Comments on: Blizzard Digi Downloads

By: zima

zima — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:05:44 +0000

Hm seeing those prices I really have no reason to postpone shelling out for Starcraft, since the pack with Warcraft2 bnet edition+Diablo+Starctaft+Broodwar is for some reason ~15€ here.

But it’s hard to do it when I actually bough Starcraft few years back already and there’s still remote chance of retrieving it ;P (damn, couldn’t they split the pack into individual games?)

oh, and Kerrigan…unimportant?!

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:59:58 +0000

My first copy of starcraft came without a CD key. Thankfully Starcraft had a bug in it’s CD key thing where you could enter a certain thing (being vague in case they never fixed it) and it would work reguardless. So that saved me having to return the bloody thing.

By: MeestaNob!

MeestaNob! — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:40:10 +0000

Dear Blizzard,

Steam please. NOW.

That is all.

-Everyone

By: Optimaximal

Optimaximal — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:08:37 +0000

You can get Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne together for £15 total in game at the moment.

I thought they were in the 2-for-£25 offer… I must be mistaken :)

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:45:53 +0000

You can get Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne together for £15 total in game at the moment.

By: Optimaximal

Optimaximal — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:42:26 +0000

I already have all these anyway, seems a little pricey compared to what you can get them for on budget in the shops too.

The games all still go for ~£15 at retail. Thats ~ $25-$30 in that clown money you deal in!

I already have all these anyway, seems a little pricey compared to what you can get them for on budget in the shops too.

The news post forgets to mention one crucial thing!

Once you register an account, you can enter your retail keys from the boxes and have unlimited access to the download copies. Rumour also has it that entering an older retail StarCraft key could net you a copy of the Anthology, which included Broodwar!

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:40:42 +0000

“Continuing the fine Western tradition of all game boxes having a barely relevant character portrait on”

Buh? As mentioned, the central plots of W3 and Forzen Throne revolve around that guy. The Protos are fairly important to Starcraft and Kerrigan is also extremely significant to Brood War.

So.. a really big WTF?

I already have all these anyway, seems a little pricey compared to what you can get them for on budget in the shops too.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:25:45 +0000

$20? Seems a bit steep, for a game that old.

Blizzard needs the money, I guess.

By: Optimaximal

Optimaximal — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:17:47 +0000

I find it amazing that despite the QA they probably put into the website, they still failed to recognise that UK Postcodes CAN consist of 7 characters!

By: Leelad

Leelad — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:34:52 +0000

Continuing the fine Western tradition of all game boxes having a barely relevant character portrait on, I see…

Never played Starcraft but that chappie right there IS warcraft. Infact you set me racking my brain for someone you could put on there who means nothing to either game. Hogger?

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:44:31 +0000

@Pete

Son of a gun, so they don’t … I’ve been putting them in (and toting them around) assuming that they did.

By: trioptimum

trioptimum — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:32:31 +0000

“Starcraft Anthology”?

Devaluing the word ‘anthology’ to near-meaninglessness.