[Reason077]

Update: In fairness to Blizzard, I did just check this again and it seems like they have started maintaining Warcraft 3 Reforged again, releasing some small patches last year and a significant update in January 2023:

https://news.blizzard.com/en-gb/warcraft3/23896791/warcraft-...

I'll have to take another look now that this has been released.

But still, there was a 2 year stretch between 2020 and 2022 when the game was in a very crappy state and absolutely nothing was done to improve it or address the issues.

[vultour]

Blizzard also pulled the original W3 downloads and switched everyone to a non-hd version of Reforged. I'm still mad about that because I paid for both and I'm no longer able to get one of them.

[LeoNatan25]

But isn’t Reforged using the same engine as the original, with higher res assets (mostly textures)? At least, I thought so, as that was part of the criticism of Reforged.

[Reason077]

Nothing wrong with that, necessarily. In fact, I’d argue that’s exactly what I would want out of an ideal War3 reforged. Exactly the same game modernised for modern systems, with the “same” graphics just at higher resolution and detail.

Besides, World of Warcraft, StarCraft 2, and Heroes of the Storm were all built using upgraded versions of the Warcraft 3 engine, so it’s proven to be quite capable. It’s logical to use an updated version of the engine for an updated version of the same game.

Trying who port the game to an entirely different engine would not only be much more effort, it would risk introducing subtle differences in gameplay and feel that could mean it doesn’t play quite the same any more.

[vultour]

I haven't played it for a while now, but one of the major complaints after release was that many of the old custom maps didn't work.