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Experience History When StarCraft and StarCraft II Land on Game Pass - Xbox Wire

StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft II: Campaign Collection come to Game Pass in November - find out how this series has become truly historic.

news.xbox.com

Greetings, commanders! We’re so excited that Game Pass members will soon be joining us in the Korpulu Sector. While the entirety of the original StarCraft and StarCraft II’s multiplayer components are free-to-play, we’re delighted to say that StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft II: Campaign Collection will be available to anyone with a PC Game Pass or Game Pass Ultimate subscription from November 5.

 

[Draugoth]

Announced at Tokyo Game Show

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[killatopak]

I don't know about SC2 but will definitely check out SC1.

 

[Skifi28]

How about a steam release?

 

[adamsapple]

Experience History When StarCraft and StarCraft II Land on Game Pass - Xbox Wire

StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft II: Campaign Collection come to Game Pass in November - find out how this series has become truly historic.

news.xbox.com

 

[GHG]

If this is available on Steam I'm day one.

 

[adamsapple]

If this is available on Steam I'm day one.

I forget, did Diablo IV release on Steam day 1, or was it a later release?

 

[GHG]

I forget, did Diablo IV release on Steam day 1, or was it a later release?

It was later, but that originally released prior to them finalising the Activision deal I believe.

 

[Goalus]

It's a blessing to have both games in the MS Store.
Warcraft 1, 2, 3 when?

 

[darth.shrimp]

It's a blessing to have both games in the MS Store.
Warcraft 1, 2, 3 when?

I'd... actually pay good money for a Warcraft 1 with "modern" UI improvements (starting with smart right-click orders like they added starting in Warcraft 2, having to use keyboard shortcuts for everything, including move, gets old very fast).

 

[LordBritish]

Available Now!
Battle.net required ( I already have battle.net yet it didnt recognize it, now its just spinning)...

I think I figured it out..
In the battle.net app, it shows as Available for Gamepass and installable on both Starcraft and Starcraft 2
probably gotta have your apps configured for xbox and gamepass somewhere, which I did a while ago???

 

[Interfectum]

Starcraft 1 and 2 campaigns are great.

 

[twilo99]

I never played SC2 so I might give it a go but I’m definitely installing the first game

 

[Magic Carpet]

I've heard that the original Starcraft dosn't work on Windows 11. Is that true? I would like to try out the campaigns for old time sake.

 

[Topher]

I've heard that the original Starcraft dosn't work on Windows 11. Is that true? I would like to try out the campaigns for old time sake.

Not sure about the original but the remastered version works great on W11. Very much worth the upgrade, imo

 

[AJUMP23]

Both games are great, I prefer OG starcraft multiplayer to SC2. Nice additions to the library.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Not sure about the original but the remastered version works great. Very much worth the upgrade, imo

It's been so long since I've played. I think my Battlenet account still works.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Deffo going to run through these campaigns again.

 

[pasterpl]

I know what I will be doing this weekend

 

[FoxMcChief]

I really hope we see console ports.

 

[adamsapple]

I really hope we see console ports.

The AoE and other RTS ports with KB + M support do show that it's perfectly feasible.

 

[Denton]

probably gotta have your apps configured for xbox and gamepass somewhere, which I did a while ago???

Did you get it to work? I tried yesterday but battlenet sees my "until 2027" gamepass as inactive, the gall of it.

 

[Rush2112]

Starcraft is free on battle.net you dont even need a gamepass.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Starcraft is free on battle.net you dont even need a gamepass.

Is it the HD version or the old 90's blurry version? I can just imagine the giant pixels on my 80" TV.

 

[Denton]

Fixed my problem above, disconnected xbox account from battlenet and reconnecting it fixed it, now gamepass appears active and I can download and play via bnet again.

 

[Denton]

OH MY FUCKING GOD BLIZZARD AND MS YOU DUMB CUNTS

So after I fixed the problem above, I downloaded "Starcraft remastered" and when I start it, the old 1998 version of Starcraft starts and that's it. In the main menu, there is "Purchase Remastered" tile, in the options is "HD Graphics" toggle which is greyed out and cannot be clicked on, F5 (which I googled should switch graphics) does nothing.

How are they so bad at this?!

Between the Black Ops 6 having the most annoying fucking convoluted startup procedure of any game ever, Battlenet randomly losing xbox link connection and now this shit, I am about to be fucking done with these clowns. I am channeling my inner Bale here. WHAT THE FUCK IS IT WITH YOU

 

[mayham2199]

Great games with great story.

 

[chokotoureiki]

I've beaten all of the campaigns including the Ghost one, not to mention sunk hundreds of hours into the melee maps. It's my favorite game of all time, so I'm all for it.

 

[N1tr0sOx1d3]

Does this mean ability to play on GeforceNow?

 

[IDKFA]

StarCraft is the 3rd best RTS of all time and it's about time it got some love.

This also needs to come to consoles. If AoE can get ported to Xbox then so can StarCraft.

 

[Nintendo's Witch]

edit: nvm

 

[Magic Carpet]

How are they so bad at this?!

Come on Give Microsoft some credit. They recently released a Windows bug fix that improved AMD performance to what it should have been years ago.
I bet that drained the one competent gaming software engineer left at the company. He will be on vacation for a few years. When he gets back Microsoft can start promising to do things again.

But until he gets back to work, It's login maze fun times.

 

[Denton]

Come on Give Microsoft some credit. They recently released a Windows bug fix that improved AMD performance to what it should have been years ago.
I bet that drained the one competent gaming software engineer left at the company. He will be on vacation for a few years. When he gets back Microsoft can start promising to do things again.

But until he gets back to work, It's login maze fun times.

Frankly all this sounds accurate given how much of a shitshow MS is

 

[adamsapple]

Sad that this needs battle.net, would have liked a native Win store version for the Xbox cheevs.

 

[darth.shrimp]

StarCraft is the 3rd best RTS of all time and it's about time it got some love.

This also needs to come to consoles. If AoE can get ported to Xbox then so can StarCraft.

I'm curious to know what are in the first and second position for you?

~edit: sorry, this might've sounded a bit passive-aggressive; I'm just genuinely curious, okay?

 

[TBiddy]

I'm curious to know what are in the first and second position for you?

~edit: sorry, this might've sounded a bit passive-aggressive; I'm just genuinely curious, okay?

I'm not him, but a guess would be C&C (or Red Alert) and AoE

 

[The Cockatrice]

Crazy that there are still people even here that dont own/havent played Starcraft 1/2. I need to replay it. Fantastic campaign/game.

 

[BlackTron]

I don't trust anyone who waited for Gamepass to play Brood War.

 

[IDKFA]

I'm curious to know what are in the first and second position for you?

~edit: sorry, this might've sounded a bit passive-aggressive; I'm just genuinely curious, okay?

No problem. That was passive-aggressive at all. Just my personal preference.

Number 1 has to go to the original Dawn of War (with the standalone expansion (Dark Crusade)

Number 2 goes to Total Annihilation, especially with the Core Contingency expansion.

 

[adamsapple]

Crazy that there are still people even here that dont own/havent played Starcraft 1/2. I need to replay it. Fantastic campaign/game.

SC2 campaign is legit fantastic.

 

[The Cockatrice]

SC2 campaign is legit fantastic.

Even more crazy that after so many years no one tried to surpass it, cinematic/quality-wise.

 

[twilo99]

The integration into gamepass sucks, just like Diablo, it want's me to install bnet