Post by wadmodderpudu on Oct 14, 2019 14:19:32 GMT
You guys may know about the infamous Forge town that was once planned in Heroes of Might and Magic III: Armageddon's Blade back in 1999, the same year that the base game Restoration of Erathia was released.
Basically development of the first expansion was started shortly after the base game came out, one of the initial plans was to introduce a futuristic faction to the game called Forge, which I assume was derived from a plot element from the seventh installment of the Might and Magic series (Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor), the Heavenly Forge.
However, while development of the Forge was almost complete, fans negatively reacted to the inclusion of Forge, stating the inclusion destroys the high-fantasy setting of the HOMM games, and even 3DO and New World Computing received death threats, and scrapped the Forge town in favor of the Conflux town, which was on draft for a second expansion, which would eventually become Shadow of Death in 2000.
Some fans even say that this was one of the downfalls of both 3DO and New World Computing that led to their bankruptcy & demise in 2003.
Since neither expansion is included in the 2015 HD edition due to Ubisoft losing the source codes for both, we may never see any prototypes of Heroes of Might and Magic III and its expansions surface any time soon.
Here is a link to the article of the Might and Magic wiki on the scrapped Forge faction.
mightandmagic.fandom.com/wiki/Forge_(town)
Basically development of the first expansion was started shortly after the base game came out, one of the initial plans was to introduce a futuristic faction to the game called Forge, which I assume was derived from a plot element from the seventh installment of the Might and Magic series (Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor), the Heavenly Forge.
However, while development of the Forge was almost complete, fans negatively reacted to the inclusion of Forge, stating the inclusion destroys the high-fantasy setting of the HOMM games, and even 3DO and New World Computing received death threats, and scrapped the Forge town in favor of the Conflux town, which was on draft for a second expansion, which would eventually become Shadow of Death in 2000.
Some fans even say that this was one of the downfalls of both 3DO and New World Computing that led to their bankruptcy & demise in 2003.
Since neither expansion is included in the 2015 HD edition due to Ubisoft losing the source codes for both, we may never see any prototypes of Heroes of Might and Magic III and its expansions surface any time soon.
Here is a link to the article of the Might and Magic wiki on the scrapped Forge faction.
mightandmagic.fandom.com/wiki/Forge_(town)
