Blizzard Entertainment released Starcraft and Starcraft: Brood War Patch 1.15.2 which intrigued many players. The new patch allows players to log into battle.net without the Starcraft CD inserted in the CD-ROM drive.
Leading domestic game companies have entered into an unprecedented competition to win orders for Starcraft, Blizzard's representative IP (intellectual property).
Weird MS is letting go of a good IP. I don’t mind it but hopefully the best dev wins and I’m not sure who that is outbid those.
What they are bidding for are exclusive rights to develop the IP. Microsoft/blizzard is essentially licensing it out to the highest bidder, not selling the IP.
I wonder if we'll see Starcraft Ghost come out of this. And if we do, I wonder if it'll be a free-to-play gacha game.
Given the potential developers, looks inevitable there will be free to play gacha versions. But given south korea’s love for starcraft there would be one that is inline with starcraft 1&2.
Might want to expect some sort of backdoor cheat that only south koreans know of lol 🤣
Even though fans have been clamoring for a StarCraft 3 for years now, it seems like Blizzard really has no reason to spend time making one.
They sort of ran the story as far as it could go.
Also, it seems like blizzard is more busy with mediocrity at this point in time.
The problem with Blizzard is they have franchises that don't need sequels. People are happy playing the games that they previously made. What they need is new games, none of this business of trying to transport the old audience into a new version of an old game which only ends up nickle and dime'ing users.
Illogical Games has just announced the official release of Star Discord, the one-man indie dev's charming StarCraft lookalike on mobile.
That's real good! Let me go update my copy of the game now!
I wish Blizzard would have removed the CD check sooner. And by sooner, I mean around half a decade ago. Blizzard "muted" my account because I used a no-CD crack. :(
Oh well. Better late than never.
it lets you log into bnet, but can you play games?
finally, my CD drive's busted so I've been using the no CD crack for the past few years.
Finally.... should've happened a long time ago. At least they did it. Requiring the CD in the drive is probably half of what drives piracy in the first place.