This is because we no longer pretend videogames are fixed and tangible, instead claiming they are a “service”, and in combination with the sort of consumer-friendly laws that ensure Mickey Mouse will forever be the property of Disney, we can update and revise games into perpetuity for maximum profits.
So as part of the never-ending quest for corporations to retroactively engineer culture and art in the pursuit of their bottom line, Blizzard Entertainment has hired a team of graduate students who have never lived a day in their adult lives where real-time strategy games were important, and asked them to “fix” a game that never needed to be fixed. “Early Access” is the latest innovation made possible by the ubiquitous nature of the modern internet, where a company releases a shitty videogame, and when you call it shit, the company and its fans can claim it is in “Early Access” and that you need to give it more time. Released to wide acclaim in a year long before most of you idiots were born, Warcraft III is better than ever, and the launch of Patch 1.31 represents a revolution for Blizzard Entertainment and its parent company, Union Carbide.
Who is this unknown hero? We’ll all find out soon enough!
