About Warcraft 4

[T. D. W.]

This idea is in my mind for a long time...
Warcraft 3 has been here for too long....
What about the next version? 4?
What will happen to the main version (3 TFT)
Mainly, what will happen to

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[trolman]

warcraft 4 wont come in time to save the hive, its dying,deal with it

 

[T. D. W.]

You miss understood, if wrc4 came
All the maps/models/icons (resources)
What will happen to them if they are not compatible ...
If yes, then the hive will die yes

 

[Rui]

More fitting for Site Discussion perhaps?

Frankly, I too think it's too early to tell. Neither StarCraft II nor Diablo III have all their expansions out yet, so WarCraft 4, if it ever happens, is still roughly 10 years away.

 

[T. D. W.]

O.......ki..
BUT, we're discussing here IF wrc 4 comes, what may happen to THW

 

[trolman]

Starcraft 2 is fresh out of the oven but there are about 30 resources total, how does that sound for the community?

 

[T. D. W.]

Bad? I think...
I never played something from blizzard other than wrc and a bit of wow

 

[Rui]

The resources will probably stay for people that keep modding wc3. If I had a say, I'd say give a selective cleanup to all the deleted and rejected resources to free up server space, but Ralle likes archives and records so =P

Icons don't take up that much space, so it's not a problem. Neither do most artistic resources, maps are what would clean up most server space.

 

[T. D. W.]

Oh so this will be like a renew for the hive or something like that
And yes the maps take most space
With over 250 pages of approved maps and an impressive 400 pages for the rejected ones

 

[trolman]

Waaait...is there a way you can download rejected maps?

 

[T. D. W.]

No, even when a map is rejected, the download link gets corrupted somehow, the only way is that the creator creates a pastebin or anything like it and provide the link to you, if you want to know how did i know for the 400 pages, orcnet told me

 

[Magtheridon96]

Spells section has 43 pages of approved spells and 195 pages of needs-fixed/deleted/rejected ones.

Anyway, if Warcraft IV were to come out, the most obvious move is to adapt to it and start supporting it early on. We shouldn't do the mistake we did with SCII

 

[T. D. W.]

If you want to adabt.... Start fast, i saw on a site where a worker from blizzard was talking about wrc 4 and he said the following;
Blizzard will make the wrc 4 after the next version of wow (the mist of pandaria) and then go back to work on wow, so basically the next thing which will come out from blizzard will be wrc4

 

[Magtheridon96]

[Citation Needed]

 

[takakenji]

how many more of these threads are we going to have

 

[T. D. W.]

link to the citation

@takakenji
Don't know my first one

 

[Magtheridon96]

It's not a very reliable source to be honest.

 

[T. D. W.]

Yeah maybe, but logical, how much time is wrc3 running till now? Don't you think it is possible that blizzard wants to renew, now that it has updated wow

 

[GreeN!X]

Well, if they do make Wc4, I hope they make us some better lores than WoW.

 

[_lycan]

More fitting for Site Discussion perhaps?

Frankly, I too think it's too early to tell. Neither StarCraft II nor Diablo III have all their expansions out yet, so WarCraft 4, if it ever happens, is still roughly 10 years away.

I don't think it's 10 years away, first sc2 just needs 1 expansion before it has all exp packs out.

Also: Sc2 took 10 years in development (counting since sc1 got released) because they had to remake the engine like 2 times.

Right now sc2 is very computer consuming, so i doubt blizzard would use an engine more powerful than the one in sc2, i actually think they'll use the same engine but customized to fit wc3 and the editor will be a customized one with integrated GUI (final version of the editor).

Also it's very probable that they also allow more than 256 in map size since if it uses the same engine the computers in 5 years will be able to easily manage a 512x512 (like daow) map.

 

[Dr Super Good]

If they make a Warcraft IV then it is highly likely all Warcraft III resources will not work in it without porting.

 

[Avex]

Starcraft 2 is fresh out of the oven but there are about 30 resources total, how does that sound for the community?

That's because the Editor was (and still is very) confusing to most people while as the WarCraft 3 editor was rather easy to pick up at least in terms of making custom units, while Triggering in both SC2 and Wc3 took time. If Blizzard didn't drop their ball and break glass telling people to learn it themselves without Blizzard help (until much much later) then SC2's modding community would be much better.

Not to mention SC2mapster kind of took reigns for modding.

 

[T. D. W.]

So... IF warcraft 4 comes out, most of the resources on the hive will be useless (omg)

 

[trolman]

Well its pritty obvious, you cant play starcraft 1 maps in starcraft 2

 

[sonofjay]

So... IF warcraft 4 comes out, most of the resources on the hive will be useless (omg)

Didn't take you so long to realize.

