I own a physical copy of the original Warcraft 3 + Expansion and entered my CD keys ages ago. Throughout the years, I’ve been able to download and install the original games from my Blizzard account. I got the itch to play some more Warcraft 3 recently and have discovered that they’ve updated me to Reforged, but I think my version of Reforged is different, is this so? The Reforged graphics options are greyed out and gameplay is only in the classic graphics. Can anybody confirm my observation or am I doing it wrong? I find it incredibly strange that Blizzard would devote manpower to making a “classic-only Reforged” just for a niche amount of people who entered CD keys for the original game.
Out of curiosity, how long has it been this way? How long have I had this Reforged version and not been aware of it? I’m not concerned about not having the old old version of the game, I can still install it from my CD’s if I really want to.
This is indeed very normal. People who own a copy of the original games do not get access to the Reforged graphics, but the game is updated to the Reforged version since the toggle is simply visual and the gameplay remains the same, leading to the current arrangement where matchmaking allows non-Reforged players to be matched with those who bought it.
It has been the case ever since Reforged was a thing, including some of the beta versions before it was actually released, almost 5 years at this point.
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Thank you! I appreciate you shedding light on this for me and answering my questions. Congrats on 1,000 posts. I see you’re at 999 posts at the time of me writing this reply.
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And for the upteenth time YOU are everyone bud…15 days if not more about my post about invisible units and guess what?..still not fix or even addressed
What? That first part doesn’t make sense.
The second part, nothing here has been about the invisible units. It was just more of your carrying on about wanting the old and new kept separate. No where did anything about your other posts enter into this.
Focus.
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Like he said, if it bothers you that much go play the old version. I haven’t (not) seen any invisible units, so I can’t help you with that, but there have been multiple hotfixes pushed for specific issues, and there is a current known issue that led them to teporarily disable tournaments. So there is very likely to still be an update in the future.
But the thing is, if this is happening specifically in a custom map, there’s a pretty good chance it can only be fixed by the map maker.
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