A Petition for Long-term Support of Public Test Realm (Old Bnet Interface)

Dear Reforged Team,

First of all, I’m sorry for all of the non-constructive negative comments about Reforged. I know you guys poured a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into making this a reality for us, and we really appreciate that!

With that said, I’ve always played purely custom games on WC3, and for the custom game community, there really is no need for a reforged update. We actually prefer everything to stay exactly as it used to be! Call us old farts but we’ve been playing the same games for 10 years now! We love things as they are.

As another thread has pointed out (link below), the Public Test Realm currently allows us to go back to the old Bnet interface to play custom games. My worry is that Blizzard will withdraw support for this client, and take the server down in the near future.

So, I’m creating this thread as a plea to provide long term support for the old Bnet client (in the form of the public test realm) or another realm.

As I’m sure you all know, we are very passionate about this game. And, I think that translates to dollars. I, for one, would be willing to generously fund the ongoing maintenance of the public test realm. And, just from talking to people in my community, I’m not alone. If this is a financial decision, let us know how to support you!

Again, thank you again for your hard work. And, I hope you consider this request seriously.

Very Best,
Dumdedum

Instructions to play on the public test realm (the old bnet version) are found here: OMG! I can go back to Classic TFT now. Everyone Come read! :D :) - #41 by AaronK-1746

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i support this idea. hope blizzard will listen

yes sure!!!

Spread the word if you agree :). Hopefully they read this.

“Yes, I fully support!! Spread the word!”

There are more and more people joining the PTR realm. I hope it gets revitalized.

Just seeing these posts today, I was heartbroken to see the new client but now I have some hope again. I intend to set this up as quickly as I can so that I can hear those old chains clinking as the game opens to that chilly throne. I haven’t played reforged and never had any interest in it as I considered RoC and TFT pretty perfect to begin with, I appreciate what Blizz has tried do but…if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. See you all in the custom maps!

Just found out the PTR is dead. RIP WC3

This was never going to happen. They would have to probably host a different client entirely as the PTR is designed to be changed constantly. The only reason it wasn’t updated yet was likely because there wasn’t a test realm for Battle.net 2.0 prior to the update (which given, is a pretty dumb decision given everything that probably happened because of battle.net 2.0…)

What map broke for you?

Indeed. As soon as a Reforged build needed to be tested, PTR’s 1.31.1 would be wiped and replaced.

It would be better to support opening Battlenet 1.0 back up simply due to it having a chance of being something that coulds last a while.