{"id":4339,"date":"2017-11-03T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/308987"},"modified":"2017-11-03T22:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T22:32:00","slug":"blizzard-is-making-starcraft-ii-wings-of-liberty-free-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/03\/blizzard-is-making-starcraft-ii-wings-of-liberty-free-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard is making StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty free-to-play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Blizzard Entertainment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20171103005838\/en\/\">announced<\/a> that it will be making its real-time strategy game\u00a0<em>StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty<\/em> freely available to download and play on November 14th\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This has the potential to rejuvenate the\u00a0<em>StarCraft II\u00a0<\/em>community, especially those who still play the game&#8217;s multiplayer component, as anyone who downloads\u00a0<em>Wings of Liberty\u00a0<\/em>as a free game will have full access to up-to-date versions of\u00a0<em>StarCraft II\u00a0<\/em>ranked multiplayer and its co-op mode.<\/p>\n<p>It may also help juice sales for Blizzard, since\u00a0<em>StarCraft II\u00a0<\/em>spans three core installments (<em>Wings of Liberty<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Heart of the Swarm<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Legacy of the Void<\/em>) and last year&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Nova Covert Ops\u00a0<\/em>mission packs. While\u00a0<em>Wings of Liberty\u00a0<\/em>will go free on the 14th, players will still have to pay to access the other installments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, people who already own\u00a0<em>Wings of Liberty\u00a0<\/em>will be able to download\u00a0<em>Heart of the Swarm\u00a0<\/em>for free for a limited time (between November 8th and December 8th, specifically), and all\u00a0<em>StarCraft II\u00a0<\/em>owners will get a smattering of cosmetic DLC come the 14th.<\/p>\n<p><em>StarCraft II\u00a0<\/em>will be joining its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/296330\/Blizzard_gives_StarCraft_a_new_patch_and_a_new_price_free.php\">predecessor<\/a> amid the ranks of games Blizzard offers for free, including the F2P digital card game\u00a0<em>Hearthstone<\/em>, which has proven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/258297\/Without_Hearthstones_success_Activisions_King_buy_may_not_have_happened.php\">incredibly successful<\/a> since its debut in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Blizzard Entertainment announced that it will be making its real-time strategy game\u00a0StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty freely available to download and play on November 14th\u00a0 This has the potential to rejuvenate the\u00a0StarCraft II\u00a0community, especially those who still play the game&#8217;s multiplayer component, as anyone who downloads\u00a0Wings of Liberty\u00a0as a free game will have full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}