Starcraft 1.18 in 4 days, goes free 2 play

Starcraft 1.18 is coming in 4 days. This is not the UHD 4k patch.

This patch makes SC anthology a free downloadable game.

Added windowed fullscreen or windowed mode; use Alt+Enter to switch between
Added UTF-8 support
Added Keybind options
Added Popular Maps to streamline finding games or game types
Added options to display actions per minute
Added Observer mode
Added opponent information when joining a game lobby

do i get anything special for still having my brood war cd key

Welp, I'm pretty glad my friends and I put off buying BW a few weeks ago to play it together. EZ money save.

Will this be added to my (not)battle.net client?

>Added UTF-8 support

What is this, wizzard?

FISH and ICCUP are now built in to the bnet servers

Fuck yes im excited. Maybe we can finally get some good threads back on this shitty board cuz only oldfags played this game.

Can't wait to spam hydras again.

whats the catch on f2p. how are they making money off this?

Yeah seriously, this is blizzard.

Whats the fucking catch

This isn't the remastered version that's coming out in the summer, they're getting people to try it, so they'll buy the remastered version in 3 months

The remastered version costs money. The classic is free

basically a paid upgrade to not be a pleb

by not fucking over korea.

if they would've charged for this the koreans wouldn't have accepted it, basically every pc bang runs pirated bw and that's where a large portion of its player base lies.

>TFW 20 somethings say "oh that old N64 game?"

So how does this patch download to my copy? It's been over 8 years since the last patch, so I've long forgotten how the update process works.

You surrender your privacy to the new battlenet app

>log in to internet play
>game detects update
>game updates itself and restarts
>patched

That seems simple enough.

Autism < Free

It will workout, don't start pacing and slapping your head yet.

Well, in the 00s people were talking about "old NES games", so it's not like standards had shifted.
Games from the 90s are old by now.

Or was your point that there are people that don't know StarCraft is primarily a PC game?

A bit of both.