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I've been waiting for Warcraft 4 for 15 years now (can't believe it's been that long!).

Warcraft III/Frozen throne are quite simply the best games that I've ever played, none have ever come close. I'd give honourable mention to Age of Empires/Rise of Nations.

I think it was killed due to the success of World of Warcraft.

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Same here. It has everything and more character than any other RTS ever made. The damn menu music puts me into Warcraft Meditation Mode. When playing on a CRT monitor the particle effect are "lickable". Major sense of accomplishment playing hard in single player too.

You're probably correct. Given the amount of mental energy you need to dump into a game to win against your opponent is high, albeit short lived. These bursts of cerebral fortitude can be exhausting and annoying if you are the loser (which there always will be one of).

Given that risk to reward I can totally see why more gentile games like MMOs, Minecraft, hell even MOBAs have taken over. They are a lot easier to slide into (and out) at every skill level, which also equates to more money to the developers due to a lowering of the bar.

My first RTS was the first RTS, Dune. Warcraft 3 is very late stage in the genre and I preferred Warcraft 2 far more. WC3 was a disappointment for me. The genre was mostly exhausted by that time. Today it's all about SC2 for a traditional experience but most people I know are playing League of Legends.

Warcraft III was the start of RTS genre downhill, all that micromanagement of heroes made it pseudo-rts, it was probably where Blizzard got it's WoW idea.

They are releasing a remaster of Warcraft 3, no?

I remember having fun with WC3 so I'll probably give it a try.

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