Heart of the Swarm will be free to those who already own Wings of Liberty, but if you don't, Heart of the Swarm is a charge. The things that you then can pay for, if you choose to, are continuing the story. Each game mode provides a tremendous amount of free content. Plus access to ranked and unranked multiplayer, plus all of the commanders to level five.
Yeah, so the parts that are free when you download Starcraft II are Wings of Liberty, which is the entire first part of the game. Obviously, we love the game, so we just want to share it as broadly as we can.īut there are still some parts that you pay into, right? This just simplifies all of that, and gets the message out loud and clear: that you just download the game and play. I think there's a lot of confusion about what you need to play Starcraft II. We had Wings of Liberty, plus two expansions we've had a lot of post-launch content. One of the things that has been confusing for the audience is how to get into Starcraft II, in its current form.
Tim Morten: For us, and this came from the dev team as something that we wanted to do, we feel like Starcraft II is such a special game. What does that mean to you guys on the development team? Starcraft II had a really big announcement in going free-to-play, that's huge for the franchise. This transcript has been edited for content and clarity. In addition to learning the team's expectations for how this update will affect the player base, we also found that there'll be a little something available for players who already own all of the Starcraft II expansions.Īnd for even more from Blizzcon, check out our roundup of all the biggest news, announcements, and trailers from the show. The update will start November 14, but for more insight into what the changes will mean for players, we caught up with Starcraft production director Tim Morten at the convention. Almost every major Blizzard game had a major update for this year's Blizzcon, but Starcraft II had one of the most surprising: the main game is going to be free-to-play.
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