Like the title says
Both titles get me past the intro video and once the loading screen clears I get a message saying:
“Lost connection to Battlenet. Please login to battlenet and restart the client”
I’m 1000% sure I’m connected to battle.net. I’m typing this right here and my battle net client is connected and working just fine, I can log into wow and other games no problem so definitely not a connection problem.
Anyone know what is going on? I already restarted and tried everything I can think of
PS FFS blizzard, it wouldn’t let me post this message because i cannot include links in my posts… yeah the word BATTLE(DOT)NET is clearly a malicious domain that must be blocked immediately from the battlenet forums…
/sigh… c’mon guys… you can do better…
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Are you launching through the Desktop icon? Try to start the Battle.net launcher first, and then the game from inside.
Yeah that’s … another entirely different problem lol
If I try to launch from the desktop icon (That the battlenet launcher created btw) I get a windows crash error that says:
Window Title: Fatal Error - Warcraft.exe
(Red round checkbox a-la visual c++ code error)
couldn’t open file number (check filepaths.h):246
(Exit button)
So I went into the game folder and ran the exe from there…
But yeah it figures if you do that it wont work because it doesn’t load the battle net hooks
Let me try running it directly from battlenet.
UPDATE:
Ahh there it is! that’s what caused the problem, running it directly from the battlenet “Play” blue button worked perfectly.
Guess they need to fix their icons lol
Wow this takes me back… I remember having this exact problem way back when, that if you loaded the game without loading the battlenet/Kali dos client first you could not play multiplayer due to the IPX protocol limitations
Thanks for the tip, I can now play the games, hope this topic is useful to others.
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I opened a thread about it on the Warcraft 1/2 section too (since it’s not really a legacy game.) Their desktop shortcuts absolutely do not work.
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Same issue here. Get’s past the opening video and then hits me with the “Lost connection to Battlenet. Please login to battlenet and restart the client”
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currently having the same issue.
I was playing earlier today
edit:
Confirming it is both 1 and 2.
3 seems to be working fine
edit2:
banner just popped up on WC3 saying emergency maintenance for the next 2 hours.
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Also having this issue now.
Was playing fine earlier but having the issue now as well.
Same issue. Was playing it last night with no issues. I’ve tried opening it through all different methods, and none of them work. Even tried launching as administrator. Tried scan & repair. Haven’t tried reinstalling, but that would likely delete my game progress and shouldn’t be necessary for a game this old. Also tried checking for updates… nothing… please help?
same issue, wtf is happenning
Same issue here and it seems to be global… I’ve looked through Battlenet and Warcraft Reforged shows "We will be performing emergency maintenance for the next 2 hours and the game will be unavailable during this time. Thank you for your patience and apologies for any inconvenience caused. " which likely related to Warcraft 1 and 2 as well
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Same here…and it confuses me. Warcraft 1 and 2 are single player games (minus the battle.net edition)… why do I need an internet connection to play single player games that are installed on my PC?
Incompetent programming?
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I start either WC Remastered or WC II Remastered from the Battle.net client app and the game refuses to start because the connection is lost.
Same issue. Please fix. I just want to play the campaign. I shouldn’t need an internet connection for that.
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Same issue happened on me. This is unacceptable. Please fix asap.
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Yeah I can’t play either, As soon as game loads, say’s cannot connect to bnet… FML I regret trusting Blizz…
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Same here, thought it was me until I saw this. I was also playing about 3-4 hours ago perfectly fine.
Same problem. Yesterday everything was fine. That is really embarassing.
should not need to connect to the bnet to play the campaign ?? i just bought the game, and surprise it does not work. wow blizzard GG refund my money.
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Ok great, so how can i refund this sh*t?
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