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Blizzard Releases Warcraft: Orcs And Humans, Warcraft 2, And Diablo On Battle.net (www.gamespot.com)
submitted 9 months ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I still have my discs. Do I have to buy them again?

[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's Blizzard.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 1 points 9 months ago

Jokes on them. I've been using the same no-cd crack for Brood Wars for like 25 years now.

[–] Toes@ani.social 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

If you got the codes you can register them on bnet. They don't support the DOS versions, unless something has changed recently.

[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Did Wc1 even have a version with a cd-key?

edit: On that matter, doesn't every version of wc1 require DOS or Mac?

[–] Toes@ani.social 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah I'm uncertain about #1, I know you needed the windows version of 2 to use it.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

I feel like I entered the disc codes years ago. I’ll have to check later.

[–] fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Warcraft is $6
Warcraft 2 is $10
Diablo is $10
They aren't available on macos

[–] vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Especially ironic/sad since old Blizzard games always worked on Win & Mac.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

You can buy Hellfire and Diablo on GoG, and they work great. I even used that to put Hellfire on my Anbernic Linux handheld, and that was probably the best way to play it I’ve ever tried.

[–] ChallengeApathy@infosec.pub 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Why buy them DRMed when you can get them DRM-free on GOG?

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can't play any of these games anymore. WC3 and SC2 gameplay ruined it for me.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I still play diablo and WC2 from time to time. Love them. Especially diablo.

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

If they work on the steam deck, I’m going for it. University lan parties in the computer labs with smuggled in beers while playing Warcraft were fantastic.

That is, until they figured out that the one winning strategy was to play Orcs and get blood ogres asap, then just swarm with them. After that, the entire game hinged on the fastest clicks and where you landed for your starting base.

[–] chuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

[–] Toes@ani.social 2 points 9 months ago

I own some of these on gog. I wonder how that effects me.