Feel its kinda greedy i brought warcaft 3 cause my disk gotten broken on move, for my game i brought to be force to be remastered and i have to use that. i want my original back because this new bull… willnt let me play now cause of how much bull… they have put into their download verison. i brought warcarft 3 not F remastered. anyone else not happy?
you can download warcraft 3: the frozen throne for free without having a disc and play with classic key…thats what i did. I dont know where my CD is.
btw its *bought
1.27 is still available from Bliz. Just don’t try to connect to Battlenet. If you do, it will upgrade to Reforged.
If looking for specific localizations, see the “Country Codes” section.
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To add to this, I recommend blocking the executable in your firewall so it can’t connect to Battlenet even if you accidentally click it.
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There’s this really cool thing on the internet, it’s called Google. By using Google, you can find all sorts of things on the internet, like old versions of Warcraft III, among billions and billions of other things. Try doing an internet search. You might be surprised at the results.
That’s not actually all that helpful at this point - not everyone knows the proper search terms and how to vet results. Google itself is also somewhat unreliable due to searches being contaminated by sponsored links and straight up unfitting results. Using other search engines can mitigate that but it’s not a foolproof solution. Sometimes assistance like Leviathan’s links is far more beneficial than just telling someone to google it.
Google-Fu can only take you so far sometimes and it’s, from my experience, an increasingly uncommon skill. Asking for help is always free and shouldn’t be scoffed at - I know you don’t mean to sound like it but your answer can easily come across as really sarcastic and condescending.
I’m sorry but that’s really not much of an excuse. You can type a bunch of stuff into google, like “warcraft III installers.” throw in a version number. Or search internet archive, since people have dumped the ISOs on there… The point I’m trying to make is if one actually looked for these things instead of asking other people to find them for them, they would both find them and also learn how to search for things more effectively in the process. Yeah, google isn’t literal magic, but if you really want to find something it really isn’t that hard unless it’s so obscure that it barely exists on the internet at all.
And if you know how to use google, you know how to just scroll past the sponsored links to get to the actual search results.
The problem with these installers that you describe as being so easy to find might not be their availability, but rather their authenticity.
If some jamoke online tells me that he will let me freely download Patch 1.31 and run it from his MegaUpload whatsit, or from his Google Drive, from my perspective it is extremely unclear if the software downloaded from their link can be trusted for computer security or not.
If you follow projects like JNGP, Warcraft III Nirvana’s DLL extensions, SharpCraft, W3CE, and others, it is extremely evident that if desired there are people with the technological know-how to provide a download of a program that is based on the Warcraft III binary but includes additional binary instructions. For the average user, verifying the behavior of these additional instructions and whether they are safe from a computer security standpoint is time consuming. In theory, the original Warcraft III binaries in some versions were signed using some Microsoft signature system. In practice, I would bet that some are, and some are not, and for the average user who doesn’t know the difference, a bad actor could extremely easily get malicious code trickling through the cracks onto the computers of people… who just wanted to play the game without the Reforged web menu system…
On top of this, the recent Debug leaks of Warcraft Reforged showed us that for for the bloaks in the office at Activision there is a command line argument to Reforged engine called -classicui which launches the program using the Frozen Throne menu subsystem, which renders using the original game technology (“howling wind noise” menu), and thus it can run at much higher performance on some computers. It launches the game without the “WebUI” component, entirely.
So, this is one of those situations where the technology users like @death2010 are asking for exists, but this company destroyed it.
Providing a simple download to the 1.31 patch from an official Battle.net URL would solve most of these problems. To be honest, it might be much better if the developer team could figure out how to recompile 2.0.1 with the Reforged components removed which is basically how Patch 1.31 was created originally anyway, since internally it bares many similarities to Reforged. Then, they could provide this 2.0.1.lite build (which would be 2 GB or smaller in size, and would exclude the “WebUI” components) as a separate download.
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I understand this sort of thing, and this is why checksums exist that can help you determine if you have the right file.
But you don’t even need to look to sites like that, as the files are still hosted on Blizzard’s FTP- and google can search that.
The point is, I was hoping to nudge the poster in the direction of learning how to find things instead of asking other people to find them for them. They learn something and we potentially have to answer many fewer questions.
Also internet archive is generally safe and it has the files too.
Isn’t this only the case for certain older patches? I was under the impression that a patch like 1.31 was never on FTP
I’m only referring to pre-reforged installers. I don’t know what game versions they made installers for.