Warcraft 3 Reforged Devs Were Using Reddit Posts To Fix Beta Bugs

Warcraft 3 Reforged Has Had a Really Rough Launch

Warcraft 3 Reforged launched last week with a slew of bugs and other technical issues that have resulted in Blizzard (yet again) incurring significant backlash from its fans (such as the game receiving, as of writing, a 0.5 Metacritic user score). This was all despite a 2019 beta launch for the game when Blizzard gathered feedback about the betaโ€™s technical issues for the eventual full release.

Notably, according to a recent PCGamesN interview, one of the ways Blizzard found out about beta bugs was via Reddit comments.

Warcraft 3 Reforged

PCGamesN spoke with Blizzard production designer Kaeo Milker and lead artist Rob McNaughton about how beta feedback affected the gameโ€™s development and McNaughton mentioned how Reddit helped the team fix technical issues.

โ€œI was actually getting forwarded info right off of Reddit saying โ€˜Hey, the art here is slightly weird'โ€, McNaughton said. โ€œWeโ€™re literally fixing bugs directly from Reddit comments.โ€ McNaughton also said that beta provided โ€œa ton of great feedbackโ€ and added that Blizzard โ€œreally value betasโ€.

When it comes to how Blizzard will fix the launch version of Warcraft 3 Reforged, McNaughton assured PCGamesN that the studio will continue working on improving the game.

โ€œI think weโ€™ll continue, as we watch the game, to listen to those things and look for opportunities to keep aligning to the best version of the game that we can have here,โ€ he said.

SOURCE