Warcraft III: Reforged

Reforged launched January 28, 2020, missing nearly everything shown at BlizzCon 2018 — reimagined cutscenes, ladder, clans, custom campaigns — and broke the original client by forcibly merging it into the new one. Blizzard offered no-questions-asked refunds as the backlash exploded. A Bloomberg report later revealed the game was shipped knowingly unfinished to avoid pre-order refunds, and the Classic Games team was disbanded eight months later. Years of silence followed; a new team eventually added ranked play, and patch 2.0 (late 2024) delivered long-overdue quality-of-life fixes — far too little, far too late.

• Launched missing promised features — reimagined cutscenes, ranked ladder, clans, custom campaigns — while a forced client merge degraded the original Warcraft III for owners who never bought the remake.
• Blizzard offered no-questions-asked refunds beyond its normal policy within days of launch, acknowledging players might feel it 'does not provide the experience they wanted.'
• Bloomberg reporting revealed the game shipped knowingly unfinished under financial pressure; the promised 'new team dedicated to updating' Reforged was disbanded eight months later and most fixes never materialized.
• Ranked play finally arrived years late via a new team, and patch 2.0 (late 2024) added real QoL improvements — but key promised features like the reforged cutscenes remain undelivered.