Warcraft 3 Legacy CD Key removal - disallowing access for grandfathered physical media from play on battle.net: Difference between revisions
Utilizing their newsletter as a result: https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24241844/original-warcraft-iii-keys-expire-on-november-21 |
Added context in regards to the Blizzard news article and a brief summary of Warcraft 3 community response. |
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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
{{Ph-I-B}} | On October 21st, 2025 - Activision-Blizzard made a news page regarding the discontinuation of redemption of legacy Warcraft 3 CD keys from physical purchases and discs. {{Ph-I-B}} | ||
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{{Ph-I-I}} | The incident involves a timeline where they provided a one month window with no real notice beyond a short notice on their forum in regards to Warcraft 3: Reforged. There was no notice beyond some smaller content creators informing the issue as a general warning. No notice was provided via other social media.{{Ph-I-I}} | ||
===[Company]'s response=== | ===[Company]'s response=== | ||
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The company only provided the forum news https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24241844/original-warcraft-iii-keys-expire-on-november-21 | |||
==Consumer response== | ==Consumer response== | ||
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Most of the consumer responses from this timeline was providing discouraging statements, many of which expressed disdain for the lack of grandfathering from prior physically purchased products. While other services exist to allow for compatible online play, many are saddened that they cannot utilize the Activision-Blizzard services for online play and redownload. | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
1 - https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24241844/original-warcraft-iii-keys-expire-on-november-21 | |||
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