This feels like that time Warcraft 3 was murdered.
We are on lemmy, do not repost twitter/x thanks.
Seriously, I’m so tired of this shit.
There’s definitely an exception to be made for linking announcements, but my personal solution is simple:
Don’t follow the link
Hmm, I have some nostalgia for these games, but I’m not sure they’re worth playing today. That said, I may want to play them at some point.
Why can’t Blizzard stop being terrible?
Online play has been broken for a long time for Warcraft 2 on gog. I complained like 2 years ago that they never sent me a code, and they said they were aware of the problem and were working on it. I complained again and they never answered.
I’m all for game preservation, but gog is kind of a shitty company. They can convince me otherwise by having better customer service (or by developing a launcher that actually works).
To each their own, I suppose. I love GOGs efforts, and I love the convenience of being able to purchase old games there and know they are pre-patched (sometimes with unofficial patches), made compatible with modern systems and play-ready. Their launcher/store is whatever, but I don’t think I’ve ran into any game where it’s required to run it to launch.
Bad customer service is unfortunate, however. I’ve never personally had to deal with them but that does suck.
Honestly I will likely continue to support them anyways - despite my grievances against them, they are still doing a better job at preservation than their competitors.
