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Original Starcraft Now Free

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: 3, Informative) by TheRaven on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:10PM (4 children)

    by TheRaven (270) on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:10PM (#496828) Journal
    Soylent seems to have picked some stupid links. I downloaded it when the same story was on the green site a couple of days ago, with a different link. It seems to download and install fine without creating any kind of account. I started it and got to the start of the single-player mission as a quick test - all seems to work fine. You probably need battle.NET for online play.
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by butthurt on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:06PM (2 children)

    by butthurt (6141) on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:06PM (#496906) Journal

    The story on Slashdot:

    https://games.slashdot.org/story/17/04/18/2243253/starcraft-is-now-free-nearly-20-years-after-its-release [slashdot.org]

    ...links to this:

    https://starcraft.com/en-us/articles/20674424 [starcraft.com]

    ...which currently has the same links for downloading. Seeing "4 hours ago" written there, I wondered whether the page had been changed since you saw it. However an archived copy from yesterday also says "4 hours ago" and has the same download links.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20170419231535/https://starcraft.com/en-us/articles/20674424 [archive.org]

  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday April 21 2017, @11:50PM

    by butthurt (6141) on Friday April 21 2017, @11:50PM (#497671) Journal
    > Soylent seems to have picked some stupid links.

    You're right. The link text in the summary shows this:

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

    but what it actually links to is corrupted because the ampersands have been removed:

    https://battle.net/download/getInstallerForGame?os=WINversion=LIVEgameProgram=STARCRAFT

    https://battle.net/download/getInstallerForGame?os=MACversion=LIVEgameProgram=STARCRAFT

    By following the links displayed as the link text, rather than the corrupted ones that are missing their ampersands, the Starcraft-Setup.exe and Starcraft-Setup.zip files may be downloaded.

    When I tried posting this with the URLs enclosed in "<code>...</code>" my post didn't render correctly in the preview. One of the URLs became a clickable hyperlink, and there was some gibberish about "url2html".