Hello Blizzard Activision. From 2003 until 2020, there was a feature in the Warcraft III World Editor to create a file with the extension W3N called a “campaign” that represented a sequence of maps to play in series with stored hero stats and progress between them.
On the Warcraft III: Reforged menu that was created in a hurry to replace the old menu, the button to play a W3N file was not added back in, so now there is no supported way to play them. However, the Warcraft III: Reforged World Editor still has all of the utilities to create a W3N file and string together a series of maps in sequence. But then the game is unable to play the creation, because of how the Reforged upgrades were hacked in while the developers were being pressured and in a hurry.
Please add back the feature to play W3N files. Fans were creating the W3N files as inputs to play on this game engine for 17 years while they were a supported feature, and so there are 17 years of content now that motivating people not to play the officially sanctioned version of this game because of a stupid UI thing that some programmer did not bother to put a button into the game in order to run a W3N file even though the game engine already supported that kind of file for 17 years.
I am writing this note because of how I consider it to be inevitable that whoever you hire to work on this game will be a low-budget employee who does not know this history, and does not realize that for the fans the absence of the “Play W3N” menu button makes your company look bad every single passing day.
Thanks, best wishes. Please help get this fixed so that your company looks better and captures the respect of the players, or at least if you are all emotionally suffering then you should delete the menus to create the W3N files from the Warcraft III: Reforged World Editor so that you will not confuse the playerbase.