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Warcraft III at 24: The RTS That Reinvented Its Genre by Accident

On July 3, 2002, Blizzard released Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos on PC. Twenty-four years later, this title remains a textbook case: by imposing individual hero management within a massive RTS framework, it fractured an entire genre and planted the seeds of the MOBA without intending to. With the RTS spinning its wheels today, revisiting this rupture isn't nostalgia—it's understanding why the genre still struggles to reinvent itself.