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StarCraft 2 Now Free to Play


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https://eu.battle.net/account/sc2/starter-edition/index.xml

 

AVAILABLE

* replay watching at any version

* first 3 missions at Mar Sara

* 4th mission: Tychus Findlay or doctor Hanson

* some challenges

* 4 multiplayer maps:

--- Xel'Naga Caverns

--- Discord IV

--- High Orbit

--- The Shattered Temple

* some custom maps

* playable race - Terrans

* map editor

* ANY region available. Just register you account and download client (small message under button about client language is allowed)

 

 

NOT AVAILABLE

* ranked games

* 99% of custom maps

* all other melee maps, that are not marked by blue star

* map publishing

* chat channels

* Protoss and Zerg

 

Yeah sort of like a shareware but whatever.

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On a related note, will HoTS (what an apt acronym!) be a standalone expansion?

 

it's unknown at this point but i hope not. if it was standalone only, then it would definitely be a full priced game. if it requires the base game to play, then there's hope it will cost less.

 

ideally they should have both, a full priced game which has the entire multiplayer content included and the lesser priced one that only contains the zerg campaign.

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^^ and even lesser priced one with only the new bits from the multiplayer :D

 

i think the multiplayer changes will be a free upgrade for all existing owners. i don't think they can afford to split their multiplayer community based on who bought the content and who didn't.

 

if their history with wow is anything to go by, they will release expansions for 40$ which require the base game to be bought previously, and of course the battlechest for the full 60$ which includes both games.

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^^Blizzard announced separate ladders for WOL,HoTS and glowing blades of glory...or whatever it was called :P The argument being, sc and bw had separate ladders and that they would continue to monitor balance and patch WOL after the other come out.(wonder how many will still play WoL though). And they're also going to possibly remove or redesign/remove some of the units in WOL, units currently being looked at are the overseer and the immortal.

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