i hate to say this but do you really think they care about fans? they are banning people for 1-2 days just for asking for a refund of the new WC3. Blizz are just another corporation with money on their mind and thats all… the keep shafting the players and its annoying. I didnt even freakin purchase the stupid reforge and im affected, pisses me off.
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Completely agree. This blunder was possible because of two things:
- Blizzard is out of touch and don’t understand their original consumer base.
- Mismanagement and greed on wanting to monetize on existing IPs.
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I just tried to play LAN on the Classic PTR version without issues. I did with the PC connected to the Internet tho, but used the LAN option.
Please do not threaten us with a good time lol…
That’s… That’s dangerous.
Connecting to a VPN where you do not know and trust (like a proper paid VPN, an university or work VPN, or a server you built yourself) is basically inviting people to use your computer for botnets.
Hey, could you tell us which PTR build you used? Also, can we get more confirmations? I still can’t LAN on the 1.30.1 PTR build.
In the case of using VPN’s you don’t know, yes its unsecure. If you build it yourself and generate the .ovpn files yourself you can choose who has access and who doesn’t. The pivpn software allows you to monitor who is currently connected to your network, and you have to manually add and remove people from the client and revoke list. It’s very secure.
Yeah but you need to be a little tech savy to set up that . Your average player who just wants to play some war3 online will more then likely just go to software like w3connect instead, exposing such insecurities.
This is exactly why I haven’t fired up War3 for several months. Since 2018, every time I’d fire it up they would have some new update and it would break more and more and more of the game. And for what? Cross-region play? We didn’t need that; we had ENT bots for that. Searching game names? We had the entgaming (.net) website for that. Maphacks? Please. They didn’t care about that for the previous DECADE. Players just got click detectors and used the BOTS to IP ban players. Let’s see … they gave us more players? But they had already broken the AI logic so you could never actually play with that 1v23c you wanted. Even the 1v11c was broken by then.
Ironically, even shaking things up to remove the maphackers was a mistake; maphack would allow OBSERVERS to ZOOM OUT for a melee game. Maphack also allowed you to see exact ms of attack speeds. But did Blizzard add that back in? No.
Basically, the old guard saw this train wreck coming a long time off. Shame.
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Yeah, its a bit of a technical hurdle but definitely doable. I suggested it because we used to use a bunch of services like Garena and Hamachi on and off. I just got fed up after having to switching so many times due to services going down etc.
Now I don’t have to really worry about it any of that. Once everything is set up it’s really easy to get your friends to connect and play. Its not too complicated to set up either if you put your mind to it, it just requires a bit of linux and networking knowledge.
For people who are really paranoid about security, you can also subnet your network and isolate the device you run your VPN on. While that is also a technical solution, if you can figure out how to set up a VPN you should have no problem doing that.
It seems to me that Blizzard doesn’t really understand their older fanbase. I knew that they were going to mess up the release of Reforged, but I never imagined that it would be this bad. Honestly I’m kind of kicking myself now for not foreseeing how they would axe the old client and update the bnet terms of service to the one they use for StarCraft 2.
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@GiantAxe Thank you for this man. I might disagree a little bit with what you said about intellectual property here but thank you anyways.
I had given up hope of playing online again but then I totally forgot I played on Hamachi for a time with old buds. Very nice to see it’s still going. This was before I switched to W3Arena, but then W3Arena got shut down by Blizzard Activision on par with the supposed development of Reforged and basically forced everyone there back to Bnet to play with hackers and cheaters.
Now I literally CAN’T PLAY AT ALL with this supposed “up to date” client version and I never had plans to buy Reforged (and likely not ever now).
I have had my own Warcraft 3 Battlechest CDs along with legitimate CD keys too, legally purchased at the time. Nobody can physically stop you from reinstalling and staying with an earlier patch file, not even Activision. Missing from your guide: Virtual CDs (mounting .iso images, files) might be a thing too; you can legally own virtual discs / ROMs if you own a physical copy (under fair use policy), but not distribute them.
I thought Patch 1.26 would be enough as it was the patch that Blizzard left standing for years, but you’re right as not even 1.27 had that launcher yet.
Edit: Turns out you have to just give your WC3 CD keys to the machine online for your new Bnet client account. Wish I had some instructions on that (who’s going to know that the Bnet 2.0 client even exists if they’ve only just played Warcraft 3 before 2020?). Still not really optimistic about this.
Which is why Blizzard is loosing fans and support if they don’t get there sh*t together and make up for the fans. If no, well that’s why it’s call karma for them and Blizzard will probably have no fans anymore if they keep acting like this.
Thank you for your reply. I can of course install from the CDs with the original key but how do I go above 1.27b? Every time when I launched it want me to 1.3x something via battle net.
Go here Downloads – Blizzard Entertainment
Download Warcraft 3 Public Test Realm
It is pure and uncorrupted.
It’s censorship and it’s wrong.
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Thank you!
Take a look at the pastebin. You can’t patch higher than 1.27b because past that point the patchers force you to install the latest version. You can however find full builds above 1.27b out there.
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blizzard kill warcraft 3 , and there its trash reforged ,i hope blizzard died
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There is a “Play Offline” button when the game load prior to logging in. If you aren’t logged into BattleNet then this button is more obvious.
The LAN button is in the same place as the “offline” button. It goes away if you are logged into BattleNet.
Yes, this push for “always online” is annoying, but it is a replacement for CDs in Drive, Product Keys, DRM, etc… It’s naive to believe that a AAA studio won’t want to employ some level of protection for their software in today’s digital environment. The trade off is that the software can be easily and freely copied for multiple installations. That was not the case with previous licenses.
It’s not “Chome” but rather Chomium, a technology framework for displaying UI. It’s a common practice for modern machines and is used widely in the industry. It provide UI designers/developers with a tool that utilizes HTML, CSS, and Javascript rather than the older, more esoteric C++ methodologies. On modern hardware and OSs, this is a no brainer and it shouldn’t affect performance despite requiring more resources (modern machines have CPU and Memory to spare). It’s also more desirable from a production perspective as there are more developers who are proficient with these tools than the alternatives.
This is literally an option. If you do not want to link you key (and haven’t already through BattleNet), don’t link it.
You very much can continue to play using the old, un-upgraded client. I have it running on multiple computers, including the one that hosts my BattleNet and WC3R clients. It’s great that you are giving the less tech savvy players a How To on how to do this but you are making it sound as if Blizzard is forcing this update onto players unfairly, which is disingenuous. At worst, Blizzard is no longer offering the latest Pre-WC3R client for download. This doesn’t prevent anyone from installing the older clients from disk or previous patch file.
You are a hero! Thank you very much my dude.
Found the old CDs in their original jewel case and the CD-keys. Got them installed. To avoid any fel or void tainting of the original, I made a firewall rule to block the games from communicating outside my home network. I also disconnected from the internet during installation.