You all know that this year marks the 30th anniversary of the premiere of Warcraft. Three decades since this first game in a saga that has left countless legendary moments among all its titles, canonical and inspired. Because at first it was about real-time strategy, building and gathering resources, although later it became a problem. MMO of which there were few. This is without counting the famous letters from Hearth. Well now we have a problem GoG.
Precisely, GoG It is the digital PC store where you can find more and better quality games if what you want is not to depend on third-party servers and specific authorizations from the seller. The store founded by CD Projekt RED (yes, those of The Witcher) continues to deliver its games sin DRM to download and run them whenever we want. And he has always had among his games for sale some of the Blizzard.
Warcraft and Blizzard scare GoG
The fact is that Blizzard made a controversial decision regarding the first two Warcraft which are sold in GoG and that these are original versions of the classics that we can use in both Windows 10 and Windows 11. But of course, just a few days ago those from Irvine launched a remastered 30th anniversary edition and they didn't like the fact that these two original versions continued to sell. So I made a radical decision.
This decision is none other than remove from GoG he pack with the first two Warcraft from Blizzard. The titles as they were were released in the 90s, without strange additions or remasters, and which you can currently buy (again) for 13.69 dollars. And we say it now because tomorrow it may be too late. Concretely, this will begin to be on December 13, when both versions will disappear forever from the store page.
As we tell you, this pack This is a compilation of the first two games with their respective additional content (the second, basically) but with the original engine, graphics and gameplay from 30 years ago. It is therefore not a question of remastering Blizzard launched just a few days ago. Although you are probably thinking about what will happen with our purchase if we buy it already or if we do it these days.
Blizzar will continue to support these versions
If you have already purchased it pack you have nothing to fear because so much GoG as Blizzard announced that support for these versions would not end, even though they are no longer sold in the CD Projekt RED store. So on that side, zero problem because these two Warcraft They will still appear in our library for download. But in case anyone regrets it, it's best to download them to have them with the rest of your purchases.
Furthermore, this decision is curious since Warcraft I and II belong to the famous GoG Preservation Program which aims to ensure that older games or games developed for operating systems that no longer exist continue to run smoothly on current PCs. What will BLizzard want to do with it now?
