Starcraft 2 is now free to play (including custom games)! And it's awesome!

So blizzard just released a new patch. Among many new features, included is the ability for players on the completely free 'starter edition' of the game to play as all three races. The whole arcade (custom game) section of the game is now open to them as well, meaning they can easily play games on custom maps, either starcraft 2 melee games or crazy community made mods/game modes. In addition, starter edition players can be 'spawned', meaning that if they are in a party with an owner of the full version of the game, all the ranked matchmaking is made available to them (2v2, 3v3, 4v4, ffa), again with all three races being playable.

See more info and download here.

Just thought i'd throw this out there cos even if you're not a fan of sc2 or rts, while i may judge you as a lesser person you can nevertheless find loads of great game modes in the arcade which are a ton of fun

gl hf

SC2 is great, but i think it's about time they made the 1v1 ladder free to play, if they want to enjoy the same level of Esports success as LoL and Dota2, I know that is outside of blizzards comfort zone, but the gaming world is changing, particularly the Esport market.

Tohrazer said:

SC2 is great, but i think it's about time they made the 1v1 ladder free to play, if they want to enjoy the same level of Esports success as LoL and Dota2, I know that is outside of blizzards comfort zone, but the gaming world is changing, particularly the Esport market.

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This.

It truly is an amazing game but I don't think strategy games are where people want to spend their money up front!

I might be tempted to have a look at this now!