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Finland931 Posts
StarCraft turns 20 years old!
There's a whole bunch of stuff coming in March, including a special anniversary stream on March 30th, new content for other Blizzard games, a video feature called StarCraft Is Life: A Celebration (whether it will feature Life remains to be seen), and new skins and portraits and decals in StarCraft 2.
The celebrations officially begin on March 6th, which is tomorrow!
Log in to StarCraft: Remastered after March 6 to receive a commemorative 20th Anniversary UI Skin for StarCraft: Remastered.
Log in to StarCraft II after March 6 to receive a special UI Skin for each race. Additionally, log in between March 6 and April 3 to receive a Portrait and Decal.
See more details here:
https://starcraft2.com/en-gb/sc20
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To this day I remember the amazement that was brought by first minutes of StarCraft's demo that was run on my old Pentium 133MHz. 20 yrs ago, damn!
-- EDIT: typo
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On March 05 2018 19:45 pieroog wrote:
To this day I remember the amazement that was brought by first minutes of StarCraft's demo that was run on my old Pentium 133MHz. 20 yrs ago, damn!
-- EDIT: typo
Pentium? You had it good....
I had 486 with 133mhz. Starcraft lagged for me lol
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OMG.
I remember playing some Starcraft, though mostly single-player, before Broodware came out. Just a couple matches in multiplayer (LAN) before Broodwar though.
I thought first, yeah, after WARcaft and the success of the movie Starship Troopers we now get STARcraft. How not imaginative ...
... though I liked the campaign when I got to the zerg. Organic, vile, swarmy. YESSS!
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20 years feels like an eternity, holy shit. I still remember playing Starcraft for the first time at my friend's place and trying to complete those campaign missions. :D
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Wow, what a run it has been
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Happy 20th birthday!
Crazy how time flies, i still remember my first games, being completely clueless about everything but still having fun and going for zerg.
Then bw came and i fell in love with dts and went P. Still feels like yesterday
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I remember not being very good at the game, I would mass carriers on the easiest difficulty and I thought I was a pro.
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Started to play SC as a student 20 years ago and the game was with me allmost half of my life. Now my 6yo son is standing next to me, watching the game, knowing all the characters and wishing he can handle to play soon. Starcraft floats through the time. Best game ever and nothing will ever change it.
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The best game ever is Starcraft II.
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Starcraft has done so much for me. I've played BW and SC2 a lot, met some awesome people, made some friends and had tons of fun. All thanks to one (two) game(s). Even though I'm not as interested in the game as I've been a few years ago, I'm still coming back to this site to watch tournaments and read random threads. Starcraft is the only game to have a real impact on my real life.
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On March 06 2018 04:56 virpi wrote:
Starcraft has done so much for me. I've played BW and SC2 a lot, met some awesome people, made some friends and had tons of fun. All thanks to one (two) game(s). Even though I'm not as interested in the game as I've been a few years ago, I'm still coming back to this site to watch tournaments and read random threads. Starcraft is the only game to have a real impact on my real life.
You got to meet awesome people? I got ripped off!!!
In all seriousness, StarCraft the game was great, but it was the community of people that would help to define the person I've become. The... old person... I've become apparently  .
PS - I'm glad to see this whole TeamLiquid thing has worked out.
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On March 05 2018 19:56 angrypofke wrote:Show nested quote +On March 05 2018 19:45 pieroog wrote:
To this day I remember the amazement that was brought by first minutes of StarCraft's demo that was run on my old Pentium 133MHz. 20 yrs ago, damn!
-- EDIT: typo Pentium? You had it good.... I had 486 with 133mhz. Starcraft lagged for me lol
233MHz PowerPC 750 on my iMac G3 boyyyyy. Haha. Good ol days.
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Starcraft made me and my cousin get our first ever jobs. Broke college freshmen, got to work night-shift admins at internet cafe so we can LAN with all our friends. After all-nighters, the owner would come to open in the morning and we'd be passed out, face on the keyboard. He'd wake us up, give us coffee and send us to class 
..gawd I'm old..
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I've got my original Starcraft CD pinned to the wall next to my Starcraft pro signature stuff. I've loved this game since I was eight, and I'm never stoppin'. :D
Looking forward to this "event." It's just going to be a month of being reminded of good Starcraft memories.
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20 years later,
It's still my #1 game.
Nothing can top it.
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First memory of playing original SC was b.net and asking people, what do these red bars mean and why is everyone talking about this "lag?" What is "lag"?! lol
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How old am I?
I still recall being super excited at playing BNet and direct cable connection for the first time after having only played vs the AI.
In my first game on BNet I 4pooled some guy and when I reached his base he already had 4 zealots lined up (unrallied) outside his gateway. For ages I was convinced that the Koreans were that much better than us humans hahaha I couldn't join any other games because of the terrible lag.
And my then 12 year old brother would beat our uncle by just using zealots and no other tech hahahahaha. For some reason my brother figured out by himself that he should be making probes non-stop back then. Years later we found that my uncle had a stash of BW guides in his house hahahaha.
In a 2v2 bnet game my then 12 year old brother got eliminated and float his only surviving building to his ally's base and typed "I'll help you with wraiths" .... and then realise that he had no supply depots (or scvs) hahahahaha. His ally proceeded to win the game 1v2.
We had like 60 apm back then.
My old bones ache.
![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/c3P7sP7.jpg)
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On March 06 2018 04:41 DieuCure wrote:
The best game ever is Starcraft II.
