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Now's your chance to play a piece of PC gaming history — Blizzard has released seminal strategy game StarCraft, for free, for both Windows and Mac. The full game, and its excellent expansion Brood. If you've been zealously guarding your money since 2010, waiting for the day StarCraft II would finally be cheap enough to try out, you're in luck. At Blizzcon over the weekend, Blizzard announced the game would be transitioning to a free-to-play model, offering significant portions of the single- and multiplayer content for no charge starting November 14.
Back at BlizzCon, Blizzard made a surprising announcement about StarCraft 2. The company revealed that its world-famous real-time strategy game would be going free-to-play, giving players the chance to check out most of the game's content without spending a dime. That changeover has officially happened, so if you've never played StarCraft 2, now seems like the perfect time to jump in.
While most of StarCraft 2‘s content is now free, not all of it is. Those who are total newcomers to StarCraft 2 will receive the game's first campaign – the terran-focused Wings of Liberty – for free. If, by chance, you owned Wings of Liberty prior to October 31, 2017, you can get Heart of the Swarm for free instead. Simply log into the game anytime between now and December 8 to claim it.
Back at BlizzCon, Blizzard made a surprising announcement about StarCraft 2. The company revealed that its world-famous real-time strategy game would be going free-to-play, giving players the chance to check out most of the game's content without spending a dime. That changeover has officially happened, so if you've never played StarCraft 2, now seems like the perfect time to jump in.
While most of StarCraft 2‘s content is now free, not all of it is. Those who are total newcomers to StarCraft 2 will receive the game's first campaign – the terran-focused Wings of Liberty – for free. If, by chance, you owned Wings of Liberty prior to October 31, 2017, you can get Heart of the Swarm for free instead. Simply log into the game anytime between now and December 8 to claim it.
The entire multiplayer ladder will also be free with this changeover. All of the multiplayer units from StarCraft 2‘s three campaigns will be available to anyone and everyone, so long as you earn 10 'First Wins of the Day' in the Unranked or Versus A.I. game modes. Essentially, this limits you to unranked game modes for the first tens days, which is Blizzard's way of combating smurf accounts that are often prevalent in ranked, free-to-play games.
Finally, all current and future co-op commanders will be free-to-play up to level 5. Artanis, Raynor, and Kerrigan will remain free-to-play without any limits on their levels, but it sounds like you'll need to pay money if you want to level the others beyond that level 5 cap.
If you want to purchase all of the single player campaigns, they can be had for $14.99 each, or in a bundle that includes Heart of the Swarm, Legacy of the Void, and Nova Covert Ops for $39.99. It should be noted that purchasing any of the campaigns (or a seasonal war chest) will grant you immediate access to the ranked ladder, which is certainly the meat and potatoes of StarCraft 2 for a lot of people. Are you going to check out StarCraft 2 now that it's gone free-to-play? Head down to the comments section and let us know!
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Blizzard made the announcement during BlizzCon 2017 that StarCraft II is going to be free-to-play. Today is that day, and now new and old players will be able to come back and experience the sci-fi real-time strategy game with a bigger community.
Here's what you'll be getting:
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· The full Wings of Liberty campaign
· Access to all multiplayer units in Unranked Multiplayer and Custom game modes
· Free access to the Ranked Multiplayer ladder by completing 10 'First Wins of the Day' in Unranked Multiplayer or Versus AI modes
· All Co-op Commanders free up to level 5, including the brand new Terran commander combo Mira Han and Matt Horner, who also debut today.
· Between November 8 and December 8, players who already have Wings of Liberty (as of October 31, 2017) can get a free digital copy of Heart of the Swarm.
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'It's really exciting for us,' David Sum, StarCraft II's lead co-op designer, tells Nerd Reactor. 'We've got feedback that it was a little difficult to understand all the different levels of StarCraft. ‘What do you have to do to get in?' Our community even made a guide about what to do for new players to help their friends out. We don't want it to be that hard to get into the game. With free-to-play, it means more players to play with, and more opportunities to meet friends and really build our community.'
'Our focus is on the community,' Sum continued. 'Games for us at Blizzard isn't just about games; it's a lifestyle. It's about staying connected with the community, building our community, taking feedback and getting the features that they want. On the co-op side, we've been getting a lot of feedback about balance and what commanders they want to see next. We even had a community contest for maps, so the community got to build their own maps and enter a contest. We've got a ton of submissions for that. The map that's coming out that we're releasing here at BlizzCon is a community map that was generated by the community. That's really our love letter to the community.'
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