Reforged will become good, given enough time. The potential is here, it's just unfinished. The problem is not the devs, but most probably their number.
You can't reforge Warcraft 3 engine if you are 3 people working on crunch all year long. At least, not in the timeframe "they set for themselves" (in truth their bosses set for them).
I think it's better to blame the leaders than the workers, expecially in this case. There is for sure a lot of psychological stress in working hard to do something beyond your capabilities (time, money, number of workers, etc...) and be insulted by everyone for doing it.
No it wont, its was illconceived from the very start seeing how it was executed. If it were done as it shouldve been - as a faithful remaster that doesnt take away anything and just polishes out the original with some minor changes and most of what's important done in the code so we are spared of issues that we actually have problems with.
If you ignore the fact that they just shattered the community to pieces with people either quitting Wc3 altogether forever or going to private 1.26 servers like Eurobattle.net and whole Unforged side of things, ON TOP of loss of almost all newcomers due to Refunds and their lies, and damage done to original game.
It shouldve been like SC:R but better, in a sense where they really focus on fixing actual problems we have, including ones they created in last patches like random Desynchronization drops of players in maps. Visually and functionality wise it should be nearly indentical just like SC:R, with HD models being like War3HD from Starcraft II done by DragonFly studios, keeping really good balance between simplicity and fidelity - Just like original wc3 and all assets we made for it.
Them trying to make it into new game while butchering and taking away the original was literarily the worst way to do it next just to outright shutdown of Wc3. It ruined everything community was doing for the game, game itself and replaced it with inferior garbage as official default.
True remasters of music, films or games should present what's there at its absolute best, not to mangle it with idiotic reimaginings done with complete lack of care and understanding of the original - which i can only speculate is due to success of Doom 2016 and Resident Evil 2 REmake, both of which are done with love, care and understanding of core design and what worked in original game, and most important of all - are totally separate games that dont replace the original prohibiting you from playing it. Wc3's lifeblood are its customs and melee and they took it away even if you have archived older version.
Plus excusing it with "There are private servers on 1.26" or any other bs is not right, because its not official and unified spot for entiriety of the community but small shard of it that broke off. If they done it right, announced it as a remaster and done it like one and really and trully cared. We would see tousands of people playing together enjoying Warcraft III in its true and remastered form unified community around it.
In one place, with visuals on existing maps not being broken and both HD and SD mode being really close in artstyle and same with animations and general look so everything works nicely with existing assets and is consistent with then and original vision for the game Samwise Didier had, and for a reason. It would be viable for melee pro players, and it wouldnt cause any other problems.
