As another answerer mentioned, it is not user friendly and it throws you into. StarCraft Remastered, the versions Blizzard will charge for, are coming this summer with new high-res art, remastered audio, support for modern resolutions (and widescreen!), and so on. Blizzard has released the original version of Starcraft and its expansion, Brood Wa r, free to all on both PC and Mac platforms. However, if you want to be good at Starcraft 2, they play SC1/Brood War first. Hey, it's only 19 years old - give 'em time! Poking my head into the sorts of musty dens where grizzled StarCrafters swig rotgut and gob into spacespitoons, I do hear a bit of grumbling about others issues left unfixed. The 1.18 patch notes mention changes like adding windowed fullscreen mode and an Observer mode while improving networking, the anticheat, and compatibility with new versions of Windows. Playing online requires you to sign up for a account but the singleplayer and LAN play don't even need that.

They're free indefinitely, not for a short window. You can grab StarCraft free for Windows here and for Mac here. But for now, free StarCraft for all is just dandy, ta. The real overhaul is coming later this summer in the not-free StarCraft Remastered. The game that birthed modern digital sports! The game that launched a thousand zerg rushes! The game that still has the best tanks in all RTSland! Blizzard have updated StarCraft a touch to play nicer with modern computers but mostly it's still just StarCraft ('just StarCraft' she says!). Blizzard's seminal 1998 strategy game StarCraft and its expansion, Brood War, are now free for all and sundry.

Starcraft brood war free to play