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[PC] Free to Play: Starcraft 1 (with Original Graphics) @ Battle.net

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[PC] Free to Play: Starcraft 1 (with Original Graphics) @ Battle.net
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HamBoi69 on 01/11/2024 - 08:38 eu.shop.battle.net (1904 clicks)
Last edited 01/11/2024 - 23:28 by 1 other user

Cool freebie here.

StarCraft 1

  • Two games in one
    Includes the classic StarCraft as well as its expansion, Brood War, which added a host of new content including three new single-player campaigns, new units for each race, and new multiplayer maps.

StarCraft 2 Wings of Liberty

Welcome the Koprulu Sector. You are Jim Raynor, and you're on a crusade to bring down the Dominion and its nefarious leader, Arcturus Mengsk. Haunted by betrayal and remorse, some believe you've given up the fight. But you have promises to keep—and a need for vengeance that’s long overdue.

Enjoy!

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Comments

  • Jimothy Wongingtons on 01/11/2024 - 08:40
    +12

    We need additional pylons

    • zealmax on 01/11/2024 - 09:08
      +5

      food for thought

    • arkie0 on 01/11/2024 - 09:46

      Then…

      Carrier has arrived

      • p3t0r on 01/11/2024 - 09:56

        This sent tingles down my spine. You know you've made it with carriers

    • Hinee on 01/11/2024 - 10:32
      +14

      Reading this quoted incorrectly and then upvoted hurts a bit.

      "You must construct additional pylons"

      I didn't even play Starcraft and I know that lol.

      • likeablecheese on 01/11/2024 - 13:18
        +1

        You can tell its wrong when you don't read it in the voice

      • Jimothy Wongingtons on 01/11/2024 - 14:33
        +3

        My memory failing me in my old age evidently

    • paulzhang on 01/11/2024 - 12:12
      +1

      show me the money

    • kobeduck on 01/11/2024 - 14:06
      +1

      I think this will solve the housing crisis

  • Helios504 on 01/11/2024 - 08:46
    +9

    Spawn more overlords!

  • UFO on 01/11/2024 - 09:01
    +8

    Nuclear launch detected! (and then madly scrambling around looking for the red dot) :)

    • Jimothy Wongingtons on 01/11/2024 - 09:04
      +6

      I was always so bad at finding the dot and reacting

      Notice: nuclear launch, detected

      Me: tell my wife, hello.

    • arkie0 on 01/11/2024 - 09:57
      +5

      Didn't muck around with nukes late game, mass BC was always the best

      Battlecruiser operational… (I know you thought it in the accent)

      Hailing frequencies open

      Set a course

    • randcn on 01/11/2024 - 11:03

      It's probably in your mineral line.

  • theSav on 01/11/2024 - 09:01
    +4

    Fire it up
    Got any questions about propane? Or propane accessories?

    • fLaMePrO on 01/11/2024 - 19:34
      +1

      Hello

  • UFO on 01/11/2024 - 09:02
    +11

    In the pipe, five by five

    • arkie0 on 01/11/2024 - 09:43
      +1

      In the rear with the gear

  • theguyrules on 01/11/2024 - 09:05
    +2

    I've not played much of Blizzards games other than Diablo and Overwatch, but I've been reading Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future Of Blizzard Entertainment and its really interesting. Lots of stuff about StarCraft so far.

    • RPGPlayer on 01/11/2024 - 10:12
      +1

      The book looks interesting, thanks.

  • Spam on 01/11/2024 - 09:06
    +3

    Use Stimpack
    Ahh… That's the stuff!

  • Allan on 01/11/2024 - 09:08
    +2

    Power overwhelming

  • corgi-runner on 01/11/2024 - 09:11
    +12

    "You want a piece of me, boy!"

  • Homr on 01/11/2024 - 09:13
    +2

    StarCraft introduced many revolutionary new features that have since become staples of the real-time strategy genre: asymmetric factions, meticulous balance, and a strong emphasis on deep strategy and high accessibility. Find out why, after more than ten years, StarCraft continues to headline gaming tournaments worldwide.

    What was so revolutionary about it?

