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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 butthurt on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:06PM (2 children)
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 TheRaven on Friday April 21 2017, @02:20PM (1 child)
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday April 21 2017, @09:17PM
The links in the summary here (even the Macintosh one) are to Battle.net-Setup.exe. I tried to guess the URL for the Windows installer from what you said; neither of these worked (404 error).
https://us.battle.net/download/getInstaller?os=win&installer=Starcraft-Setup.exe [battle.net]
https://us.battle.net/download/getInstaller?os=win&installer=Starcraft-Setup.zip [battle.net]