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Is Warcraft: Orcs and Humans now legally free to download or not ?

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On 06/09/2016 10:52 AM, a respectable download site has listed Warcraft: Orcs and Humans as downloadable. The license status reads : Freeware.

Does anybody have some info about this ?
Is it a surprise gift from Blizzard ?

For now I withhold the link. But geeks know it is a major site (hint, hint).
 
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Probably no-one has any information about it. Unless you can find a Blizzard post or something about it, assume that it is not legally downloadable. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure Blizzard has stopped making money off that game by now (unless they are going to do some sort of hd remake or something, which is not unlikely considering recent activity)
 
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Err... I answered my own question in my previous post (?)
Anyway, thanks for caring.

[...] Unless you can find a Blizzard post or something about it, assume that it is not legally downloadable.[...]

https://us.battle.net/account/download#classic
(a good link is worth repeating)


An official, 100% legal freeware release of Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, would be good publicity at no cost for Blizzard imho. Other game companies (like Bethesda or Westwood) already did that before, and it brought them good reviews at the time.

Hope more Game companies are reading this thread...


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Please see also :
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games_released_as_freeware
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games_with_available_source_code
 
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It might be worth mentioning, the full version of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans was included in:
- BestSeller Games #5 (French edition, June-July 1997)
- BestSeller Games Collector #1 (French edition, June 1998)

bestsellergames_numero05_v2.jpg bestsellergames_numerocd05_v2.jpg


This video game was also included in the Deutsch edition of Bestseller Games (issue #17).

BSG17.jpg BS17.jpg
 
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