In channel Classic Games there is a user with the name "Read-My-Profile" and in his profile, he gives link to a private wacraft 2 server and specify "It's 100% free" "Tired of having no players to play on GOG?" "Join us now!"

You shouldn't let this happen, please warn him/ban his ip....

Thank you

Good luck with that, I hope it's Tupac doing this. If you really tick him off, you'll be lucky to have a server to play on at all lol. I'd just leave him be and let him alert people of the much superior version of War2. GoG gains nothing from people playing on the server anyway. It's actually a service to GoG imo that they dont even need to spend a dime to support and the end result is a better experience for the player. Now, if it were a SUBSCRIPTION based thing, then I could see your point. Other than that, I find nothing wrong with people telling others about a better place to play the game they just bought.

An even better idea would be for GoG to simply combine forces with the RU community rather than going at it as two different entities. We have a lot more experience in modding war2 than they do both on the client level AND the server level. I could only imagine the cool stuff we could do if the sourcecode were to be released. I dont think they have access to the source anyway but maybe thats a possibility they could work out with Blizzard.

You might need to report this to Blizz, I'm not sure GOG has much to do with Battle.net multiplayer.

I would tend to say this is likely the case and if it is, then there is absolutely no hope of ever changing it because the Blizzard servers have been empty for well over 10yrs now specifically BECAUSE of the RU server. So this just goes to prove that Blizzard does not care who hosts the war2 game so long as they dont charge for it without first entering into an agreement with them for royalties (which I'm sure GoG has done).

That's not the problem, this will only split up the community. What makes the game a gem is being able to play online and have fun, not community drama. Western audience is wary of Ru because they associate it to Russia, with GoG they feel safe and they actually keep their cd since a lot of people lost the game with years or gave up on seeing a lot of people decided to move to War2RU.

Personally, I am in that boat, I just thought the game is not played anymore so I stopped playing. I never heard of War2RU until GoG release, so to me, it felt like a private boys club. Sure I joined it, got an account on it. But my goal is trying to have fun and relearning the game. On War2RU people just like to shit on others, this is nothing that will help for healthy community growth.

I understand the War2RU Client has evolved to be better on modern PC but nothing says with a healthy player base GoG can't touch the game. Yes combining it would be great but the reality is War2RU is a non licensed pirated version, a great one yes. But nothing that will grow actually grow. All this quarreling will only lead at one thing, being back to square one, lack of players.

The idea of 2 places to play War2 has been tried multiple times in the past and it always results in the same thing. Everyone congregates to the one server that has the most players regardless of the attitudes of those players. It happened to Blizzard (when people moved to RU), it happened to several other US based servers (including my own). Two different places to play war2 simply does not work. One of them will eventually die and it wont be RU. For quite a few years RU was in the hands of someone named Ldir who was very toxic to the community. But since iL has taken over many years ago, RU has really flourished and I support him in pretty much anything he tries to do where as previously I tried to change that. I was only successful in getting new people to administrate RU but to me, that was a win. The one thing that War2Combat lacks is NOT players. It's advertising. Something GoG may be able to provide.

Yea then hopefully Blizzard take legal action

I beg to differ. Classic Battle battle net always divided players by servers. US East, US West, Europe, Asia (And other foreign country being blocked, KR, CN, TW. ) How War2RU came to exist? I was not there for it, but due to it existing I just had stop playing the game since nobody was around on Battle net.

GoG release has been advertised by Blizzard, and is marketing RU will never be able to achieve, there's a real chance here, and even RU admit it on it's from. Go read on the main page of RU's forums, you'll see I'm not telling you salads.

Some see this as an opportunity to grow their own dying community, while some see it as a chance to rebuild a community. While both are valued, it's not by owning new players and backstabbing them in comp stomp for not being good enough they will stick around.

Read-My-Profile is desperate and instead of investing himself on GOG he publicise his other server that will split people away, to be honest this is a dick move and they should not let this happen!

Never happen. This would be like MS trying to take legal action on KDE or Wine for using a Windows'ish feeling OS and windows applications. That isnt how opensource projects work. It's pointless to try to go after an opensource project for many obvious reasons. Everything War2Combat (RU) has done has been 100% opensource, from the client all the way down to the server.

1.If that person got orginal key he can do with his profile what he want
2. blizzard dont care w2 since 2004? we got now 2019

I suggest join us, its better play game with more people than sitting on gog server while it is empty and there is no games right?


There is 40? ppl online now
http://server.war2.ru/status/

You can sit on channel or go and play

It already has more people then RU. Just saying, and at least WAR2USA gateway does not act like you RU users do.

what u mean "WAR2USA gateway does not act like you RU users do"?
p.s.people from war2usa are from ru, and they are playing in both server

I see, so you're mode of thinking is that if 20 players who act one way join another group who act another way, then you have 40 people that all act the same way? Is that what you're getting at? Cuz I fail to follow that logic. If you're trying to say toxicity results in loss of players, then I suggest you fire up ANY competitive (CoD, CS, Overwatch, SC2, etc) game and try your hand at it and see how you're treated when it's discovered that you suck after you've entered a game that is clearly comprised of all pro players.

There is nothing different about the RU players than you would find in any other competive type game. If you cant handle that, stick to the scenerios in War2 and Solitare for other games.

These "War2USA" channels you talk about, where do you think the RU players originate from. The didnt come from Checkers online.

I don’t believe there is a toxicity involved. In fact I play all 3 servers and I have fun in all of them. Before battle net was around I played on kali, then bnet, then 24-7, then RU. One thing I note is that RU was created when bnet was failing (it saved Warcraft 2).

I enjoy all communities, I am a young dad and I just play to have fun. Doesn’t matter the server. Each has their aspect and strength, battle net is perfect for new players to play each other and even returning vets to sharpen skills. rU and usa accept all kinds of players but are generally played by intermediate:pro players.

Doesn’t have to be a bad thing, thibk of any server as a win for Warcraft 2