 

[Lordkoon]

oh... it's THAT topic again. Warcraft lore is torn and wore out like a 10 year old stinky sock... I would really prefer to see the so called Titan to be a fresh RTS on which to work in the future mapmaking communities.

 

[Grey Nightmare]

Titan is an MMO, I'm pretty sure they've stated as much?
As for Warcraft IV, I'd be very surprised if we don't hear about it in the next five years.

 

[T. D. W.]

Mmmmmm, hope this wrc4 won't come

 

[takakenji]

hope no more wc4 threads will come

 

[T. D. W.]

hope no more wc4 threads will come

) (-
maybe

 

[Rui]

The topic wasn't about wc4 lore, else I'd have pointed the OP to the Wc4 thread I compiled last year. It's about Hive and an hypothetical future reception of wc4, thus why I said it's more fitting for Site Discussion. Seeing what happened with SC2, I am unsure if we can say it's too early.
Blizzard is juicing a lot of games at the moment and SC2:LotV, Diablo III expansions and this Titan MMO are in development. If they actually announce a wc4 in the meantime, it'll take them time to develop too, hence why I'm nearly certain less than 10 years is being too optimistic.

 

[T. D. W.]

Great then <-)

 

[mckill2009]

I hope when WC4 comes, the WC3 maps can still be used coz too many sacrifices already have taken place...

 

[T. D. W.]

I hope when WC4 comes, the WC3 maps can still be used coz too many sacrifices already have taken place...

100% it's for now 2 years and a half i am working on a single map, so seeing it ruined in one sec

 

[trolman]

thats...pritty impossible

 

[T. D. W.]

thats...pritty impossible

Sadly...

 

[DESTROYER123]

I pray for Wc4.
I think it will look like Dota 2's grafics or something similar.

 

[T. D. W.]

This will look indead cool, but still.. Loosing all the hard work on the hive is priceless

 

[Avex]

I pray for Wc4.
I think it will look like Dota 2's grafics or something similar.

Bleh, I don't like that look, I want things to have a more dark cartoony look than a light one. What happened to WarCraft being dark before WoW came along :/

 

[Stiltskin]

I don't think Blizzard's going to ever make warcraft 4. Forgive me, but it's stupid to say THW will die because of warcraft 4. Its death is unevitable unless it expands on SC2, because, let's face it, WC3 is an old game, soon noone will play it; as it's being replaced by other games. Even WC3 DotA is getting replaced (HoN, LoL, DOTA 2). All we have to do is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us.

 

[gorillabull]

DOTCA i keep confusing you with that other guy that is making DOTU lol

 

[Statharas]

No, even when a map is rejected, the download link gets corrupted somehow, the only way is that the creator creates a pastebin or anything like it and provide the link to you, if you want to know how did i know for the 400 pages, orcnet told me

When a map is rejected, the file becomes unavailable and the "thread" becomes mod/author only. Correct me if I am mistaken.

You might be thinking of Deleted maps.

 

[T. D. W.]

When a map is rejected, the file becomes unavailable and the "thread" becomes mod/author only. Correct me if I am mistaken.

You might be thinking of Deleted maps.

You are right, but i am thinking of the rejected not the deleted

@gorillabull
What?!??

 

[Orcnet]

I pray for Wc4.
I think it will look like Dota 2's grafics or something similar.

No I hope it won't end up like that, by a couple of years Dota 2's graphics will look low on some viewers. it takes years for the improvement of good graphics and control visualizations so 'if' Warcraft IV will really take place, we'll obviously see new stuff.

 

[Wazzz]

also a new race
following the theme of kung-fu pandas and dapper wolfmen, i'm going to hazard a guess that the next race will be inspired via a heavy overdose of hallucinogenics

 

[DivineLight]

also a new race
following the theme of kung-fu pandas and dapper wolfmen

WOW

WCIV is born WCIII is dead!..
I hope that won't happen, Much my friends doesn't like WC3.. they're more interested to another Game Online.. they look WC3 like some disgusting thing and let it be.. Mybe WC3 is an old game but think to try it first..
I will cry if WC3 is dead! T.T

 

[Sapi]

if only blizzard release wc4, what kind of thing that gonna be happen to this site?
is this site become wc4 modding site?

 

[DivineLight]

I hope this site won't be dead as well

 

[GreeN!X]

Well, I think hive would have a new forum for WC4 if it would actually happen.

 

[DivineLight]

and we have to learn from the start again, if the coding is different