Real question: after WoW had been around for a year or so, were you still unhappy about it? I never played any of the Warcraft games before WoW and had never played any MMOs before Wow, so I had no feeling either way about the announcement. I started playing WoW because two of my close friends and two of my coworkers were playing a bunch, so it was a good way to have more gaming friends than just my one gaming friend. Were most WC3 players unhappy about the announcement? It's clear that millions of people ended up being pretty happy about it in the end.

[–] False@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

After WoW had been around for a year or so, were you still unhappy about it?

Nah, I enjoyed WoW well enough for what it is. When WoW was announced there was a lot of skepticism on whether or not a company that was primarily known for their RTS games could make an MMO, along with a decent amount of "Who asked for this". In hindsight I'm also a bit bitter that we never got and never will get Warcraft 4 though. To some degree Blizzard basically stopped developing games for a few years due to WoW's success consuming the company.

Were most WC3 players unhappy about the announcement?

I think most of them would have preferred another RTS game.

[–] MolochAlter@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not OP but yeah.

Still am, to a point, because thanks to WoW we never got Warcraft 4.

And arguably chasing the WoW demographic also made DND 4th edition suck balls but that may be just the old grognard in me.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Nah, my gaming group talked the same shit about 4e. We went back to 3.5 a bit and a ton of GURPS before the group disbanded.