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Did anyone know about these? I'm feeling kind of mindfucked despite the nature of these expansions.
Wikipedia article:
StarCraft's first expansion, Insurrection, was released for Windows on 31 July 1998.[50] The expansion was developed by Aztech New Media and authorized by Blizzard Entertainment.[51] Its story focused on a separate Confederate colony alluded to in the manual to StarCraft, following a group of Terran colonists and a Protoss fleet in their fight against the Zerg and a rising local insurgency. Insurrection was not received well, being criticized by reviewers for lacking the quality of the original game.[52] Insurrection was followed within a few months by a second expansion, Retribution. Developed by Stardock, published by WizardWorks Software and authorized by Blizzard Entertainment,[51] Retribution follows all three races attempting to seize control of a powerful crystal on a Terran Dominion colony. The expansion was not received with critical support, instead being regarded as average but at least challenging.
Summary: So apparently there were two expansions(other than BW) produced for Starcraft. They were created independently from Blizzard, but still authorized by them. They had campaign/map additions only, no game play changes.
All four of the game CDs.
Starcraft: Insurrection
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Starcraft: Retribution
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I randomly came across this while skimming the Starcraft wikipedia page, I am the only one who didn't know about this? I'm seriously surprised. To me this is kind of like finding out that you had two siblings that died before you were born and your parents hid that fact from you.
I guess I was a little young when these came out though, like 8. I still knew enough to go mass mutas though, back when there were no corsairs, valkyries, or medics and turrets were expensive.
 
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whaaaaaatt? i never knew about this. how so???
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i never knew these existed
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oh yeah, i remember i downloaded a torrent for that, but never came across playing it. too lazy 
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Haha, I own Retribution. I saw it some random bargain bin 8 years back or so and picked it up. The campaign is honestly more of a challenge than the original or BroodWar, but the production is a little "amateur."
Still shows some good campaign making though, because as far as I know, they only used the StarCraft Campaign Editor.
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I've been playing since 1998 and have never heard of these either.
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I knew of these but I never got around to buying them back then. tt
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they were just cd's with additional campaigns on them (which were in the form of scm/scx maps)
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i knew them, they were just extra campaign addons yeah, and im not even sure if the campaigns were canon
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MrHoon
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I actually owned Insurrection (it was bleh)
I remember this because when my mom bought this for me she told me she will never buy me a game ever again.
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i knew about this too but i forgot about it... i was actually wondering where a friend of mine was getting all these "official" no-name blizzard maps
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On January 12 2009 16:48 MrHoon wrote:
I actually owned Insurrection (it was bleh)
I remember this because when my mom bought this for me she told me she will never buy me a game ever again.
Hahah Korean parents are all the same
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That would be a mod, not an expansion.
I tried these a long time ago. They were pretty bleh. I've seen mod teams put out free maps and campaigns better than this drivel.
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yeah, they were just extra games and whatnot, nothing new was added to it however. :/
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I knew about insurrection but not retribution :o
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Wow I'd never even heard of these games O.O
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the gundam one was pretty good actually..although it lack unit balance. and zerg race remained unchanged. it looks cool when you have a lot of zz gundams flying around owning shit.
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I'm surprised so many of you haven't heard of these. I've played them both, both just as 'meh' as the OP's info describes.
There was an unofficial expansion to Diablo as well, if you didn't know. 'cept the Diablo expansion was actually quite awesome, and made by Sierra. Not quite up to Blizzard quality, and requires a good community patch to work well, but it's awesome.
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i played Insurrection, and yeah its not much, just a new campaign that i couldnt really get into, not really worth any money imo, asides from collector value.
By Diablo expansion do you mean Hellfire ? Or is that a official expansion? If there is another one i must have it !
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played both of them years ago and removed it rather quick because bnet > campaigns
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Insurrection was garbage. Cliched, the maps were huge and barren, and they recycled some maps. There were also several retarded triggers, like infinite spawning marines until you killed a building, but they would spawn as soon as you killed the last group. They also randomly take away the option to upgrade siege mode.
I think a 6 year old could make better maps.
Never heard of Retribution though.
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I heard about them as my friend kept saying he had the Starcraft expansion and I asked Brood War? And he'd say no Insurrection. Except I never tried to play it as it doesn't add much to the game except for a few more single player campaigning
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well, they weren't really that good in the first place.
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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?
i've never heard of this. i'ma have to go download these 
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