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StarCraft II

UPDATE, November 14: Admonisher: Today's the day that StarCraft II goes self-governing to play! If you check off Battle.network you should be able to memory access Wings of Shore leave for free like a sho. One extra caveat to the original story: Citizenry who ain Wings of Liberty testament still get Heart of the Swarm for free, but only if you owned the game before October 31, 2017 and manually lay claim a copy between immediately and December 8.

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ORIGINAL STORY: The focus at BlizzCon 2017 is mostly on Overwatch, World of Warcraft, and Hearthstone. But StarCraft II, although mostly in maintenance way, did get one pretty huge declaration this year: It's going free-to-play.

Sort of.

After thanking the community for continued to play StarCraft II, Blizzard president Michael Morhaime dropped the free-to-take on bomb in front immediately following up with a caveat: Entirely 2010's Wings of Liberty campaign is going unpaid-to-play. If you already own Wings of Liberty only for some intellect didn't buy the next installment, you'll instead bewilder free access to 2013's Zerg-centrical Bosom of the Swarm.

Multiplayer will also be free, though with additional restrictions. Here's how Blizzard dustup it connected the StarCraft IIwebsite: "Approach Unranked and Versus AI for costless; unlock Ranked with 10 foremost wins of the day in Unranked surgery Versus AI." Commanders are also relieve, only only adequate level five. Meanwhile, StarCraft 2's "Arcade" mode—custom games—has been free for old age.

There's more still to come from BlizzCon 2017, so stay tuned! And delight, for my sake, keep those fingers crossed for Warcraft IV. It's been overly long.

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Hayden writes close to games for PCWorld and doubles as the resident Zork enthusiast.