Old download links.

[Verticor]

Some dude at the Reforged forum just posted these.

Seems to be the links to the old installers. The links just aren't available on the official page, but are still active, apparently. I'm downloading the installers myself right now. So far no 30GB worth of bloatware, from what I can tell. Just the original couple of gigs, seemingly.

Just in case some people might be interested. Dunno how long they'll be available, though.
https://us.battle.net/download/getLegacy?product=WAR3&locale=enUS&os=WIN
https://us.battle.net/download/getLegacy?product=W3XP&locale=enUS&os=WIN

 

[Verticor]

Well, I just installed the whole "thing". It seems to be what we had right before Reforged.

 

[Anaxie]

Well, I just installed the whole "thing". It seems to be what we had right before Reforged.

that doesnt help us whats the patch version

 

[WyndKing]

you can't play bnet games there, can you?

 

[Messire]

It will auto-update if you try

 

[Verticor]

that doesnt help us whats the patch version

Right. I forgot. My TFT installation says 1.27.0.52240

 

[Verticor]

you can't play bnet games there, can you?

Nope. Whenever I click it, it tries to install an update and exits.

 

[Anaxie]

Right. I forgot. My TFT installation says 1.27.0.52240

Alright so that doesny help anyone whos been playing most hive content the past few years. Most custom canpaigns require 1.29 /1.30

 

[Verticor]

It will auto-update if you try

Mine just... exits.

Alright so that doesny help anyone whos been playing most hive content the past few years. Most custom canpaigns require 1.29 /1.30

Well, I did a fast google, and those patches seem to be floating around out there.

 

[EnterpriseReforged]

Mine just... exits.

Well, I did a fast google, and those patches seem to be floating around out there.

yes, you can google the patches and download them then actually get on bnet, for how long is anyone's guess but it does work

 

[Juno Slade]

Quick tip, if you replace enUS with whichever other tag (plPL for Poland for example) then that'll actually get you that language's version (Repace WIN witb MAC for the Mac versions, though no guarantee that'll work with modern systems)
That doesn't work with *every* language, put in Japanese and nothing happens, so not sure if Blizzard axed those links or if they just never *had* installer links and were disc only or something.