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Hello GOG Community,

We have some heart-breaking news to share: Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and Warcraft II will be leaving the GOG store on December 13th, 2024.

As many of you know, at GOG, we believe that games should live forever. It’s not just about preserving them—it’s about making sure these timeless classics remain accessible, updated, and playable on modern systems. That’s exactly what the GOG Preservation Program was created for. But, even with our best efforts and dedication to game preservation, sometimes things don’t go as we’d hoped.

Seeing these masterpieces leave our store is tough, but it also serves as another reminder of why our mission at GOG is so important. With that in mind, we’ve decided to update one aspect of the GOG Preservation Program’s policy:

Going forward, even if a game is no longer available for sale on GOG, as part of the GOG Preservation Program, it will continue to be maintained and updated by us, ensuring it remains compatible with modern and future systems.

We're incredibly proud of our work on both Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and Warcraft II, bringing them back to life after decades of unavailability and introducing several improvements to ensure the best possible experience, as close to the original as possible.

Although we’ll soon no longer be able to offer these games in our store, anyone who purchased them before they were removed will still enjoy the most compatible, high-quality versions, guaranteed by the GOG Preservation Program.

And because GOG is DRM-free, you’ll have lifetime access to your Offline Installers. That means, even though these games are being delisted, you’ll still have them safely stored in your library forever, ready to play whenever you want. This is what these titles—and you as gamers—deserve.

To all of you who support our mission of preserving video game history—thank you. It’s not just about the games themselves; it’s about the journey we’ve all shared as gamers. We’re honored to continue this journey with you.

With appreciation,
The GOG Team

Please note:
If you want to buy the Warcraft I & II Bundle and keep them forever in your library, you can use the checkout code: MakeWarcraftLiveForever

The discount code works on 2 USD, 2 EUR, 1.5 GBP, or 8 PLN off, only on the Warcraft I & II Bundle, when entered at the checkout. The code works only for the listed currencies, which – if at a different location – can be easily changed at the bottom of our page.

Each user can only use the code once.
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00063: Hahaha... there goes GoGs preservation program! Making games last forever. Emphasis was on "forever" in your marketing phrase.

As for Blizzard: "Piracy is a service problem"
- Gabe Newell

I'll leave it at that.
Now, we make them live forever :) And that holds true - they are preserved in libraries of everyone has them from GOG (and still can get them) + you can always back up your Offline Installers + we'll make them live, because as we've mentioned in the announcement, we decided to commit to maintain and update every game in the Program, even if it's no longer available for sale on the platform.
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ssokolow: While I'm pretty good with WC1 and WC2 (I've got both the WC1+WC2 and the WC2 Battle.Net Battle Chests from back in the day, plus the GOG releases, and I'll never forget what they are), what I'd really like to see preserved more generally is the store pages, with all the descriptions, screenshots, and "use this mod to fix the flaws-by-design" reviews.
It's something more difficult than it seems, but it's definitely something we're looking at.