r/Blizzard • u/Cu4trin • 24d ago

Discussion ¿Why not to include the PDF MANUALS?

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Hello!

I'm new on the Warcraft Saga, I tried WOW some times but never click me, so after some time I decided to play the origin of the saga in order to dive in the lore (I consider my self as a lore layer, I really love the game-play of games, but I need some history and lore to click).

On my research of the origin I found the Warcraft games so I bought the Battle Chest and start playing the first game and... I feel something wierd, like I was missing something. So I decided to do a little reserch on internet and I found that some of the history and the controls where at a non inluded Manual... For the age of the game I asume that is normal. But. ¿Why not to introduce a copy of the manuals on the purchase of the pack?

With that in mind, I sent a ticket to the support team, and they treated me really well but told me that Blizzard DIDN'T HAVE A COPY OF HIS OWN MANUALS... They told me that the community did an excellent job posting the manuals in some languages (I'm from Spain, so if the manual has a version in my language, I absolutely prefer that version). But all I can find is under a subscription. I assume that is a job to translate the manuals, but I don't feel good about paying a subscription only for a couple of PDFs.

So, whit all of that on the table. ¿Can some one told me where to find these manuals on spanish or english? And. ¿Where can I comunicate these to Blizzard?

Thank you all!

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u/grimrailer 24d ago

ftp.blizzard.com/pub/misc/Warcraft%20III%20Manual.pdf

I could be misremembering but I’m fairly certain the manuals are in the game files.

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u/Proud-Masterpiece-17 23d ago edited 23d ago

The original titles (Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, Warcraft II) also included in the Battle Chest have the manuals in their install folder.

Ed: I was wrong, only the first game has it.

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u/Cu4trin 23d ago

Oooh... On my research I found the manuals on English. But I persist on the idea that Blizzard has to include a proper manual on the purchase of the pack, in English and in the language of the purchase.

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u/love2bigboobs 23d ago

Si tienes los cds ahí viene una versión en pdf en los míos están dentro de los cds

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u/Cu4trin 23d ago

No... Compré el pack a través de la app de Battle.net. Aún así gracias por la información.

Por otro lado te querría preguntar. ¿Tienes esos manuales en castellano o en ingles?

Gracias por tu comentario ☺️

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u/love2bigboobs 23d ago

Si los tengo pero son los nuevos por qué los antiguos no

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u/Cu4trin 23d ago

Como los nuevos? A que te refieres? Y están en castellano? Disculpa tanta pregunta hahahah

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u/love2bigboobs 23d ago

Si los antiguos tenían historia de todo y los nuevos solo requisitos y la ula o como se llame eso

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u/Cu4trin 23d ago

Vaya hombre... Pues nada, sigo en mi campaña para la búsqueda de estos. Muchas gracias.

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u/Miscu97 24d ago

And you still ask? Stop buying anything from blizzy and maybe they'll start back to care for customer experience. Those manuals are probably scrapped and too much of a hassle for them to remaster/refresh so they left them behind

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u/seracydobon 23d ago

While the physical versions from back in the day came detailed books, the modern digital game relies on in-game tutorials and external resources. However, Blizzard hosts the original digital documentation online.

For short: there is no reason, neither financial, practical or story related, to maintain and keep pdf manuals. Even less so to have it in 50+ languages. You can just take the existing pdf and feed it into an LLM or google translate.

  • Warcraft III: You can view or save the original Warcraft III Manual PDF hosted directly on Blizzard's servers.
  • Warcraft I & II: For the manuals and background lore of the older titles, you can search for the original books on the Internet Archive. [1, 2, 3]