Straight bait if I ever seen it
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I play BW from 1999 and I am always devoted to SCII no matter how crytical I am sometimes with new changes and patches.
I am wandering what Blizzard are planning from now on. I know it is too early to dream for SC3, but still let's hope that for the next two years we receave at least some early teaser. I remember that when I watched the very first gameplay video of SCII back in 2008, I was so excited.
And now 20 years. I can't believe that.Best RTS ever! I like the old Red Alert and Age of Empires, but Starcraft is the best RTS ever invented by the humankind! Still it is a phenomenon!
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On March 06 2018 16:35 Veluvian wrote:
I play BW from 1999 and I am always devoted to SCII no matter how crytical I am sometimes with new changes and patches.
I am wandering what Blizzard are planning from now on. I know it is too early to dream for SC3, but still let's hope that for the next two years we receave at least some early teaser. I remember that when I watched the very first gameplay video of SCII back in 2008, I was so excited.
And now 20 years. I can't believe that.Best RTS ever! I like the old Red Alert and Age of Empires, but Starcraft is the best RTS ever invented by the humankind! Still it is a phenomenon!
Did you miss the release of sc3 in 2017? Goes under Starcraft: Remastered
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Can't collect them in sc2. Works in Diablo3.
edit:Log in to StarCraft II after March 6 to receive a special UI Skin for each race. Additionally, log in between March 6 and April 3 to receive a Portrait and Decal.
So not today?
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Dominican Republic621 Posts
i log in and nothing happens
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3136 82017 5760
that was my first ever starcraft CD key, and i typed it from memory. it's friggin permanently lodged into my head til i die
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I don't know my current cellphone number (~15years already...) but the previous two -.-
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You got to meet awesome people? I got ripped off!!!
10 years ago, I joined broodwar.de. I've met about 20 people from there and made some friends.
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20 years? Wut?
I think it was yesterday when we 3v1ed a hard comp and celebrated when we beat it on the 3rd try. Time flies...
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That BW UI looks really ugly.
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On March 06 2018 21:24 orvinreyes wrote:
3136 82017 5760
that was my first ever starcraft CD key, and i typed it from memory. it's friggin permanently lodged into my head til i die
i lost my SC CD twice. i could've easily played a pirated version. i pirated 95% of the games i played. anyhow i just bought another copy.
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On March 06 2018 20:57 BonitiilloO wrote:
i log in and nothing happens
same 
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On March 06 2018 23:21 virpi wrote:10 years ago, I joined broodwar.de. I've met about 20 people from there and made some friends.
Whats your nick there?
Although I think I was already gone from bw.de in 2008 or on the way out. Was on their staff for a couple years. Did you attend any DbBW-LANs in Düsseldorf? Might have met each other there. I was extremely active in the German Broodwar scene up until SC2 beta hit.
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Finland931 Posts
Considering Twitch was made for StarCraft 2 this is pretty fitting.
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so people without twitch account have no chance to get it?
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It's the deal yeah, and without sc2 account you have no chance to get it too 
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Been playing SC off and on since 98'.
Still haven't watched or played a single game of SCII.
Best game ever...
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United States97276 Posts
On March 06 2018 20:57 BonitiilloO wrote:
i log in and nothing happens
I didnt get anything earlier today but just got a bunch of shit for logging in now
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United States33388 Posts
yay free shit for watching SC2 :o
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What if you reverse watching and free sh*t ?
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The BW consoles in SC2 come with APM counters. The technology is here.
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This is probably the best game I`ve played, the best game that is out there for me. (I consider here sc and sc2 as one).
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Happy birthday to all of us
happy birthday to you starcraft
<3
[blows candles with everyone]
long live RTS !!!!
<3
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I think I did everything right to get the drop (connected the account I was playing on, enabled drops, streamed for over 2 hours) but I did not receive a drop. Do streamers not receive the drops? Or did I do something wrong?
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On March 08 2018 07:28 NonY wrote:
I think I did everything right to get the drop (connected the account I was playing on, enabled drops, streamed for over 2 hours) but I did not receive a drop. Do streamers not receive the drops? Or did I do something wrong?
I think you just get the drops for watching.
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On March 08 2018 07:46 Ansibled wrote:Show nested quote +On March 08 2018 07:28 NonY wrote:
I think I did everything right to get the drop (connected the account I was playing on, enabled drops, streamed for over 2 hours) but I did not receive a drop. Do streamers not receive the drops? Or did I do something wrong? I think you just get the drops for watching.
Ah that's a bummer looks like some cool stuff. The streamer's sacrifice.
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Braavos36375 Posts
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On March 08 2018 07:56 NonY wrote:Show nested quote +On March 08 2018 07:46 Ansibled wrote:On March 08 2018 07:28 NonY wrote:
I think I did everything right to get the drop (connected the account I was playing on, enabled drops, streamed for over 2 hours) but I did not receive a drop. Do streamers not receive the drops? Or did I do something wrong? I think you just get the drops for watching. Ah that's a bummer looks like some cool stuff. The streamer's sacrifice.
I think you should probably just be able to keep a random stream open while you stream. Or anytime keep a random stream on your phone open. Don't even have to be actively watching.
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As someone who played Dune2, Warcraft 1&2 (hey, where are the anniversaries for those!) a lot and is mainly into SC2, still have to give it up for SC and brood war for keeping the RTS flame burning! (especially when EA et al. are butchering stuff like C&C). 20years hype 
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I'm realizing that the release of SC1 was closer to the Iran Hostage Crisis under Carter than to present day. 0.o
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