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Blizzard Store now has direct downloads. No big deal really, except for one thing.
You sign up, type in your CD keys for certain games and blammo! You can redownload the game whenever the hell you want!
This is going to put sales of the SC and Diablo battlechests in the shitter because no one is going to need to replace scratched discs anymore, but whatever.
Speaking of Diablo it's not up yet, but should be added soon.
http://www.blizzard.com/store/browse.xml?f=c:1,c:7
You sign up, type in your CD keys for certain games and blammo! You can redownload the game whenever the hell you want!
This is going to put sales of the SC and Diablo battlechests in the shitter because no one is going to need to replace scratched discs anymore, but whatever.
Speaking of Diablo it's not up yet, but should be added soon.
http://www.blizzard.com/store/browse.xml?f=c:1,c:7
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No it won't. I lose my CD keys, not my discs. I'm betting Blizzard is counting on that.
It's probably some stupid XML problem with IE, but searching on google only gives me XML jibberjabber.
Really? It true, that means I'll be able to install WC3:TFT in the future without borrowing a friends disc.
Well, that sounds like a personal problem to me.
Myself I need to go back to the family manse and see how many jewel cases I still have for random Blizz products.
Hell I probably have enough copies of the stuff from various sales to get two full accounts of the blizzard back catalog up!
I'd imagine you'd register all your games now/when you buy them so that you can just log in with the standard username/password that you use for everything from your hotmail porn account to your online banking and download them without needing to remember the actual CD key because, you know, that key is now registered to your account already anyway.
...It ties your cd key to your account so you can't lose it unless you lose your account.
You need to click a link for it to actually send out the email.
I just said I had it send them out 3 times.
Then I don't know what's going on, 'cause it sent it out to me as soon as I clicked the link.
Maybe because I sent it to a gmail account?
I received it just fine on Gmail. It didn't even go into the spam filter.
Well, WTF then?
(wait, why would I ever want to play that again?)
Because it's an awesome game?
There's probably just heavy load on their servers at the moment or something. Possibly from people requesting the email confirmation multiple times and such...
War2: BNE doesn't work, sadly, however it seems that a normal SC cd-key will give you both StarCraft and Brood War, since BW didn't have a cdkey originally. (Of course, who on earth would own SC and NOT own BW?).
Recent patches for Starcraft and War3 have lifted the cd-key check limitations, but that hasn't happened for Diablo II yet. I suspect that's why they're not available for download yet. Same with War2: BNE. (And likely why War2 isn't even mentioned as coming out soon; I doubt they want to bother updating it.)
Shame we'll probably never see hide nor hair of War1 ever again. Diablo 1 would require a fair bit of work (It ran almost all of the game data off the cd, there was no option to do a "full install"), in addition to the fact that it didn't have a cd-key so you'd need to rebuy it anyway, so it's likely we won't see it either.
Anyway I signed up, my War3:TFT CD needs some finessing to get it to be read, so this saves me money. Thanks Blizz.
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My buddy will love this though; he's ALWAYS losing his cd's and cd keys.
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I install WC3, open up the Frozen Throne jewel case, pull the disk out and it snaps in half.
Still haven't played Frozen Throne. I wholly endorse the digital download.
or Brawl. 4854.6102.3895 Name: NU..
There's nothing to question. Of course they won't transfer your key to someone else. Blizzard wants people to buy thier games from them, not from you.
Condensate?
Well, it does work with just about all Valve games, and a select few non-Valve games.
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The retail versions of some Steam games don't even have CD-keys, though.
Anyway, I guess I am going to go hit this up for Brood War if I can find my SC CD/key since I never actually got it retail. I know, I know, heresy, madness etc. I was a wee kid at the time and saving up was hard with my zero allowance...
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