It's been a long wait for missing from the BlizzCon 2021 lineup, causing much speculation about its future. Now in a response to a fan on Twitter, Blizzard president Mike Ybarra says we can expect to hear from the Warcraft III: Reforged team "in June."
We did get a brief fantasy game's disappointing re-release and subsequent drought of communication that they're even sceptical of this announcement.
Community site Back2Warcraft responded to Ybarra's tweet with a simple question from their s: "June 2022?" The response on the Warcraft III subreddit has been similarly downbeat, with the most upvoted post joking that the update will simply read, "We are now removing Warcraft Reforged from the Battle.net app."
Other comments reflect the community's negative feelings towards the game, which still sits at an astonishing 0.6/10 average score on Metacritic after over 30,000 ratings. Another twitter response reads, "Respectfully, the bar is on the floor with how you guys have treated Warcraft 3."
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As Reddit commenter DivinesiaTV says, "At this point, actions speak louder than words. Every promise is just empty words." The burden falls to the Warcraft III: Reforged team to show what they're doing to make things right for a community that clearly still feels very let down by this beloved RTS game's disappointing remake.
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