Jesus, dude.
If your nightmare is a game not living up to expectations you might need a wakeup call.
It's not so much that I had expectations for Reforged, but that I feel Reforged was mostly a downgrade over classic. And I wouldn't care that much about that if there was some kind of parallel version that recieved the relevant updates (melee balance, editor additions and enhancements) but otherwise remained the same. But not only is that not the case, they have made it very hard to acquire pre-reforged post blizzard launcher patches that contain very important updates such as widescreen, 24 players and colors, and pertinent editor stuff. This has all resulted in a fractured community. And the reaction to Reforged means that Wc3 didn't see a resurgence either, and has probably only bled active players and map makers.
But yes, I understand it's just a game. It's not a crime to be over dramatic is it? Lol.
The world editor was never meant to be powerful, it never was and it never will be.
It's limiting - obviously.
If you want to create stuff without limits, work with a proper game engine. Not a freaking world editor of an old game.
Eh, I disagree. I think the WE is considered plenty powerful for it's time. And lots of people like and have used it for 15+ years, during which time it's been improved and added upon.
I never said that I want no limits, there's always game engines like you mentioned for that. But is it so wrong to have a pie in the sky dream? I don't see a reason WE can't be continually improved regardless of what it is (this also means making it even easier to use, which makes sense since it's supposed to be a user friendly accessible (with hidden depth for those who can make use of it) program for making maps.)
Also, if I'm specifically talking about Wc3, and just my own thoughts on what it could be, you can't replace or replicate that with a different game engine. Blizzard owns the IP and base code of the game. So concerning Wc3 we are all at their mercy.
Also also, if we did run into certain hard limits of the engine and software, well, what an opportunity Reforged could have been to rebuild the engine and software for modern technology!
But yes, the above is incredibly unrealistic and improbable. I'm mostly just bitter about reforged, and how they forced everyones desktop icons who didn't buy it to auto patch and download everything anyways back at launch, unless you knew how to circumvent it by comment/post hunting through reddit and here.