Hello,
When I download and run the installers for both:
Warcraft® III: The Frozen Throne®
LINK: ( download . battle . net/en-us/platform=windows&product=w3tft&locale=enUS )
Warcraft® III: Reign of Chaos
LINK: (download . battle . net/?platform=windows&product=w3roc&locale=enUS
Both redirect me to the Warcraft Reforged tab in Battle.net.
Interestingly, I can run Warcraft Reforged without purchasing it, since my WC3 TFT and ROC CD keys are attached to my account.
Even if you click on “Helpful Links: Official Site” in the provided links, it takes you to the “Warcraft Reforged” website.
It seems like Warcraft III: TFT and ROC have both been removed and replaced by the Reforged version…
And all I want is to log my old Warcraft 3 TFT account, as I have invested over 5000 hours into it (with over 3500 ranked matches and an Illidan icon unlocked for 1500 wins on random)…
Thanks in advance,
Stefan aka Shubi
Legacy Battlenet accounts were purged years ago.
The store, launcher, and account management will all direct to the the only official current version, Reforged.
If you want to play the pre-Reforged version(s), you have to go find them on the internet. The only exception is 1.27 is available from Bliz.
The only restriction is you can’t connect to Battlenet or it will upgrade to Reforged.
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Hello,
If you use Google, you can easily find the original installers. That is what you should do- or if you searched this forum, you’d find the correct links to the original installers. Either way works.
You can not. The old war3 accounts are no more. You can not play online with the old versions of the game, as they will patch to reforged if you try.
It’s unfortunate that this is the way it is, but their original rationale was since the game is still the same game, just with new menus, UI, and graphics, that people wouldn’t want to stay on the old version, and keeping both operating would divide the already fairly small community too much to be able to have enjoyable online games.
Separate versions worked fine for diablo II because that isn’t a competitive game and you don’t need nearly as many players online for the game to work as intended.