WarCraft Remastered Battle Chest should have been free for the people who bought the initial WarCraft III: Reforged and held on to it instead of refunding it.
My reasoning behind it:
There was an extended refund policy after the initial release because the game released in such a poor state.
But there were blizzard employees kinda implying that they would be thankful for people who kept the game and waited for it to become better.
Well I am one of those people who believed in blizzard just to be backstabbed by the recent battle chest released. Not only did it release with the same price, it also contained all the extra goodies we got PLUS the remastered versions of WC I & II.
If I had refunded the game back in the days I could have gotten WCI & II on top of it for the same price (even after the inflation).
To someone who has been loyal to Blizzard, this feels extremely bad.
Next time I am gonna just refund it.
It’s perplexing to see these kinds of posts periodically pop up and claim things like “slap in the face” and “screwed over” and “backstabbed”. It’s as if video gamers have never noticed that sales and bundles happen everywhere in retail, and they almost never take into account what customers have done in the past.
Also, prices change which is also something that happens in retail. Reforged is cheaper now, but that doesn’t entitle those who bought it when it was more expensive to additional products now that it’s cheaper.
Buy a coffee maker. Some time later a sale of “buy one, get one free” comes along. Who, besides gamers, thinks that because they bought one before the sale that they are entitled to take a free one?
With that logic, you should probably be refunding everything as soon as you buy it, just in case some better deal comes along. Or, you could reduce the work by not ever buying anything just in case a better deal comes along.
Both routes would essentially have the same outcome.
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Thanks for your opinion and giving me the chance to clarify my points. The thing is not that I bought a game that got cheaper over time. The thing is that the whole launch of WCIII Ref was so flawed that Blizz even extended the Refund period and pleaded to every other gamer to keep it and give them another chance. See, if I wouldnt had my hopes up, I would have refunded. If this would have been just any game I would have refunded. BUt blizz promised us that this game would become better and we gamers who believed in them would not be disappointed.
A good comparison would be the early access marketing/pricing. See you could get Satisfactory for only 30€ during the EA phase. On sale even for as low as 13€ regarding gg.deals. Now that its full release is done, its up another 10€ for a total of 40€. so, people testing it and deeming it worthy to keep and play after full release got a good deal for showing their trust.
Technically the 3 products had their own work so they deserve each one payment, even if one or more are bad, this is a critics point of view, not company’s.
I didn’t refund War3 Reforged because I continued playing it since 2020, even with all problems, there was still valuable work on it.
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that would make sense if it was just warcraft III, but it’s not.
Sure, they could have won some points with something like that, but to be honest I doubt it would have gone very far towards alleviating anything, especially considering the w1/2 remasters were kind of lazy.
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It ultimately doesn’t matter if the game was bad at the start or not. It is better now. Better enough that it sounds like you would rebuy it. This is no different than if the game had worked fine at the start but you needed to refund it for, say, financial reasons, and now you’re able to rebuy it.
So your crux that you could or should have refunded earlier and/or that there was an extended refund window, doesn’t play into it.
All that matters is how sales/bundles work. The rest is just buyer’s remorse due their own choices, which is something all buyers across all industried potentially face. But that doesn’t also unequivocally mean those who regret their decisions are owed something.
To say that you regret not refunding (for any reason) when you had the chance is fine and totally understandable. But to go further to say that you should be owed something because you didn’t, that’s a lack of acknowledging how sales/bundles/price changes work.
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