Warcraft 3: Reforged's 2.0 patch temporarily blocked access to the original RTS, with players who've owned the classic version for decades told that their license isn't valid
Nov. 15, 2024Thankfully, it’s not an intentional change
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Others shared similar tales, withone sayingthat “the CD [keys] of WC3 [Reign of Chaos] and [The Frozen Throne] have been on my account since forever,” andanother notingthat they’ve “owned the original game for almost 20 years,” and never needed to pay for Reforged to continue playing it with its classic visuals. “Surely this is a bug, and not Blizzard’s way of telling me that I’m no longer able to do so, right?” they question.
Thankfully, they’re exactly right, as Blizzard acknowledged the problem on Twitter before long: “Our Warcraft 3 European servers are running into some login issues. We’re also aware of players who have original Warcraft and are unable to log in,” it explains. “We’re working on a fix for these issues.”
Perhaps it’s because launching the original Warcraft 3 requires the Reforged client, allowing a problem to seemingly spread from the new version to the old one, but regardless, it mercifully seems that the situation has since improved, with somenow sayingthat it’s been fixed and they can “play without any problems.” Either way, even temporarily making an enemy of the classic fans isn’t exactly a great start for Reforged 2.0 – here’s hoping that that’s the end of its problems.
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