3 is the bees knees though

adjl posted...

Actually, taking into account the fact that Microsoft owns ABK now, that's even more incentive to not make another Blizzard RTS. They've been remaking AoE and AoM, and releasing a Blizzard RTS would just end up competing directly with those remakes and any future games they want to try making in those series. On the flip side, owning WC and SC means they don't necessarily need to do something with AoE/AoM to capture the interest of RTS fans, since they can access that pie themselves with Blizzard's IPs, but either way they're going to be competing with themselves.

Sarah Bond talked about StarCraft. StarCraft is more likely to get an rts resurrection because its huge in asia

Numbered sequels not getting released isn't really all that uncommon or surprising.

Now if they pull a Leisure Suit Larry and skip directly from 3 to 5 without ever releasing 4, then you've got a complaint.

update: Stormgate kinda sux right now in its early access state

it's aight but its campaign is blatantly trying to be a reshade of WC3 (we already have Arthas and Uther expies), gameplay feels oddly sluggish, there are SIGNIFICANT technical problems (there is no 2v2 or 3v3 because we see in coop the game crashes after a point if too much is happening), there's big monetization problems due to miscommunication (people who spend hundreds on the biggest backer tier don't have coop heroes available on day 1), there's no out-of-game chat whatsoever despite promising to be "the first truly social RTS", there's an extremely limited number of maps available, absolutely noone likes the art direction that they've stuck with for the past year or so, and also balance sux now

3v3 coop is great when it doesn't break, camps are back, and their take on the protoss-equivalent is neat (it's not just guarding expensive spellcasters, they have a semi-universal build range and relays for it can be turned into turrets), but MAN, I feel bad for early adopters. this game is going to be great if it can sustain the funds for another like 2 years of development. it's just really paling when compared to even release SC2

it's free (for a bit of campaign, can try every coop hero up to level 5 which will take probably 5~ hours, and all 1v1 ladder/customs) tho

agesboy posted...

Uther expies

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QD1lzyAZaoI/maxresdefault.jpg

to clarify visually, but he's also like this narratively to an extent

the first mission is like that one mission where arthas is killing infected villagers, but it's worse because the arthas-expy just wants to shoot people

and also it just fucking sucks to play because you have zero abilities, just 2-7 guys