The national server Blizzard game was stopped on the last day, and countless players were affected in China, as a Blizzard family bucket user, in fact, almost every Blizzard game has its own feelings, and it is more or less poured into it.
In the lineup of Blizzard games, to ask which is the most special game, it itself can not even be described as a simple game, that is, the "Warcraft" series.
Why is Warcraft so special? Looking back on my own Blizzard gaming career for more than a decade, I really didn't know where to start for a while. Friends with a certain age must have been on some flash game websites when they were young, and for us at that time, large-scale terminal games were often far less attractive than the diversified games of 4399. In fact, at that time, "Warcraft" had already launched an epoch-making product that was not much ahead of Flash - Warcraft Map Editor.
"Warcraft" itself is a classic RTS game, and the IPs such as WOW and Hearthstone behind Blizzard are all derived from "Warcraft". It is already scary to raise so many world-famous IPs, and Warcraft's map editor has influenced the entire game industry.
Simply put, the Warcraft map editor is the one that allows you to make your own games within the framework of Warcraft. At a very young age, I played a lot of maps uploaded by excellent domestic and foreign game authors, and there are many classics among them. For example, "Chenghai 3C", which I played as a child, can be called the originator of MOBA games, but it can control multiple heroes, each with different skills, which was hectic to play at that time, but also absolutely fun.
Today's MOBA games have lowered the number of skills to a very low level in order to lower the threshold for getting started, and this smell can only be felt in the early RPGs of Warcraft - the research spirit of hardcore players. Now there is a popular word among gamers called "electronic XX", which means that many games have been bought, downloaded, but none of them can afford to play interest. And the era of Warcraft's fire can be said to be the era when everyone is most energetic, and when I was a child, a single-player game that was not very fun and full of flaws could be played for a long time. And "Warcraft", which can be called a perfect game, naturally attracts a large number of powerful and enthusiastic players to study, and many classic maps have emerged.
Among the player-made RPG maps I have played, the most enduring is "Clan Wars", you may think that the genre of self-propelled chess has only become popular in recent years, in fact, in my opinion, Clan Wars is the prototype of self-propelled chess. I recruited every turn to fight against others, and this kind of gameplay made me addicted for a long time. At present, this game has come out of "Clan Wars 5", in Baidu Tieba and Clan War Bar has 90,000 followers, and this is just a work of Warcraft map editor.
Later, the official Warcraft official battle platform was launched, which can be regarded as a reliable platform for the majority of Warcraft RPG fans and map authors to carry out unified management. And the game genre is no longer limited to single players, and many of them have become like long-term online games. During this period, excellent works have grown at a blowout rate, and many authors have innovated on the basis of previous old pictures.
For example, there is a picture called "Smash Bros.", which may be the closest to auto-propelled chess but not self-propelled chess. You can imagine changing the self-propelled chess to only one hero, which is strengthened by adding equipment and upgrading skills to this hero, and the matching mechanism is similar to the popular Genting and other self-propelled chess - eight people together, randomly 1v1 per turn, and live to the final victory. The biggest pain point in this picture before was that you couldn't find anyone to play with, after all, it was really difficult to make up eight friends who played games together. And Smash Bros. set up its own server, attracting a large number of players to play, and also makes this diagram burst into life now.
Whether it is the game itself or the RPG map, there is so much to say and recall. It's a pity that the national uniform will soon be closed, and the memories of the youth that accompanied countless people will also come to an end, but from another point of view, its far-reaching impact on the entire game industry will never disappear, maybe there will be a game genre based on an RPG map in the future!