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Hey guys,
We're happy to wish you all holiday greetings and a happy new year! The time has come for us to write something nice and feel-good about the ending of the year.
This year has been a very interesting one, for both the site and the Warcraft 3 community. Here is a summary of the highlights that happened during the past year:
- Blizzard started working on Warcraft 3 again:
- Members Kam and PurgeandFire have visited Blizzard headquarters back in March regarding the Future of WC3.
- Multiple Hive staff members have been in direct contact with Blizzard’s classic game team since.
- Blizzard put up more and more classic game job listings.
- Added the new Patch Discussion sub-forum.
- Patch 1.27b raised the 8mb multiplayer limit to 128mb.
- MindWorX, the official maintainer of JNGP, started working on JNGP for the updated versions of WC3 while in contact with Blizzard.
- Members Kam and PurgeandFire have visited Blizzard headquarters back in March regarding the Future of WC3.
- The long awaited Hive 2 was released and updated rapidly throughout the year.
- Partnerships and collaborations with multiple dedicated WC3 communities, persons, and websites:
- Our newest affiliate, Back2Warcraft, live-casted the biggest WC3 tournaments in the world and supported The Hive.
- Map hosting and arranged gaming became more accessible by collaboration with MakeMeHost and ENT.
- Showcased custom map inspired games such as Legion TD 2 and Element TD mobile.
- Our newest affiliate, Back2Warcraft, live-casted the biggest WC3 tournaments in the world and supported The Hive.
- Added a new community live-streaming feature, with over 50 unique Twitch channels participating.
- Revived our Twitter, created our official Facebook page, and launched our YouTube channel.
- Made our first Hive Hoodie & T-Shirt merchandise.
- Hosted two new projects, World Domination and Warden, while current projects managed to keep pumping out great updates.
- Introduced resource reviewers to help out the resource moderation.
- The Art and Graphic Design section has been revitalized with amazing artwork and useful threads.
- Abelhawk created an amazing WC3 campaign easter egg series and interviewed campaign designer David Fried.
- Completed a total of 20 contests in The Arena, the most since 2011.
- Continuation of the community providing thousands of newly released resources, many with fantastic quality and creativity. Highest rated resources that were released in 2016:
- n00b's Monter2 was the best rated multiplayer map.
- Rufus' Warden was the best rated singleplayer campaign.
- Tauer's Anduin Lothar was the best rated model.
- Blood Raven's Soul Harvester Scythe was the best rated attachment.
- Heinvers' Fel Lord was the best rated skin.
- Sin'dorei300's Mirjana was the best rated icon.
- KILLCIDE's Arcane Bomb was the best rated spell.
- Flux's Dummy Recycler was the best rated system.
- Quilnez's Warcraft 3 Shell Extension Register was the best rated tool.
Keep on the lookout for current maps expanding past 8mb, and new maps being created to use the limit raise to its full potential. The hosted project Gaias Retaliation has even been ready for a while with their awesome 50 mb version.
Bring on 2017!
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