Warcraft 1 & 2 "Remasters" (and Reforge "update") are an AI ridden sloppy mess

Mostly play Starcraft. I still suck at Warcraft III, despite having played quite a bit back in the day.

I gave up on Blizzard a long time ago.

The original Warcraft 1 and 2 hold up pretty well. Warcraft 1's controls are a little archaic but it's not a difficult or very fast paced game, if you know what you are doing, at least. The originals are on sale on Gog.

I think Blizzard pretty much died to me after the early days of Overwatch and after WOW Legion, they just stopped caring afterwards IMO.

You would think they learned they lesson from Warcraft 3 Deformed, which I have called a "back alley abortion" in my refund request, after stupidly prepurchasing it in 2019, and then seeing the finished "product" on release. But no... the small indie developer Blizzard is at it again in full force.

If this released on Steam then they would have gotten my money
Simply because I NEED to play Warcraft 3 again, and I'm not going to be doing it through the Blizzard launcher, or at the very least, not exclusively through the Blizzard launcher.

The remastering of WC1&2 is lazy if it's done through AI, BUT it's still simply better than the originals crunchy visuals, and makes that I'd actually play the first and second game.

I don't even care about the use of AI. If the result was good, that's honestly what matters most to me as a consumer. The thing is though - they all look cheap Flash games with the new art style. And the cutscenes, like the one in Warcraft 1 where the two Orcs sit at a table, they didn't even bother animating it in the remaster. They just upscaled the single image and called it a day, how lazy can you get?

I wish they would give it the Diablo II treatment. Completely revamped graphics that keep the original tone and theme. It seems like all they are doing is bumping up the resolution.

Where's the never have option

I registered the game keys for Warcraft III and Frozen Throne which were included in the physical Battlechest Edition on the battlenet servers eons ago. Just at the time Reforged reared its ugly head I wanted to re-install the game on a whim. As it was no longer possible to download the game files separately from Reforged I torrented Warcraft III as I hadn't the physical media at hand.