(Image credit: Blizzard) The reality: Warcraft 3: Reforged shipped with much more conservative changes that were labeled a 'downgrade' That's our first mission, to make sure that you guys give us a thumbs up when it ships.'īlizzard also showed off the new hero models, talked about making changes to maps, and how Reforged would coexist with the original within the same client. But in so doing, we need to make sure that you guys who are in this room, that core audience that's never left this game and love it to death, and don't want to see us change it so drastically that you don't recognize it anymore. Producer Pete Stilwell: 'It's incredibly important to us to first get it right for the existing community, and then we want to do things to appeal to more people. Looking back at the campaign now, we want the locations that you remember or know from World of Warcraft to match what you see in Reforged, and we want to go through some of the stories and tie the two franchises together in a tighter way.'
Lead designer Matt Morris: 'One of the things we want to do with our campaign is level it up to what people know from World of Warcraft.