Several sources pin the blame on leadership in both the Reforged team, and within the wider Blizzard organisation. Many players have also lost trust, and the launch certainly didn't help an already rough year for Blizzard's image.'

Many have lost trust in the team and this company. The problems on the project reportedly caused low morale, with the internal postmortem reading: “We have developers who have dealt with exhaustion, anxiety, depression and more for a year now. Altered scripts and re-recordings of dialogue were allegedly also ditched. The report says that the game was then rescoped, leading to it launching without features present in the original Warcraft 3, and without reworked cutscenes announced before launch. The project was allegedly hamstrung by a low budget, and was apparently seen as a low priority by parent company Activision because of its unlikeliness to become a 'billion-dollar product'. In a new report from Bloomberg, sources claim that Blizzard chose to release Reforged – which launched to widespread fan complaints about low quality and false advertising – because it had already accepted pre-orders, and didn't want to risk those sales by delaying.īloomberg also reports that it has seen an internal Blizzard postmortem document saying, 'We took pre-orders when we knew the game wasn't ready yet' and that the company should, in future, 'resist the urge to ship an unfinished product because of financial pressure.' Blizzard reportedly took pre-orders and refused to delay Warcraft 3: Reforged, despite knowing that the game wouldn't be sufficiently ready for release.

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