You failed Blizzard. Warcraft III: Reforged was one of the worst embarrassments in video game development history. The game is actually worse than the original release and it’s not even close. No one wants to play Warcraft III: Reforged but there are a lot of people who would buy a DRM free version of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos + The Frozen Throne on GOG. Warcraft I and II are already available on GOG so it only makes sense to add Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos + The Frozen Throne on GOG for a like $5 dollars and stop pretending like anyone still cares about Warcraft III: Reforged. You already got all the pre-order money plus all the revenue from the few thousand people who didn’t refund the game so stop being greedy and do what’s good for the customer for once and maybe people will finally have something positive to say about Blizzard again…
They already admitted they failed; but they’re not going to release it on GOG. If they did, it would still be Reforged, as they’re not going to sell a game with no online services. So the only difference would be the storefront. This doesn’t really serve much purpose, and if they release it on any other platform, it’s just going to get review bombed, because frankly we’ve already done that here.
I just want them to release the original version of the game and add a couple servers to support it. I mainly play the campaign so I don’t really even have a stake in the competitive multiplayer but I’m sure players could host their own servers.
you can play the campaign on roc/tft without them doing that 
THe original version of the game is already out, it came out 20something years ago. 
It is readily avialable online and you can play it anytime you like.
As for servers, the whole doggone point of making Reforged was to move the game to the new battle.net system. The servers are never coming back. And there’s no reason for it either. It makes way more sense to actually fix the game than to bring back the old one. They just need to actually do that.
Because the reality is, it’s the same game on the same engine with (at least now) same features, they’re just busted in myriad ways. Reforged was really just a patch.
I don’t understand your argument, however? You can literally get patch 1.26 and use your Blizzard-given CD keys to activate it, lmao. How is that different from getting it through GOG?
Billion dollar company, no one is failing
How? By buying a physical copy of the game on Ebay? I mean I would be willing to do that but i would rather just buy it on GOG
There’s no need to do that, you can find disc images anywhere if you look.
here is a suggestion: release it on gog with gog server support. the cheap way for blizzard to do that is to give gog parts of the source code. just enough to change the network interface.
Yeah they’re never going to do that. Any server that runs any form of any blizzard game must be under Blizzard’s control.
they’re never going to roll back Reforged so really, stop wasting your breath and just start hoping they fix the rest of the issues.
idk are gameranger and eurobattle and stuff under blizz control?
and while we’re on this line of thought, maybe just use those instead of waiting around for a gog release that won’t happen
I don’t know what those are, so probably not?
Neither is W3C but ultimately, the only official solution you may ever get is more fixes for W3R, so either permahate on blizz and pirate it or wait for the patches.
GameRanger seems to be some sort of Hamachi clone (Meaning a program that, in Warcraft 3, allows LAN games through virtual networks to the desired player).
Eurobattle meanwhile looks like a private server for ladder play, customs and Dota 1.
Now as far as I know, the latter is allowed as long as it ain’t, you know, monetized or advertised. GameRanger meanwhile is completely fine, it’s an external program to create private networks that you share to others, what’s done with the network itself is not up to Blizzard. If they want to stop that, they’ll need to patch the game to take out LAN games altogether.
Private bnet servers are most definitely not “allowed.” They may or may not be ignored by Blizzard, but they are within their rights to go after or shut them down.
That said, history shows that Blizzard don’t go around closing servers (aside from maybe WoW Scape in 2008). W3Arena and Nostalrius were shut down by their own owners, and so was Brood War’s Fish, iirc.
There’s even a new Brood War server (forgot the name), and it coexists with SCR. But yeah, regarding WC3, it’s all mostly DotA. (I checked a WC3 server when my retail game wasn’t working, it was a ghost town, sadly. But cool for historical purposes, and for old custom campaigns, of course.)
I don’t want to pirate the game from some shady website. I’d rather just buy it on GOG. I know Blizzard will never release the original game on GOG but I can still ask…
It’s more that their ability to do so is limited, and any company will target the highest profile operations first. Many of these servers are hosted in various other countries where they can not easily be shut down due to the legal climate in those locations.
If you previously bought the game anywhere else (i.e. RoC/TFT) and have keys for it, there is absolutely nothing wrong with just downloading it anywhere you can find it.
I just don’t see any reason to buy the game on some other storefront over battle.net other than convenience. Say what you want about Blizzard but battle.net is really the least problematic thing about them in my opinion at least. While wider availability isn’t necessarily a bad thing, what exactly wrong with battle.net? I remind everyone again, Blizzard still gets money no matter what app the game is sold from.
If you already own the game, you have pirated nothing.