Blizzard is giving away StarCraft 2 to selected players – but is there a catch?
What reads like cheap clickbait in the headline is simply the truth. Several players have reported in the past 72 hours that they can suddenly play StarCraft 2 on their Battle.net account. The game has simply appeared in their list of games and is available for download.
What initially seemed like an error to many quickly turned out to be a PR stunt by Blizzard. They simply gifted the base game to some players – probably in the hope that they would enjoy it and purchase the two expansions “Heart of the Swarm” and “Legacy of the Void”.
By the way, this is not a “trial version” or a time-limited version of the game, but the full (and endlessly available) base version of StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty.
If you are among the lucky ones: Congratulations! At least the single-player campaign is definitely worth a look – even if you have no idea about StarCraft.
The colleagues at PCGamesN have also already asked Blizzard if everything is above board with this initiative and promptly received a response.
“This was done directly in the Battle.net desktop app. If you have received an official email from us, then your account has been marked, and you will see StarCraft 2 directly in the Battle.net launcher. Do not click on any links from emails, social networks, or similar sources that promise to grant you a download key. We have marked the accounts directly, and there are no “download keys” in this case.”
Cortyn says: A nice initiative to attract a few more players to the StarCraft universe. However, I can already hear the first keyboards clicking, as players will surely complain that they “never got anything” and that the whole initiative is “totally unfair”. If this has happened to you: Maybe next time!
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