But in this case, Warcraft 3 will still be playable.
Just not with the Reforged visuals and Reforged campaign until you authenticate it again.
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Which means Warcraft 3 Reforged is unplayable. Theyâre not the same game even if theyâre being baked into the same client.
I paid $30 for Warcraft 3 Reforged. I should be able to play it whenever the hell I want, without restrictions. I bought the damn game. Itâs mine. Consumer law says so.
Uh. I mean really youâre paying for the campaigns and visuals. A Reforged purchase also comes with Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne as well, which is what youâre rolled back to if you arenât online once a month.
If you didnât have them prior, youâre paying $30 for those too.
I imagine if this was such a big deal to you too, youâd at least have some steps in place to make sure that you never lose access to it either if accessibility is such a pressing matter in your mind. You know. A safety net while hopefully the industry changes.
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The fact that there is no physical copy should be telling what youâre buying.
If you bought a DLC skin for a game that no longer exists, you could also consider that âFraudâ, but I doubt you would be able to do anything actionable considering there are certain terms of service that you need to agree upon before purchase.
If you do not agree with the terms of service, thenâŚ
Hmm, I guess youâre already doing the reasonable thing and whining on the forums. I guess I was wrong.
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Uh. I mean really youâre paying for the campaigns and visuals. A Reforged purchase also comes with Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne as well, which is what youâre rolled back to if you arenât online once a month.
If you didnât have them prior, youâre paying $30 for those too.
I most definitely had those prior.
I imagine if this was such a big deal to you too, youâd at least have some steps in place to make sure that you never lose access to it either if accessibility is such a pressing matter in your mind. You know. A safety net while hopefully the industry changes.
I do, actually. I plan on getting a 1TB flash drive or two in the coming weeks. Iâm gonna make a backup of the current Warcraft 3 release just in case. Should have done this with Brood War but that client has already been replaced with the Remastered one; I didnât back it up because I didnât believe Blizzard would be this shady.
Wrong.
Digital goods are still goods. You own all rights to your copy.
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A once-a-month login to authenticate digital goods being described as shady is kind of amusing. Unnecessary? Yes. Shady? A bit dramatic.
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When it stands the risk of locking me out of playing Warcraft 3 Reforged when Blizzard decides to stop supporting it, it IS shady.
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I still think thereâs better things to put Blizzard under the microscope for than something like this.
You own the rights.
Which means you have the right to play your game so long as you have access to it. It is not on them whether or not you have access to it.
I mean at this point you can even say itâs fraud because you canât play the game when you donât have a PC. Itâs fraud because they donât give you a PC to play it on right?
You know you can still download the pre-SCR BW, right?
No you canât. Theyâre both run on the exact same client now. I already tried.
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There are other ways to download games, not just the Blizzard launcher.
Intentionally breaking your ability to play the game because they no longer want to support it when itâs a digital good is fraud.
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Have they done that?
If they havenât then itâs not fraud. You are arguing some fictional scenario if they intentionally break your ability to play the game because they no longer want to support it, not that they have.
Your argument should be rephrased to âit would be fraud ifâ, not that it is fraud.
Stop derailing this innocent thread, go back to your own.
It ainât no fraud, chap.
No but under this system, they easily can and I see no reason to believe they wonât at this point.
Then yâall should start replying to me over there instead of here.
But I agree, this derailment has gone on too far.
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Brood War went free to play. If you purchased Remastered and are trying to just get the base Brood War game off the client, chances are itâs not working out as you expect because you have a Remastered key tied to your account.
Yeah itâd be nice if it didnât work like that, because now I donât have access to the version of the game that doesnât require the Battlenet client to run it.