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. To say Warcraft 3: Reforged is “a bit of a disappointment” would be a massive understatement.
