Have you always wanted to check out that StarCraft game you’d heard so much about, but somehow managed to go nearly twenty years without buying a copy?
Good news! Nearly two decades after its 1998 release, StarCraft is now free. Legally!
Blizzard has just released the original game — plus the Brood Wars expansion — for free for both PC and Mac. You can find it here. Up until a few weeks ago, getting the game with its expansions would’ve cost $10-15 bucks.
The company says they’ve also used this opportunity to improve the game’s anti-cheat system, add “improved compatibility” with Windows 7, 8.1, and 10, and fix a few long lasting bugs.
So why now? The company is about to release a remastered version of the game in just a few months, its graphics/audio overhauled for modern systems. Once that version hits, the original will probably look a bit ancient by comparison — so they might as well use it to win over a few new fans, right?
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via TechCrunch
StarCraft is now free, nearly 20 years after its release