As I already said in our discord - it's an overreaction. SC2 had something similar for at least 9 years already(even warcraft 3 had something like that before reforged, just not to this extent). Barely anyone screamed about it, people still make maps for it too. Don't remember map makers leaving SC2, neither arcade being dead, like prophets from the internet say about Reforged.
There's even a thread on Hive from almost 10 years ago that is literally the same as current threads about ToS in Reforged:
https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/blizzard-owns-your-maps.170065/Quote:
Blizzard clearly isn't risking another DOTA getting away from them
I really like how someone makes this situation even more absurd to other people by using "Dota" in this context. I only remember... 3(?) maps that got their standalone versions. 2 of them are not really popular, if you ask me.
Especially if we compare them to Dota. It is: Element TD, Legion TD & Dota. Around 18 years of warcraft 3 and only 3 maps. I never heard about other examples. Maybe I'm mistaken, feel free to tell me other examples.
Quote:
Buried away in Warcraft 3: Reforged's Terms of Service
Literally 2 clicks on their website to reach
Custom Game Acceptable Use Policy.
Exaggeration is the most useful tool in the hands of people who want to make someone look bad.
I'm not defending Reforged, there's a lot of reasons to hate it. Like how they removed a lot of functions from the Battle.net, or people with only classic CD-KEYs not being able to play campaign, not to mention custom games, etc. But exaggerating & spreading lies about Reforged(like being unable to play offline at all) - doesn't make you better than them. Nor it's the right thing to do.