How Companies Celebrate Warcraft III

How companies celebrate @Warcraft3 20th anniversary: Left: @Frost_Giant Right: @Blizzard_Ent sent a Cease & Desist to Modder Retera, author of the WarSmashModEngine asking him to shut down his emulator immediately' Source: His YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=79r8g7... Happy 20th anniversary to the GOAT 🎂 👑 🥂🥂 Together, let's raise a glass to Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, first released on July 3, 2002. A few words from our game director, @TimCampbellRTS, who was WC3's lead campaign designer: Wow, today is the 20th anniversary of the original WC3! The memories of making it are still so fresh in my mind! Thank you to all of my old teammates who helped bring it to life -- and to the community, content creators, and players who have kept it going strong for two decades! WC3 is a highlight of my career and I'm grateful to have contributed to a game that meant so much to so many people. The original WC3 can never be replaced, but we hope to honor its legacy. Lok'tar Ogar! ACTIVISION BLIZZARD ACTIVISION BLIZZARD KING HETERA, It's more than 10 years that you have made an unauthorized use of the MK copyrighted work entitled Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (the "Work") in the preparation of a WC3 mod entitled Retera. Add versions all rights to the Work, that published on July 12, 2002, and has been registered copyright "... We are contacting you as a result of your unauthorized use of the Work on your mod and we believe you may be using it to your own benefit. ... Blizzard ENTERTAINMENT, INC. Legal Team Regards to this message are included above. Please do not reply to this message. Activision Blizzard and its affiliated companies is an affiliated company in the ...

The meme contrasts Frost Giant Studios’ celebratory Warcraft III anniversary post with Blizzard’s alleged cease-and-desist notice against modder Retera. The joke is that Frost Giant treats the game and its community warmly, while Blizzard is portrayed as celebrating its legacy by threatening an emulator/mod creator. It is used as a sarcastic reaction to a company handling its own fan community badly. EN: The meme contrasts Frost Giant Studios’ celebratory Warcraft III anniversary post with Blizzard’s alleged cease-and-desist notice against modder Retera. The joke is that Frost Giant treats the game and its community warmly, while Blizzard is portrayed as celebrating its legacy by threatening an emulator/mod creator. It is used as a sarcastic reaction to a company handling its own fan community badly.

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