• Virkkunen@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You can absolutely play CSGO and it only takes a few clicks from the CS2 entry in steam. You still have community servers, which were always a big thing in CS.

    You cannot play Overwatch 1 or old Warcraft 3 at all, doesn’t matter how many clicks you try.

    • ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com
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      1 year ago

      Eh. If you count CSGO when there are no official servers I think you need to count WC3 unofficial servers as well. There are workarounds to playing old WC3 online, just not through battle.net.

      • Ender of Games@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Steam still connects you to custom servers, and Valve still allows you to download the server hosting software. The part that went offline- rather, moved to CS2, was the matchmaking client.

        The workarounds to WC3 require you to leave Blizzard designed software to third party support. I don’t recall WC3 ever having matchmaking, but the server browser and hosted game list were taken completely.

        So, not for lack of trying on Blizzard’s part.