'StarCraft II' Goes Free-To-Play Later This Month

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"StarCraft II" is becoming a free-to-play title starting November 14, Blizzard revealed during today's BlizzCon 2017 Opening Ceremony.

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[David_24]

I want to buy a commentators pack cause right now I just play with sound off cause the alerts sound so annoying.

 

[Martell1977]

Just make SC3 already...It's been long enough, it's time to do it.

 

[WildCard999]

Awesome!

 

[berezini]

useless news; never ever wanted to play it in the first place.

 

[btbtbtbt]

Just make SC3 already...It's been long enough, it's time to do it.

Starcraft released: 1998
Starcraft II announced: 2007
Starcraft II released: 2010

It's been nowhere near long enough according to Blizzard time..

 

[Martell1977]

Starcraft released: 1998
Starcraft II announced: 2007
Starcraft II released: 2010

It's been nowhere near long enough according to Blizzard time..

Sadly, you might be right. Their focus seems to be to create only games with lots of micro transactions or DLC. No new, complete IP since D3. And even D3 was meant to be a micro transaction game. They either had no idea how bad the RMAH was going to make the game, or they didn't care as long as they made money off of it.

It's really sad the influence Activision has have on Blizzard. Activision had some great games out a long while back, but now it's all FPS that I see. Mechwarrior 2 and it's xpac Ghost Bear Legacy are among my favorite games of all time. I still play it from time to time using DOSBox.

 

[phobicsq]

So I assume ads will follow?

 

[austintx1985]

So I assume ads will follow?

Almost certainly. Either that, or use the WoW model, where it is "free to play" but only up to a certain level cap, at which point you have to purchase xpacs to progress.