• Virkkunen@kbin.social
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    How is this a trend? It happened with two games and you can still play one of them (CSGO).

    EDIT: it happened with 4-ish games, actually, and the Blizzard games are the only ones we cannot play anymore.

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        Same with the gta 3 trilogy, but R* backtracked after the backlash for the awful remasters

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          1 year ago

          In the context of remasters, the same thing happened with Dark Souls 1 and its remaster.

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      How do you mean you can still play CSGO? There are no official servers and even installing and launching it is not straight forward at all? I’d akin that to saying you can still play Vanilla WoW and point to private servers, which is not what anyone means.

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        1 year ago

        You can absolutely play CSGO and it only takes a few clicks from the CS2 entry in steam. You still have community servers, which were always a big thing in CS.

        You cannot play Overwatch 1 or old Warcraft 3 at all, doesn’t matter how many clicks you try.

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          Eh. If you count CSGO when there are no official servers I think you need to count WC3 unofficial servers as well. There are workarounds to playing old WC3 online, just not through battle.net.

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            Steam still connects you to custom servers, and Valve still allows you to download the server hosting software. The part that went offline- rather, moved to CS2, was the matchmaking client.

            The workarounds to WC3 require you to leave Blizzard designed software to third party support. I don’t recall WC3 ever having matchmaking, but the server browser and hosted game list were taken completely.

            So, not for lack of trying on Blizzard’s part.

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          I was under the impression that they’re all on Burning Crusade now and soon Wrath of the Lich King, but I don’t really follow that scene anymore. But even Blizz vanilla WoW wasn’t truly vanilla but I guess that’s pretty moot.