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Guys, how has this ENTIRE thread existed with NOBODY mentioning the Public Test Realm server?!?!
ALERT TO EVERYONE: You can go back to the classic Bnet client and play just like you were the day before Reforged came out.
Here are instructions: x_https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/warcraft3/t/omg-i-can-go-back-to-classic-tft-now-everyone-come-read-d/16355
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Read the blue post at the top of the forums. They are standing up MMP servers that will support both Classic and Reforged. Hang tight. BN support will be back for Classic.
Dont worry, I’m pretty sure they will announce a WC3 classic coming back on this years Blizzcon. For 30 € ofc 
@OP - dont keep wasting your time with zanzabar hes an idiot
No! /10bigNO’s
This has got to be the most shill respond I have ever seen in my entire life. I am dying to know how much Blizzard is paying you.
He is literally asking to be able to play the game he paid for a long time ago, the game he loved all this time, the game hes been loyal to, the game hes been commited to, and you keep giving him these shill soulless dead answers that even if his property has been taken, he could always just sleep in the back alley as an alternative, but should probably just accept big brothers decision.
F*** integrity and respect.
“Theres not much else you should reasonably be expecting” said ZenasPrime, a Xi Jinping representative, as he siezed your property and moved you out to the ricefields.
dude, you can still play the old game that you played for 18 years. What are you blabbering about?
No you cant. 99% of us who were still loyal WC3 gamers played online togheter, we did so right up to the very minute of Reforged launch. We want to be able to continue playing like we did before and this is no longer possible no matter how you twist and turn your arguments.
We did not care for LAN or singleplayer, and the vast majority of us arent gonna be able to find Bnet backends.
Of course you have no sympathy for this as you are literally telling us to go find back alleys (just because they may exist) and search the roads for scraps of food (just because its possible) to even remotely being able to enjoy a piece of what we once had, and that we should somehow be satisfied with this. It is an extremely authoritarian method of “solution”.
There was absolutely no reason for Blizzard to kill off this huge loyal and dedicated community of somehing they loved and respected and commited themselves to, OP stated he has thousands of hours invested, and many of us can relate to it.
It took Blizzard more effort to deny him his customer priveledge than it would have to just preserve it. You realize that dont you? The decision was draconian and malicious in nature because Blizzard today is run by accountants and marketing strategists who only cares about whats long term profitable, and not whats in the fans best interest.
But f*** if you care right? This is the new Blizzard so shut up and fall in line.
Again, you are a paid shill and should just openly state how much Big Brother is paying you to give these “responds”.
Communist.
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Yes, you can. Stop crying about something that isn’t wrong. Learn how to use your computer.
https://imgur.com/DP1RcqL
Oh, the irony. hahahahaha!
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Pretty sure communism would be forcing a independent company to keep servers open because you want them. As opposed to a capitalist free market that allows them to shut down the servers they own at any point in time they deem worthy.
Then again you also believe there is a magical place people can go to get paid if they don’t agree with your opinion and post against it.
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Did you even read what I wrote? You cant play original wc3 the same way you did before with the same people in the same community. The only way to reconnect to classic online is to find backend solutions which is just bad and unreasonable. It shouldnt be that way, and it hampers any real chance or possibility of being able to fully experience the work and community you once had when absolutely everyone are forced to go through multiple doors this time, and it shouldnt be accepted as a “redeemable solution”.
I was refering to him and not the company. His views and level of argumentation are extremely authoritarian. To accept harsh and unrational decisions because you’re beneth the decision. That you have no grounds for criticism and you are expected to make-do with the scraps of resources that hasnt been taken from you.
That is authoritarian, and unless he hasnt been paid to “provide” these vague solutions to promote the company in a better light despite their disrespectful decisions, then he is simply an a55hole.
it’s what most players were doing for years prior to the WC3R announcement and WC3 was patched to use BattleNet2. You’re acting as if ALL OF A SUDDEN AFTER 18 YEARS Blizzard removed BattleNet support.
Dude, I’m literally telling you to find your own solution rather than crying to daddy Blizzard to fix it for you. The complete opposite of Communism.
Wrong, and this is a testimony that you neither have any idea, and cannot relate to the frustration we feel.
Prior to Reforge release, all you did was open WC3, click on Battlenet, log on and start playing. There were very few who actually used alternative ways, the vast majority played thorugh the intended service, right up the the very hour before Reforge launch.
Yes ALL OF A SUDDEN, Warcraft 3 online Bnet support was removed. We are forced to play Reforged, unless we find alternative ways for ourselves and that is a very spiteful thing to do and it hampers our chances and ability to fully return to status quo.
Then you are missing the whole point of this thread. We never needed you to tell us how to do it, thats not the point. We know its possible to some extent to return, but its irrelevant because reasons I have already written TWICE. Its spiteful to consumers and dedicated fans to force them into back-alleys and half-murder the community because most wont bother to find all the doors.
They literally could have left original WC3 untouched, thats the only thing we really asked for, they went through more trouble to ruin our experience than they would have by preserving it.
You’re acting like some company shill who pretty much boasted in your first 3 posts in this thread that “its all Fine 'n Dandy. No biggy” and your ultimate respons to company deicsion criticism was “Theres not much else you should reasonably be expecting”.
That is absolutely F***ed and you are a malicious moron for even attempting to trivialize our dedication, problems and regrets, with your bull5hit pandering to this new Blizzard.
If that’s what you were doing, you haven’t been playing WC3 for very long. You’ve probably only been playing since 2018 when the game was patched to work with BattleNet2 after the WC3R announcement.
Wish they would have just closed access to it again instead of trying to merge the two…would at least leave us with less confused people.
Why do you keep cherrypicking irrelevant points instead of responding to the greater context? Are you that desperate to avoid the actual point? I am almost certain that you are trolling at this stage in order to avoid losing your face, since theres nothing of value you can retort on. Your tunnelvision is so fixed on the fact that every thousands of players should do as you do, quietly and obediently pick up the threads, instead for questioning Blizzards decisions and, god forbid, call it out for what it truly was and the nature of its necessity.
Again and again I will say it: They went through more effort to deny us our experience and passion, rather than the effort it would have taken to preserve and respect it. This is the core of the argument. Blizzard knew there was going to be backlash for aborting orginal WC3 (and force us to scavenge for alternative solutions) but they did it anyway.
I have played WC3 on and off since 2004. Again in 2008 for the sake of dota. Played 2013 before I went backpacking for a few years, like many others I returned when Reforged was announced. Anything else you would like to know that could be crucial for the subject? I am also left-handed, cut my nails on sundays, and listen Pink Floyd. Maybe with this information you can get on track with the debate and arguments raised.
Godspeed.
So if they don’t change battlenet to allow classic to work as it did, what will happen is people will just find ways to privately “lan party” over the internet to play their custom maps. Which I wholeheartedly support, as compared to WoW and Private servers, going from “you think you do but you dont” to “wow classic launch” I would have thought blizzard would learn from their mistakes, because history repeats itself. So look this thread up in a few years and maybe if blizzard still even exists if they realize it too late as which seems to be the norm, and tries to release classic versions of bnet games.
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1st: cd keys i can get @ my account doesnt allow me to install from downloaded discs
2nd: my ROC and TFT boxes are at home ~1500km away… im not going to involve my parent in to any searching of them
3rd: we were advertised to register blizzard games in to one account to have all games accesible, to get easy of installations sources etc etc…
4th: installation source @ battlenet allow my, rather FORCING me to install REFORGED version…
Look at StarCraft Remaster, they didnt cut any of classic features. And Remastered and CLassic options work fine, LAN work Fine, ladder work FINE!