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China6330 Posts
Source: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/09/26/starcraft-game-pass/
Greetings, commanders! We’re so excited that Game Pass members will soon be joining us in the Korpulu Sector. While the entirety of the original StarCraft and StarCraft II’s multiplayer components are free-to-play, we’re delighted to say that StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft II: Campaign Collection will be available to anyone with a PC Game Pass or Game Pass Ultimate subscription from November 5.
The most incredible gift the StarCraft series has given us at Blizzard is our community. A good place to start is Team Liquid, which to this day maintains amazing StarCraft II strategy guides, tournament discussions, results tracking, analysis, news, and more. But if you really want to hear and feel what being a part of the StarCraft community can feel like, check out this video, where Sean “Day9” Plott describes not only how StarCraft changed his life, but how important it is to be proud about the things you love. Over 4 million views can’t be wrong! We hope to see you on November 5 when StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft II: Campaign Collection land on Game Pass. Khas il’adare!
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Northern Ireland26006 Posts
Oh sick, perfect way to try and get the youngling more into the game!
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Canada8989 Posts
Nice! Good opportunity for some to discover the game (plus a Scarlett shoutout!)
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On September 26 2024 20:43 WombaT wrote:
Oh sick, perfect way to try and get the youngling more into the game!
Maybe. Xbox has actually closed gaming studios that went on gamepass because their sales were too low (since they were on game pass).
This should not affect Starcraft as it's sales are probably already low, but xbox pushing more stuff on game pass is likely due to too low new subscribers to game pass after the activision-blizzard acquisition so this might actually be a very bad sign of things to come to all blizzard games (didnt microsoft fire a lot of people twice already?).
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Northern Ireland26006 Posts
On September 26 2024 21:33 iloveav wrote:Show nested quote +On September 26 2024 20:43 WombaT wrote:
Oh sick, perfect way to try and get the youngling more into the game! Maybe. Xbox has actually closed gaming studios that went on gamepass because their sales were too low (since they were on game pass). This should not affect Starcraft as it's sales are probably already low, but xbox pushing more stuff on game pass is likely due to too low new subscribers to game pass after the activision-blizzard acquisition so this might actually be a very bad sign of things to come to all blizzard games (didnt microsoft fire a lot of people twice already?).
Well yeah but in this very specific use case he is interested in SC2 and already has the requisite Game Pass sub, so it’s quite a good onboarding route
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Gotta have something positive coming out of that merger eh?
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Damn, that Day9 Daily 100# shoutout.......
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I honestly think every gamer who has the slightest interest in the genre should atleast experience one of the big Blizzard-RTS campaigns. WC2 is most likely the worst out of the four and even that is still better than 95% of RTS campaigns out there. And honestly, it still holds up today if you can overcome the lack of QoL features
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Nice 3 foot putt by Microsoft.
On September 26 2024 23:30 lechatnoir wrote:
Gotta have something positive coming out of that merger eh?
Bobby Kotick was terrible and was flying ATVI into the ground which is why ATVI was down to only 12,000 employees.
Everything is much better now because Kotick and the sycophant management team around him are gone. Hiring is way up. Diablo4 is way better. Everything is amazing and only getting better. Destiny and Bungie have improved so much since leaving ATVI.
Seriously though, MS should stick to Office, Windows, SQL Server, window dressing around compilers, data analytics and data security.
MS is good with video games, but the problem is that Kelly and Kotick were great. So we are going to see a decline in Activision.
This was plain to see years ago. I do not see anyone in Activision upper management with the genius required to make Activision great again.
Activision was someone's baby. Now it is a line item on an Excel Spreadsheet of revenue #s.
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Northern Ireland26006 Posts
Ah yes the problem is not enough Bobby Kotick types, absolutely /s
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United States12238 Posts
The inherent problem with businessmen like Kotick is that they are strategically good at growing a business, but creatively draining. They will take over a company, take about a year to analyze the most successful and effective products in the current inventory, and double down on those while shuttering products that are only marginally successful. This sounds great on paper, until your Guitar Heros and Call of Dutys are released with such frequency that they reach oversaturation, not to mention increasingly aggressive monetization practices. These things together cause consumer unrest, and players who were previously loyal become effectively disenfranchised and start looking for cheaper and less bloated alternatives. The business succeeds at the cost of franchise integrity. The same thing happened with Hearthstone, WoW, Diablo, and Starcraft.
I think this is a major reason why fans don't want to see a new Starcraft or a new Warcraft. They like the idea but they're fearful of the execution because trends within the company have established a certain precedent.
It's great that they put BW/SC2 on Game Pass. I wonder if War3 will follow.
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Hopefully more people enjoy the campaigns and try out multiplayer and/or watch some e-sports after that. This is good news.
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you can still get MS Game Pass Ultimate pretty cheap. MS said they plugged all the loop holes. They did for a few months. The same loop holes from years ago are back.
https://www.instant-gaming.com/en/3169-buy-xbox-game-pass-core-12-month-12-months-xbox-one-xbox-series-x-s-game-microsoft-store/
I bought 1 year of Game Pass Core. Then I bought 1 month of Game Pass Ultimate. I ended up with 13 months of Ultimate for ~$75 CDN. So Game Pass Ultimate for $4.50 USD/Month. I went with Canadian pricing due to favourable exchange rates.
The Game Pass Ultimate loop hole doesn't get you down to the stupid low prices of 5 years ago. However, using this easy exploit method nets you something substantially lower than MS's advertised price.
On September 27 2024 03:49 Excalibur_Z wrote:
The inherent problem with businessmen like Kotick is that they are strategically good at growing a business, but creatively draining. They will take over a company, take about a year to analyze the most successful and effective products in the current inventory, and double down on those while shuttering products that are only marginally successful. This sounds great on paper,
When Kotick and Kelly took over Mediagenic it had zero video game employees and every video game brand including Pitfall! and Zork were dead. Kotick and Kelly resurrected the Activision brand from the dead. Interestingly, the Zork franchise was resurrected by Activision when they assigned Tim Morten to work on Return To Zork. It is a damn good game. Tim Morten did a great job. Activision did a great job hiring talent... including Morten. Morten might be struggling in his current position, however, over the course of 30 years he has done some really good work. Activision/Kotick/Kelly hired him when he had zero experience.
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This is really cool and super sick they gave TL a shoutout also, great job XBOX!
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United States33479 Posts
Mission/level design in SC2 is truly best in class. Good to know that more people will get to enjoy it.
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More exposure to the games is always nice to see, would've been really cool to celebrate/market this with a tournament and/or some showmatches.
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Just put starcraft on steam and make one big patch with rebalance and game will be alive again
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Great campaigns for even more people to enjoy now! 
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