Warcraft 3 Legacy CD Key removal - disallowing access for grandfathered physical media from play on battle.net: Difference between revisions
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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}} | 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}} | ||
=== | ===Blizzard-Activision'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 | The company only provided the forum news https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24241844/original-warcraft-iii-keys-expire-on-november-21 - in terms of response to the issue, many technical support agents will refuse to assist in redemption of any grandfatherable non-redeemed physical CD keys. | ||
==Consumer response== | ==Consumer response== | ||
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1 - https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24241844/original-warcraft-iii-keys-expire-on-november-21 | 1 - https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24241844/original-warcraft-iii-keys-expire-on-november-21 | ||
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