It's as if Microsoft wants to pay social media, and the system through which all our minds are for sale, to make me excited about their remasters of these titles.
And instead, the part of my brain that is supposed to be manipulated... is instead shutting down and operating in reverse. I have to resist the urge to use all of my accounts and logins to post "I hate Microsoft" everywhere, or something.
I don't have the best amount of self-introspection, but I think it might be related to Reforged. For me, I have at times been really passionate about my Warcraft III modding projects and about creating something really cool and fun.
And yet, that same passion for me is eye-opening. It made Reforged hurt when the point of Reforged was that I was supposed to just love it and open my wallet. And the reason it hurt, maybe most of all, was to realize that I wasn't playing Warcraft 3 because it was the best game on Earth, nor because I was particularly good at playing it. The reason that I enjoyed Warcraft III was that when I play a video game and I choose to do something escapist like that anyway, in my escape I want to have the illusion of control. I want to pretend that I AM THE ONE who tells the computer what to do.
This is, of course, a very World-Editor-centric way to enjoy the game.
But, Reforged, above everything else, asserted that Activision are the ones who are in control. By selling themselves to Microsoft, Microsoft has inherited that position. They have inherited the circumstance of being the people who remove my enjoyment just by announcing their existence.
So, as I start to figure that out, if anybody has ever used Retera Model Studio on Reforged and thought, huh, you know, this is a good program, this really works. And then if they see me clearly lose my mind on some forum and post something that is perhaps against Reforged, against whatever Microsoft is about to do with Warcraft RTS, and ultimately even against the 2003 Frozen Throne game itself, when I do that, maybe you will think that doesn't fit the character of someone who dedicated so much time to building a 3D graphics program that is so solid and actually works. And if that's confusing and turns you away from Warcraft Reforged in some way, I apologize, and I hope that doesn't do that for you and you make your own choices.
But, I might go change my Hive signature to "I hate Microsoft because I can" sometime soon, we'll see.
These feelings I'm describing... is this what it truly means to be REFORGED?
