Biggest thinga are IMO save/load for online games and also a rollback of the campaign changes from 1.33.
Though, thinking about the latter: Fucking hell, Blizzard. Fucking. Hell. It should never have come to a situation such as this in the first place!
The three biggest (note, not only ) points
-It was patched over previous versions. You can’t play the non-reforged version anymore
-It removed features the previous version had. In particular networking
-It released with desync issues that would randomly drop players from the game. Wc3 doesn’t support rejoin so this basically killed maps depending on how severely they were affected (and note, it even affected normal maps. But custom maps suffered tremendously from this)
Like just given those three points: Why don’t you understand?
The fact you even say that custom games improved just makes me think you’re being dishonest for some reason…because it wasn’t some secret or even rare occurrence. 90% of custom maps were suffering it.
So the other comment pointed out plenty of things I was unaware of which was helpful especially since I admitted that I didn’t understand what I was missing considering the obvious lack of a player base now. I’m only replying to this comment because I didn’t expect to be called dishonest in a condescending way.
Regarding the lack of the original version, I was aware of that and while it was a bummer, I didn’t consider that to be a game breaking issue to me.
I legitimately didn’t know it removed features and until reading the other reply and watching the linked videos I wasn’t aware of a lot of the changes or even the existence of features like rejoining matches. If I ever got disconnected from a match I just played something else even back in the day. I don’t remember ever having an option to rejoin a match, unless that’s specifically a ladder games thing. I don’t recall getting disconnected from many games though, but I know it did happen. Definitely not enough for me to have been upset about it.
I’m assuming that’s what you’re referring to by missing network features because it still has multiplayer and I’m pretty sure it still has the chat lobbies although I never really used those back then and I don’t use them now either.
As far as me saying the custom games were improved I’d say you’re the dishonest one if you’re saying that’s not the case. They definitely improved custom games and while I don’t know all the changes, an easy one to point out would be the saved ranking system that exists for line tower wars now. That definitely didn’t exist back in the day. The other custom games I played that had reforged versions also had improvements although off the top of my head I can’t think of what those specifics were. They also improved the download speeds for maps in the custom game lobbies. That used to take forever back in the day and I remember people being kicked if they started downloading because nobody wanted to wait. I remember having to download maps from 3rd party sites to get around that.
I don’t play ladder matches so I wasn’t aware of those issues and I only played the reforged campaign a bit with the majority of my time in custom games where I had a blast going back to those old games. That’s why I was confused and understood there was clearly a disconnect in what I experienced and others had issues with.