Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos

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¶¶ ¶¶ so ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¦ ¦ ¦ This is where I want to talk about how different Forsaken Kingdom feels, because it isn't Reign of Chaos, and it isn't the Frozen Throne either.

Those campaigns were about kings and princes and whole armies colliding across the map, and the team behind this one has said outright that it's not a story about grand heroes.

It's smaller and more personal.

I worked mostly on our RTS games.

So I worked on Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos and the expansion.

I worked on Starcraft 2 and expansions.

And then I also worked on Heroes of the Storm as well.

World of Warcraft, launched in 2004.

First of all, it's got a pre-established player base from the Warcraft franchise, Warcraft III, Reign of Chaos, and the Frozen Thrones, some of the most successful video games of all time.

You have a pre-established player base.

Then the internet infrastructure itself is actually adapting to facilitate this.

You know, I w- I argue go all the way back.

Do, do Warcraft, Warcraft II, and Warcraft III as your first three seasons.

Yeah.

Set up the story.

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Warcraft II and Warcraft III.

We had, like...

We had no internet upstairs, so, like, we just, like-

I wanted to ask you about some things.

Blizzard, owned by Microsoft, made some new releases, some new updates for Warcraft 3, StarCraft, all of its games, including Heroes of the Storm.

It's a free game.

Download it, try it out so that if you like it, we can play as a fucking unit.

And something that I think, like, might, like, uh, as just to put a bow on things is, is that people might not understand how impactful mods can actually potentially be.

Uh, and something that I think illustrates the importance of them, uh, is that Counter-Strike was a Half-Life mod, and Dota was a Warcraft III mod.

DayZ was an ARMA mod, right? These, there's, there's, there's...

Uh, Black Mesa was, you know, is now, like, the, the, the golden standard for almost, like, a, a Half-Life remake, right? So it's important to, like, really realize that, like, there's, there's so much significance to, to modding.

Wow.

It's like a 16 year old where like socializing with people and having a sense of this world where there was just so many places I could go and I didn't know anything about the world, but I knew that I liked it because of playing Warcraft 2, Warcraft 3, learning about these characters, playing through the campaigns, following their stories, and just like...

I remember seeing like the commercials for world of Warcraft and be like, man, I wish they would have made a Warcraft four.

Like, I don't want to play an MMO.

[laughs] Next to my desk, I have this giant T-Rex head that we have a little tarp underneath.

Um, but I think the one I'm most excited for is similar to why you mentioned, um, like, w- when we made Barrow Deeps, which is the one I'm really thrilled for people to see, is we went to look at Warcraft III a lot.

Mitchell, you want to maybe pull up a little Barrow Deeps for us?

Ooh.

Somebody, somebody might get mad at me for this later, but continue.

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Players who have played the Barrow Deeps missions in Warcraft III will recognize a lot of these places.

Brothers in blood, right?