Warcraft III Reforged

[Crevax]

This could be an exciting revival for custom maps. I plan on buying the game when it is released. Anybody else thinking of jumping back in?

[Rising_Dusk]

I probably won't get involved in this because I still really don't like Blizzard as a company... also remaking all of my maps sounds like a ton of work haha.

[Fledermaus]

Old maps should still be playable. There will just be SD or HD only maps, no mixing and matching for obvious reasons.
Plus they've already been improving the editor with new natives and jasshelper built in. More to come in that space too :)

So in theory you'd just need to get new art assets to make it HD :p

[assassingao]

Old maps are playable, but I heard that some maps made with JASS are made unplayable by the patch.

[Rising_Dusk]

Well, if folks like AR are still floating around for art assets I wouldn't mind doing an HD version of my maps, but if it requires owning WC3 Reforged then that might be a problem. I'll keep my options open I suppose.

[AnemicRoyalty]

Sooo... about the current state of Reforged ;P

That section of the EULA regarding Blizzard owning your WC3:R custom maps (and the stories, art and characters therein) looks problematic and the first thing I thought of was Dusk and DoE/AotZ

I get that they don't want another DOTA2 incident but it really sucks for people who have an original IP that they've brought to life in WC3 :<

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