Originally Posted by SerTomato
The writers even let Shadowheart say "nobody will remember you" to Viconia, well pardon my language, but fuck off.

I didn't play the originals but this kind of writing always leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. Obviously these kinds of in-character statements are not meant to be taken as a 1:1 indicator of the writer's own beliefs but usually the shoe just fits if you know what I mean. I also get that writers picking up threads from older generations need to have some freedom in how they handle these characters but it always comes across as besmirching their legacies to prop up their own characters. I just don't get why you would write it like that. Those older characters and their stories form the foundation you walk on and their legacies are part of the reason why people buy into your story to begin with. By undermining that foundation you're just shooting yourself in your own foot. Or to put it on other words: if no one will remember Viconia then why would they remember Shadowheart?

There are some really prominent examples of this (Blizzard's treating of Arthas in World of Warcraft comes to mind) and it's usually controversial at best and unanimously hated at its worst.

That being said, there will not be a rewrite of anything. Best you can hope for is a slight rearrangement of content in a potential definitive edition.