    I think Command and Conquer and Warcraft were the biggest RTS game changer when it first got released

    • UFO on 01/11/2024 - 09:21
      +4

      No doubt C&C and WC were big in their own right, but dialing in (literally with a Netcomm Roadster modem on dial up) to the Starcraft servers before the internet took off proper was such a big thing.

      I reckon you're forgetting how big and revolutionary Starcraft was (and still is!)

      • Homr on 01/11/2024 - 09:27
        +1

        but dialing in (literally with a Netcomm Roadster modem on dial up) to the Starcraft servers before the internet took off proper was such a big thing.

        I remember doing direct dial up to my friend with a 28.8k modem and playing with each other. Are you telling me you could dial to starcraft servers and played with a range of people without having the internet? Were you charged a local call fee or international??

        • UFO on 01/11/2024 - 09:43
          -1

          nono… you still needed to call your ISP (like AOL etc), but really the only reason was to check if you had mail, or to load up battlenet. There was no 'internet' really. A couple crappy websites like msn that you could jump to after checking your mail, and that was it. It was very clunky, very slow, and very unreliable.

          Direct dial with mates interstate cost a bomb, but when battlenet and true multiplayer started, it was HUGE. Logging in to a starcraft server and being able to find a few players to play on a 6 or 8 player map from all over Australia (or if you picked your time, the US) was simply amazing. I made friends there I still know to this day!

          • Homr on 01/11/2024 - 09:45

            @UFO: What year was this? must be something like 1996-97 if there were only a few websites running?

            I first got dial up internet at around 1998 and it was already established by then.

            • UFO on 01/11/2024 - 09:58

              @Homr: Yep, that sounds about right… even 97 sounds a little late. 95-96? A couple years of "you have mail" AOL and some chat groups, but there wasn't the wealth of information readily available in text. You had to ask people. I think Starcraft was later… 98ish?

    • eathb on 01/11/2024 - 09:22
      +8

      Starcraft blew up in South Korea where it was on national television and it paved the way for professional eSports that we see today.

    • greatlamp on 01/11/2024 - 09:56
      +1

      asymmetric factions, meticulous balance, and a strong emphasis on deep strategy

      Both Command and Conquer and Warcraft only had superficial differences between teams/factions, basically some unique hero units and different skins. Even most strategy games that came afterward do not attempt this level of complexity

      • sneijder on 01/11/2024 - 11:24
        +5

        it is unbelievable how the 3 races are so different and yet the game is so balanced.
        C&C , WC, AOE etc are all good games but once I completed the missions…the fun is pretty much gone.
        but Starcraft got me hooked for more than 10 years.

        • neonlight on 01/11/2024 - 23:58
          +1

          Warcraft 3 and Starcraft were the best of all time. Multiplayer as well

          Sadly nothing surpass those

    • Mokr on 01/11/2024 - 14:55
      -1

      Star craft was the first to have mods and customs maps

      Which spawned a lot of moba games you see now

      • Homr on 01/11/2024 - 17:43
        +1

        Like Dota? But Dota came from Warcraft

        • coxymla on 02/11/2024 - 18:09

          Aeon of Strife from SC1 was arguably the first moba.

    • Qbagger on 01/11/2024 - 16:41
      +1

      I think I might have to give a shoutout to Dune 2!

  • lactose_the_intoler… on 01/11/2024 - 09:15

    We require more vespene gas

  • eathb on 01/11/2024 - 09:21
    +1

    Well, butter my biscuit.

  • Worf on 01/11/2024 - 09:21
    +2

    Does anyone replay missions?

    I find myself replaying the following missions:
    Terran campaign: maw of the void, media blitz, gates of hell, shatter the sky
    Protoss campaign: into the void

    I didn’t really like the Zerg campaign and find that I never replay Zerg missions…

    What are your favourite missions that you replay?

    • UFO on 01/11/2024 - 09:46

      yep!

      great story line.

      I too wasn't a huge fan of the zerg, but even their storyline was great. the corruption of a human to think like them and joing them (like the borg in star trek) is awesome

    • mmd on 05/11/2024 - 03:53

      Terran: the dig (try to clear the protoss bases) and shatter the sky purely for the cheese of killing the lethiaven and the cooling tower at the same time!

