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>>5726075
As I remember, the Forge was supposed to be this cyberpunk/sci-fi town that was supposed to be added in Armageddon's Blade. You know, nagas with gatling guns an cyber-goblins with lasers. Bizarrely enough, this actually made a lot of sense in a greater Might and Magic lore, where sci-fi and fantasy intertwine each other. Inferno, or Kreegan are actually aliens from other planet - with a spaceship and all that shit.
Needless to say, first concept arts and screenshots of the Forge were leaked before Armageddon's Blade premiere and fans who played only HoMM series were confused and angry as fuck - because it apparently "does not fit the fantasy tone of the game". The fan backlash rose to such a ridiculous (and completely childlish) scale - there were literal fucking death threats aimed at the developers involved - that NWC scrapped the Forge and hastily replaced it with "more fantasy" Conflux. That's why Conflux looks like "last-minute addition". It was.