Warcraft III: Reforged gets Forsaken Kingdom and now needs a connection

GOCDKEYS TeamUpdated 14 Sep 20265 min read

Forsaken Kingdom is on Battle.net, but Reforged now requires a connection and has lost LAN. The only Reforged offer we see: €22.40 with fees, no expansion.

Blizzard used BlizzCon on 12 September to announce Warcraft III Reforged: Forsaken Kingdom, then put it on sale the same day. It's the first new Warcraft III campaign in more than 20 years, PC only, sold through the Battle.net shop. The patch that shipped alongside it also changed how Reforged itself works, and that part has gone down very badly.

Three chapters with the Forsaken

According to Blizzard, Forsaken Kingdom contains a prologue and three campaign chapters centred on the Forsaken. It adds a new neutral hero, a Forsaken paladin, and tells a story that runs from the fall of Lordaeron to the start of World of Warcraft. To play it you need Reforged, and with the new patch, a connection.

You can buy it on its own or in a Combo pack with the base game. There's also a Warcraft Forever Collection, available for a limited time until 11 January, which includes Reforged and Forsaken Kingdom plus items for World of Warcraft: Forever. We haven't verified Battle.net's prices for any of those, so we're not going to quote them.

Reforged now needs an internet connection, even for the campaign

Since the patch, the Reforged client wants a permanent internet connection. That includes the single-player campaign, and LAN play has gone altogether.

Blizzard gave no explanation for it in the patch notes, and the reaction from players has been negative.

Reforged didn't have much goodwill to spend in the first place. At launch it averaged 60 on OpenCritic from 36 reviews, only 9% of critics recommended it, and the site filed it under "Weak". Blizzard later released a large update to fix it.

Offline and LAN still work in the classic client

If you want to play with no connection, or with friends on the same network, the classic Warcraft III client still does both. It comes bundled when you buy Reforged, and it kept offline play and LAN.

The original Warcraft III is no longer sold separately, so buying Reforged is now the only way to get the classic version as well.

Buying Reforged today, without the expansion

Fair warning: there's very little to compare here. When we looked on 14 September at around 05:50 UTC, there was exactly one live offer for Reforged. Gamivo has it at €20.69 with coupon GCDKGamivo (€22.40 with fees), a Battle.net gift, standard edition, global region. That can change at any time.

Gamivo 3.9 (50.4k)

Coupon

GCDKGamivo -4% Copied!

€

22.45

€

23.29

How to get this priceHow to get

Store Gamivo

Region Global

Product type Battle.net Gift

Edition Standard

Fees +€

1.74

Be clear about what that gift is: Warcraft III: Reforged, and nothing else. Forsaken Kingdom isn't in it, and for now the expansion is sold on Battle.net only.

With a single offer there's nothing to hold it up against, so our history is the better guide. The median for Reforged keys is €28.74 and the lowest we've recorded is €12.99, on 21 March, both without fees. Gamivo's base price sits 28% below that median, and in 314 days of tracking the game has only been cheaper on 49 of them.

So if you don't own Reforged and you want it for the classic client, or with the expansion in mind, today's price is decent by the game's own standards. New offers turn up on our buy Warcraft III: Reforged key page, and you can set a price alert if you'd rather hold out for something nearer that €12.99 low.