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StarCraft 2 (In A Limited Feature Set Is) Now Free to Play

B

bluemax

Banned
StarCraft 2: The First Hit's free edition

TeamLiquid.Net said:
AVAILABLED
* replay watching at any version
* first 3 missions at Mar Sara
* 4th mission: Tychus Findlay or doctor Hanson
* some challenges
* 4 multiplayer maps:
--- Xel'Naga Caverns
--- Discord IV
--- High Orbit
--- The Shattered Temple
* some custom maps
* playable race - Terrans
* map editor
* ANY region availabled. Just register you account and download client (small message under button about client lanuage is allowed)


NOT AVAILABLE
* ranked games
* 99% of custom maps
* all other melee maps, that are not marked by blue star
* map publishing
* chat channels
* Protoss and Zerg
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Embrace the future!
 
T

The Technomancer

card-carrying scientician
Yeah, looks like I'm getting into StarCraft

Although limiting the races we can play as is a good/bad way of making us buy the full thing :(
 
M

Milabrega

Member
Oh wow the option to pick your own region, but I didn't think that was possible with the way they set up bnet.2 to "improve" the experience.
 
F

Fersis

It is illegal to Tag Fish in Tag Fishing Sanctuaries by law 38.36 of the GAF Wildlife Act
So awesome.
Ill try it this weekend.

(Its a demo really)
 
Z

Zen

Banned
The_Technomancer said:
Yeah, looks like I'm getting into StarCraft

Although limiting the races we can play as is a good/bad way of making us buy the full thing :(
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This actually seems almost exactly like the old StarCraft original demo that they released back in the day. It had a precursor terran mini campaign. For the multiplayer you could only do 1v1 with terran and had like 1 or 2 maps.
 
K

kennah

Member
Damn, was hoping it had the whole single player campaign. I only want to play it for the story, not the multi.
 
N

Nirolak

Mrgrgr
maniac-kun said:
What? Why are they doing that?
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This actually isn't a terrible guess, though I'd say it's caused more by Activision Blizzard as a whole than just WoW:

Interfectum said:
Damage control for the upcoming conference call? Can't wait to hear what the WoW subs are at now.
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jediyoshi

jediyoshi

Member
Why would you do that? said:
How big is the download? It doesn't seem to report the file size when I start the download...
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Only a few megs for the downloader itself. The actual client is listed at 6.99 GB
 
R

rmt92

Member
This is exactly what I need to try and get into the game. Start the download now and it'll be done by the time I get back form work :D
 
F

fernoca

Member
jediyoshi said:
I was just thinking about that, but they do have a P2P option in the downloader which is on by default.
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Yeah. Disabled it and went to 16...then 28 hours. Guess I'll wait a few days, not like I'm dying to play it now. Just want to see if my computer runs it even at the minimum settings.
 
S

Sora

Member
Can you actually play online multiplayer games on those maps metioned or it's another type of multiplayer like LAN (I may be wrong, but as I remember SC2 doesn't support LAN)?
 
Z

Zzoram

Member
Sora said:
Can you actually play online multiplayer games on those maps metioned or it's another type of multiplayer like LAN (I may be wrong, but as I remember SC2 doesn't support LAN)?
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It's online multiplayer, but probably only against other demo players, and everyone will be Terran, with a limited map pool.
 
Yoshichan

Yoshichan

And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
NOT AVAILABLE
* Protoss and Zerg
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Oh my GOD, terran will invade us more than ever now (when they finally decide to buy the game).
 
S

Silex

Member
Zzoram said:
It's online multiplayer, but probably only against other demo players, and everyone will be Terran, with a limited map pool.
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No, you can actually play custom games with people who own the full version too.
Full details here:
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/3250656#blog

Great move by Blizzard, you don't see a lot of games who offer such a big part of their multiplayer component for free in demos.
 
U

ultron87

Member
Silex said:
No, you can actually play custom games with people who own the full version too.
Full details here:
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/3250656#blog

Great move by Blizzard, you don't see a lot of games who offer such a big part of their multiplayer component for free in demos.
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Oh wow, even better.

Anyone interested in Starcraft should download this and join SC2-GAF for GAF-Night tonight on the NA server at ~9 EST.
 
E

erragal

Member
Best part to me: the map editor is free. I'm more interested in that than actually playing SC2. I can see if it's as good as everyone says without having to commit on paying unless I want to use the publishing features.
 
G

ghst

thanks for the laugh
shareware's coming back to usher in a whole new generation of 5 raxing a-move goons.
 
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