Who knows? Maybe Warcraft 3 Reforged is trying its own version of a No Man’s Sky reputation repair. This is right up there with “ Diablo Immortal gets a PC beta” in terms of moves I didn’t expect from Blizzard this year. Blizzard also says there will be multiple updates this year, so this won’t be the last such patch that Warcraft 3 Reforged gets. There have also been some balance changes to various maps in the Campaign mode, which is even more of a surprise to me than Blizzard making a patch at all. You’ll need to win five qualifying matches to begin Ranked Play. There will be eight ranks in total - Unranked, Combatant, Challenger, Rival, Duelist, Elite, Gladiator and Champion - and rankings and the ladder will reset at the end of each season. There will even be a special MMR for Random, so if you play Random a lot that’ll affect your MMR too. Ranked Play will involve separate MMR - matchmaking rating, very much not Measles, Mumps and Rubella, that’s a vaccine - for each campaign/race, so you could have a better MMR and thus harder matches for your Forsaken than your Humans or Night Elves. The 1.33.0 patch notes provide some more detail about how this will all work. The launch reaction was so poor that Blizzard wound up offering refunds for the game. These were all removed because Warcraft 3 Reforged was designed to work on modern architecture, and I would say players will be excited to see return but honestly I’m not sure that many people are still playing to get excited about it.

Not only is this patch to Warcraft 3 Reforged interesting for even existing, it’s also interesting in that it returns several features that were present in the original version of Warcraft 3, including Ranked Play, Leaderboards, and even Player Profiles. The first of multiple updates coming this year for Warcraft III: Reforged.

It’s a surprising move considering Blizzard’s recent shift away from RTS games and the departure of many of their RTS-focused employees to join Frost Giant Studios, but now it appears that Warcraft 3 Reforged isn’t quite as abandoned as it seemed. Now it appears that Blizzard didn’t forget about the game, because patch 1.33.0 is now being tested on the PTR. We haven’t heard much about the game since, really - it is of course still out there, but the internet moved on to hate something else in due time. It’s not a secret that the launch for Warcraft 3 Reforged didn’t go as smoothly as it could have.

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