WTF Blizzard? Where my classic client?

anon17688411 · January 29, 2020, 1:03pm

Don’t lie. this is what we lost:

Reforged is a forced downgrade for classic users

Features that were available yesterday and have been cut 12 hours ago:

Cross-region play (the custom game list is no longer global and you can’t play with players from other realms, meaning it’s much harder to find players and fill game lobbies)

Custom campaigns

Clans

Player profiles

Ladder (ranked matchmaking, stats, automated tournaments)

Good, [battle.net](http://battle.net) 1.0 chat system (you can no longer use commands such as /f l, /join; information on how many players are currently playing; list of communal channels; [battle.net](http://battle.net) news section; overall the chat system lost its’ soul)

Beautiful UI/menus (in reforged client the menus feel sluggish and less optimised; the chat box overlaps the menus, atmospheric 3D campaign backgrounds are gone, etc.)

Creative freedom in custom games (the WE EULA has been changed, adding a lot of limitations - everything you create now fully belongs to Blizzard, read more in other topics; censorship in maps and game names, for example a lobby called “booty bay” can not be hosted, even though it’s the name of an offical WC3 map, etc.)

Classic graphics in Reforged client look worse (shadows are missing, saturation is off, some spells/effects are missing)

RoC campaign is now using TFT balancing

Features that were available before 2018 and have been cut during the latest updates:

Arranged teams

Reconnection via GProxy

Overall game stability (desyncs or crashes would almost never happen, now custom games are plagued with both)
Bot features (only going to list some of them):

Online lobby list and in-game chat, available from a browser (what games are hosted right now, how many players are in a lobby, etc.)

Competitive custom games (auto-balance and matchmaking based on ELO or empirical algorithms specialized for each custom map)

Ability to kick/ban trolls (after the removal of bots they added the ban functionality, but you would have to re-ban the person every session)

Better ping/latency

Protection against hacks and maphacks

Anti-spam protection

Automatic replay saving and archiving with easy search from a website

Game/replay archive

Probably many more things that I can’t recall at this moment