StarCraft is now free, nearly 20 years after its release

Re:StarCraft is now free, nearly 20 years after its release by hd4 on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @06:52AM (#14146836)

It would have been nice if they had done a 'id software' and released the source, and thereby possibly encourage more people to take an interest in game development.

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Re:StarCraft is now free, nearly 20 years after its release by rplnt on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @07:17AM (#14146932)

It would be nice if everyone did this, with any independent software that is no longer sold/supported. Independent as in major parts of it are not used in newer products.

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Re:StarCraft is now free, nearly 20 years after its release by candiodari on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @08:19AM (#14147173)

I'm not so sure. Most changes people seem to make to their starcraft is enabling cheating. "Maphacks" (having the ability to see what the enemy does, regardless of normal game rules), and macros (having lots of actions performed in one go, because a significant part of the game is controlling lots of units correctly).

All of those would become completely uncontrollable if open sourced.

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Re:StarCraft is now free, nearly 20 years after its release by tjpnz on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @07:20AM (#14146944)

That and also seeing how possible it would be to get it compiling under Linux.

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