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Re:DeepMind and Blizzard Open StarCraft II as an AI Research... by gcp on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @03:42PM (#14972827)
I wonder if it's come too late.

Couldn't it be the opposite? Blizzard was willing to do this release exactly because SC2 is dead?

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Re:DeepMind and Blizzard Open StarCraft II as an AI Research... by popcorncolonel on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @04:04PM (#14973064)
Why would popularity be a detriment to this API?
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Re:DeepMind and Blizzard Open StarCraft II as an AI Research... by habitue on Friday August 11, 2017 @02:21AM (#14987065)
They released a headless Linux port you can download for free. This wouldn't be something they'd contemplate for a game in its prime.
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