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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the team-protoss dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Greetings Commanders, Cerebrates, and Executors,

We're proud to announce that StarCraft will be patched for the first time in over 8 years today. The patch will go live at 2:00 PM PDT.

When patching, please use the 'Run as Admin' option; it is required during your first client run to migrate saves and avoid issues from Windows system admin changes.

StarCraft will be free with this patch as well. We'll add a link here when the patch is live.

Installers
Win:
https://battle.net/download/getInstallerForGame?os=WIN&version=LIVE&gameProgram=STARCRAFT
Mac:
https://battle.net/download/getInstallerForGame?os=MAC&version=LIVE&gameProgram=STARCRAFT

Which are you, Human, Protoss, or Zerg?

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:54AM (4 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:54AM (#496792) Journal

    How many weeks before this is ported to Unix? ;)

    Using OpenGL of course.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @11:04AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @11:04AM (#496794)

    Hell, just release the source code... we can port it ourselves AND keep it running on every os we want, as long as we want. We could even add it to our repos for easy install.

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday April 20 2017, @05:44PM (2 children)

      by bob_super (1357) on Thursday April 20 2017, @05:44PM (#496959)

      Do we need the free-as-in-beer discussion again?

      They want lots of buzz and players so they can sell the HD one (and sequels). They didn't suddenly turn over very valuable IP...

      • (Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday April 20 2017, @06:53PM (1 child)

        by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Thursday April 20 2017, @06:53PM (#497002)

        ID software released source-code for the engine while retaining copyright on the in-game assets for several games.

        • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @07:54PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @07:54PM (#497025)

          Same with FreeSpace 2, you can get it over at hard-light.net