I’d bought WC3 legally through Activision-Blizzard’s BattleNet client years back to play some custom games with, ironically, some friends I’d met playing Dota 2. I personally noticed this just a few days ago, when I decided to casually play WC3 classic to actually see what the hype was about. Upon the release of Reforged, players on Blizzard forums noticed that WC3 had vanished from their computers. And you can’t even utilize the Reforged graphics.īasically, WC3 owners get all the frustrations of Reforged - downloading the big update and being forced into the new client - without the positives of the RTS remaster. WC3 classic owners are now forced to download Reforged regardless. According to Blizzard, you can no longer download the classic client anymore, even if you’re a legal user. If you own the original Warcraft 3… Well, you don’t anymore. Surprise! You can’t even install classic Warcraft 3 anymore - even if you bought the original game. But when I installed the thing, I didn’t expect to get entirely pushed out of my classic Warcraft 3 experience. Outcries escalated to the point where Blizzard is even offering near-instant refunds on the game. It’s buggy, under-delivers on promises, and forces custom game creators to abandon their intellectual property. Hopefully Blizzard can get back on track and take all the criticism the company is currently receiving and use it for good rather than evil.To say Warcraft 3: Reforged is “a bit of a disappointment” would be a massive understatement. Even Diablo III ended up being pretty good after a couple years of updates, and I still love Overwatch. That’s a new kind of mistake even for the video game industry.Īll of this will no doubt put a damper on fan enthusiasm for the Diablo 2 remaster and for Diablo IV’s eventual release. Certainly, if nothing else, the original game should not be impacted by the failures of the remaster. That it keeps making them is beyond all explanation. These are unforced errors that Blizzard should, by now, be able to avoid. It’s perplexing, to be honest, given the size of the company and the success of so many of its past projects. This is just one more disaster in a string of bungled projects, announcements and releases from Blizzard that at least on their face seem entirely avoidable. The Warcraft 3 reddit and Blizzard forums are war-zones at the moment, with gamers up in arms over the state of the game. Take that with a grain of salt-but if it’s true, it’s a problem. I’m not sure how accurate it is, but others are reporting users being banned from the Blizzard forums for complaining or asking for refunds.
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