      Zerg: I like the char missions where there's a huge Gorgon floating towards to your base, and going after Warfield.

  • Krondorf on 01/11/2024 - 09:26
    +2

    Is everything free or is it just the base stuff that's been free for years?

    • aimbotjesus on 01/11/2024 - 10:18

      Just the base stuff, nothing new here it appears..

  • WayneOZ on 01/11/2024 - 09:37
    +1

    Is my memory wrong but hasn't SC2 been free for years? You only pay if you want to play campaign or say story mode.

  • HmrW on 01/11/2024 - 09:44
    +1

    "need a lighter…"

    Oh man those late night LAN party.

    Custom starcraft skin, talking about that "Gundam skin" trend

  • Windows7forever on 01/11/2024 - 09:50

    Is this free to play now?

    • coxymla on 01/11/2024 - 11:22

      Has been free to play for years.

      • alamodey on 01/11/2024 - 14:16

        oh what i paid $15 for it

        • coxymla on 01/11/2024 - 14:27

          That was for the redrawn graphics.

  • kl2999 on 01/11/2024 - 09:57

    There is no cow level

  • 0031nek on 01/11/2024 - 10:11

    Ah!! the memories…I loved to do Dark Templar rush and every time it happened i could hear people screaming "where the F is the Dark Templar???" "already???" shouted another…

  • Infinite-Justice on 01/11/2024 - 10:16
    +2

    My life for Aiur!

    Power overwhelming

  • DrMoo on 01/11/2024 - 10:28

    My life for Aiur!

  • Tyler Kwok on 01/11/2024 - 10:36

    still not free for quite a lot of the campain, not sure what's new from the "free to play" news since 2018

    • Tyler Kwok on 01/11/2024 - 13:00

      shit, i should have followed the pattern!

      en taro adun!

  • Munki on 01/11/2024 - 10:43
    +2

    SCV good to go!

    • Kammi on 01/11/2024 - 19:56

      SCV good to go sir!

      • neonlight on 06/11/2024 - 08:38

        Delighted to, sir!

  • Boringnameman on 01/11/2024 - 11:01

    En taro Tassadar!

  • sneijder on 01/11/2024 - 11:28

    zergling rushes are the best (and most annoying)

  • Serathis on 01/11/2024 - 11:43

    Ah the good old days

  • KenY on 01/11/2024 - 11:54
    +1

    Battul Cruizer reporting!

    • gmatht on 02/11/2024 - 16:02

      Make you'se of me!

  • peteranh3105 on 01/11/2024 - 12:01

    Ready to roll out!

  • Panpanw on 02/11/2024 - 05:03

    I got the game, why it still keep ask me for paying the HD version?

    • Grunntt on 02/11/2024 - 08:56

      I got the game, why it still keep ask me for paying the HD version?

      Because what you get for free is Starcraft classic - the Remastered version (ie widescreen and improved graphics, access to Ladder games etc) still costs $21.95.

      It goes on sale pretty frquently if you really want it.

      • Panpanw on 02/11/2024 - 09:40

        I had the first CD version of it. Need to find it first.

        • Grunntt on 02/11/2024 - 10:31

          I had the first CD version of it. Need to find it first.

          …and then we start an OzBargain SC clan? (I did enjoy playing when the clans were a thing - I still enjoy playing now but the clans were fun)

  • tarutso on 02/11/2024 - 08:56

    One of the GOAT games

  • rainbowunicorn on 02/11/2024 - 20:33

    EE HAN TIMING!

  • l005e on 02/11/2024 - 21:42

    I play The custom maps All The Time, so much fun!

  • Panpanw on 03/11/2024 - 00:24

    Which server should go?

    • MikeHunt69 on 09/11/2024 - 16:34

      Ladder is cross server. But generally US west if you are based in aus. Otherwise Korea

  • neonlight on 06/11/2024 - 08:37
    +1

    Original SC1 is better than SC2

    Also blizzard completely screwed Warcraft 3 reforge

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