I'm saying Battle.net 2.0 could repair that but he says the current BlizzEnt is an evil company and it would be probably better for someone else [god(s)?] to fix it so I suggested a utopia where the Hive or a philanthropist would acquire the Warcraft III rights.
I'll explain
Let's say Activision Blizzard gives us a new update, in this update all problems associated with hosting & channel bots are gone completely. If this happens & does not go free to play, the population count on battle net will drastically drop meaning less players to play with online in return we all get what we wanted to see hosted games by players once again but with a lesser community.
As a map author I find it hard to believe that players would purchase it since there are more popular free to play model games out there. You can argue with this however you like but take note that LAN is supported & players who obtain the game for free would just flock over on something like Game Ranger to continue to play. The only backdrop to Game Ranger is that it doesn't monitor for 3rd party software.
There's thousands of people who wouldn't to pay for it, I find this difficult to work with because I would rather play retail servers, however there is a major problem with retail servers, a few examples are those who use 3rd party software cannot be permanently banned while using Garena or ENT, remember that these 2 are shown to work on retail battle net servers. Anyone on retail servers that uses 3rd party software gets detected & eventually will be permanently banned. If you want to continue to play retail servers you must then re-purchase the product for a new c-d key. Garena or ENT on the other hand get a free pass with the advantage of using 3rd party software without being banned & without purchasing it at all
while still connecting to retail servers.
Honestly with all of this going on including the hosting bots, unless you want to play for ladder seasons, you would have to be really stupid to buy this game. I purchased the game (along time ago...far far away...) but I cannot enjoy the online community because of these problems. For what it's worth I only see value in ladder seasons which I could really careless for as I much rather enjoy custom games, so do you find the value of this game for ladder games? I'll leave that up to you to decide, for me it's not worth it & even I who paid for the game will admit to this.
If Activision Blizzard takes the wrong turn & decides to disable LAN with a update (I've seen this happen to games) they would be in for a wild shit storm.
If Activision Blizzard were to make a update that follows hives recommendations of a update, there is a slight possibility that it could work as a pay to purchase model but I fear the worst of things would happen
#1 I could see a increase of popularity for the Warcraft 3 (wait there's more...)
#2 Increasing popularity drifts the attention of Activision Blizzard towards Warcraft 3 (wait for it...)
#3 The problem (they may go out of their way to update the game how they want it) creating updates we don't like & completely sabotaging the game we all enjoy
#4 There is absolutely no guarantee that they will listen & will depend on pure luck to get a great classic team together
#5 There is a less chance of it becoming the Warcraft 3 dream if it's not made free to play.
If Activision Blizzard were to make a update that follows hives recommendations of a update with a free to play model, I could see a better vision of this game.
Free to play games attract players, Activision Blizzard can use ads on Warcraft 3 (like they do now...) to pull players towards their other games for those who don't know about their other games (which cost money) will lead to $profit$ then everyone is happy. That's why they say "advertisements" pay for the cost, the ads will pay for Wc3 servers.
