They changed the old game for those who already owned it. And people still defend digital as the way of the future...

It get's much, much worse:

So here's how it's going:

Blizz will not refund you for this piece of garbage game

Blizz banning anyone who tells people how and where to get a refund for the game

Blizz changing up the game's policy, just so they can make big claims on the next DOTA or next big fan made game and reap all the rewards

Blizz have completely removed the ability to play the original WC3, that WAS up on their battle.net client. Now anyone who wants to play OG W3 now has to play Reforged, just with the OG graphics, but now with missing features and the new policy change

Blizz are practically dead to me at this point, it's a fucking travesty that big publishers like this go down such a shitty path. Bioware, Bethesda and Blizzard, the trifecta of BBB.

It didn't even take them until Blizzcon to f**k up again this time it's like the company has gone mad as if driven insane by their DOTA 2 defeat and the failure of their own ventures into MOBA, the part I can't get over is where they say if you create something you have to comply if they need you to develop it like what? It's like something from out of those dystopian movies.

Yup, you're right the download is 29.5Gb. That's some next level bullshit to block out people from the original game! I think I do have the original CDs somewhere still.

Remember this? https://www.polygon.com/2019/2/16/18226581/activision-blizzard-layoffs-executive-pay-unions

Did you know that, reportedly, a chunk of those 800 were from quality assurance?
Crazy huh? Who would have guessed those guys had a important job right?

Definitely not Activision excutives it seems.

What I figured. Which one can just ignore, an empty threat because they can't exactly make you do anything. If they don't like it really all they can do is ban your account from their online service.

If I understand correctly, they took down the original game and it's no longer possible to get it from legitimate sources? If so, once again it's up to the pirates to preserve the original game.

I didn't follow the development very closely, so I can't speak to whether they overpromised.

I am playing through Reforged's campaign though and it is the same top notch game with better graphics and a few other minor improvements. Which is sort of what I felt I was promised?

same, people just love to bash

Wut? If you only plan to play the campaign, ok. But they removed tons of features, made false advertasing and killed the original Warcraft 3.