Starcraft II: Free Arcade and Bonuses

[Orcnet]

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Blizzard announced the removing of certain restrictions on the free Starter Edition of the game, including giving all players access to the StarCraft II Arcade.

As part of the patch 2.1, a free version of StarCraft II allows access to limited number of features such as having access to the Arcade, effectively allowing them to play all custom game modes and maps without having to purchase a copy of the game.

Blizzard also included bonuses such as:

Making your own Decals and Portraits! (Image courtesy of teamliquid)

Orc heroes and a remastered Brood War music now included in the Starcraft II Editor! (Image courtesy of teamliquid)

^{-Source based from IGN: LINK
-More info about Starcraft II Arcade: LINK
-Late news is late lol}

 

[sonofjay]

That Zerg is cute.

 

[Rui]

WOW Holy Sh*t man, Orc heroes, is this for real? I'm gonna search YouTube for that music right away too!

 

[TaShadan]

Wow. Will they remake all wc3 units? Maybe even wc1 und wc2? Combined with Tricerons models and the Terrain stuff from the Warcraft New Dawn project there could be done something great. Too bad i hate SC2 and the arcade system.

 

[chobibo]

OMG, look at that Tauren Chieftain! cool man! And that Orc Hulk blademaster looks like srz bznz!

 

[MrHobby53]

So... Then Zerg swarm has landed on Azeroth... :/
I hope that Kerrigan will meet Sylvanas :3

 

[Bloody Wolf]

Oh hell yea

 

[deepstrasz]

What's the point of Orc heroes? I mean sure the Murloc Marine and Tauren Marine were something cool but that was a crossover. This is quite unnecessary. They are already in the making of HotS (not SC2 expansion).

 

[RiotZ]

Making your own decals and portraits?

 

[Tleno]

Making your own decals and portraits?

I can already imagine all the influx of genital pictures 0_0

Anyways, this is surely awesome, but I am worried this in the end may mean large influx at first and a large decrease in popularity later. If we as modding community, hurry up and provide enjoyable, long-term mods as soon as the update rolls out, we may win this and make the player audience massive. If we fail, on other hand, we'll end up with just a minor influx and a major disappointment in the game if them F2Ps run into the Arcade in it's current, stagnant state!
If I wasn't busy with university I would surely be working on my map already I mean, gentlemen, I assume most of you are not interested in this, but if we actually manage to attract the community, we may not have to worry about lack of players anymore!

 

[MrStormyZ]

Gorgeous I say! Those models looks so Amazing.

 

[Ralle]

This will certainly help the people who remake Warcraft in Starcraft.

 

[RED BARON]

Wow, nice - even if I don't get why they bothered to make them I find it awesome that they did. Also I need to find that music

 

[saphiree]

Yay, this means the game is going to get so much better for LAN parties. Now my friends don't have an excuse for not playing it any more

 

[LordDz]

Actually, it's your own decals for clans:
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/11523759/

The decals in the OP are reward decals..

"The Far Seer, Shadow Hunter, Blademaster, and Tauren Chieftain Orc heroes from Warcraft III have all been remodeled and will be available for use by map developers in the StarCraft II Editor some time in 2014."

 

[deepstrasz]

Also I need to find that music

Just reread the first post and saw Brood War music REMASTERED. Now that's something strange that I'll have to give my ears to.

LAN parties.

Where??? I haven't seen that in SC2!

 

[Rui]

It appears all wc3 heroes will be coming in eventually. Read this either in one of Blizzard's posts or at SC2Mapster.

 

[saphiree]

Just reread the first post and saw Brood War music REMASTERED. Now that's something strange that I'll have to give my ears to.

Where??? I haven't seen that in SC2!

Everyone has high speed internet anyways, so no need to actually play the game LAN. I just meant everyone could download the game now and play

 

[Crazed_seal2]

Everyone has high speed internet anyways, so no need to actually play the game LAN. I just meant everyone could download the game now and play

Hah!

 

[LordDz]

Everyone has high speed internet anyways, so no need to actually play the game LAN. I just meant everyone could download the game now and play

I have 2mb/s.
8mb/s at home at my parents, tried playing dota 2 with 8 people, did not work.