![]() ShieldBattery already adds features and fixes bugs on the existing game client, with no real dependency on Blizzard's servers (outside of them verifying that you've purchased whatever graphics/sounds/interface that you're trying to use, which even a full reimplementation of the client would need to do). There is an open source project around BW (OpenBW) but afaik it probably wouldn't hold up if they threatened that project. What we need is a documented cleanroom reverse engineered open source clone of BW, which would put the power to fix any problems in the community's hands. The PR hit is apparently worth it, because it gets people to move to sequels. ![]() They weren't really taking care of the game prior to remastered, either (pain to even set it up, needed dodgy launchers on >Windows XP, lots of modern routers refused to work even with port forwarding), and there's more and more precedent for companies just turning off servers (eg: ) that even singleplayer games are unplayable.
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