Hello guys, i have a question. How i can install sc:r in pc where no possibilities to connect to the Internet? if i just copy it on flash-device and move to that pc, it doesnt work, and i cant install bnet laucher without internet connection. Any suggestion. Thx in advice!
SC:R REQUIRES Internet connection EVERY 30 Days to be able to have the game play. There is NO WAY to have the game play permanently Offline.
The āBattle . netā App REQUIRES Internet to DL and Install to the PC/Mac in question. Again, once Installed, āBattle . netā allows you to Install SC:R to the System in question, AND EVERY 30 Days, (IF Offline that long), the System MUST reconnect to the Internet. (To obtain Updates and Patches to both āBattle . netā and the Game(s).)
TimeLord04
If you want to play the paid, remastered content, TImeLord04 is correct.
If you just want to play the standard, free version, you should be able to do so indefinitely.
I just want to be able watch reps, no more. However, thx for answers!
just downlaod the 1.16.1 version dude it is even free ā¦and playable lfrom usb or whateverā¦
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This thread is the exact reason I wonāt be purchasing any more Blizzard games. I bought SC2 last year (late to the party, I know), and I was horrified to find that I have to maintain an internet connection.
I bought SC:R a couple of months later, and was again horrified that I had to maintain an internet connection to have the newer graphics.
For someone who travels around a lot, and who aims to live in the country (I might have internet there, but it certainly wonāt be high quality), I wonāt be buying any more games that require internet connections, even if you only have to connect every 30 days.
Forget it. Blizzard have lost a customer.
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lol o_o so silly.
I lived pretty far out, still internet optionsā¦ Almost the year 2020.
Any paid content of Blizās games need some kind of protection. With SC:R being purely license-based and purely digital, itās necessary to have periodic validation to prevent piracy.
Itās a reality in todayās times with many other developers doing much of the same. And with gaming in general always inching toward fully online, the fact that Bliz allows offline play for any of its game is an exception, a gift. None of their other games do. Even D3, whose single player could be played offline, had itās offline option removed long ago.
You wonāt need high quality to simply authenticate. Even terrible connectivity will suffice for that purpose. That, plus once every 30 days (meaning not a maintained connection), and itās not hard to validate at all.
Well, isnt it possible to ship aroud that, throughā¦
Open Battlenet,launcher-> ( they ask for your user and password) thanyou just go to settings icon ( on the right side ) -> you click than you go on ācontinue without logging inā and clickā¦-> i dont know, if you still need 30 days thing, but cant you just change the date of your computer.> so it is again in the 30 days ā¦?
Also those the first methode need every 30 days login ?
Lol, that argumentation is just stupid -> āand with gaming in general always inching toward fully online, the fact that Bliz allows offline play for any of its game is an exception, a gift. None of their other games do. Even D3, whose single player could be played offline, had itās offline option removed long ago.ā -> So you look at other titels from the same company and think that is a pro? Well, actually it only shows how far this āwatchingā has gone ā¦ A gift ? Are you delusional? Next Chapter -> Lootboxes actually help the clients to clear their bankaccounts, in that way they keep working in a Job and are eternal Slaves!! THX For thisā¦ I always wanted to be a slave !!!
The problem is not only, that internet connection is not required, but there system doesnt even workā¦
First of all, did you know that the SC2 (singele player campaign) pirated version never needed constantly internet connection, so in other words it was a better version than the orginal), secondly the lose of internet connection is always possible, specially with Wifi-> So by the way if you trying to get all the achievements and you end 40 minute mission and you lose your connection one second before the end-> you dont get the achievement, Bravo.
THirdly, it is "really " not secure for the customers safety to have your pc/laptop or whatever connected to the internet 24 hours a day, specially with all the people, agencies, who can just go looking what you are doing,even more when you dont need the V.connection!!!
Fourtly, Windows and many other programms are constantly spying, updating BS., if we just let them do what they want all the time -> Example letting update 24 hours a day constantly BS., your computer, etc. would be trashing out after a week ā¦
By the way the hell do we even need to consider this ?
THere is V. no need, so out with it !!!
Specially on the older games, that never needed such BS. ā¦
Why should the customer trust companies that release halffinished games without features they promised for launch ? Companies that want money and money, but dont even trust the customers and just lie to them and steal their data, doing with it what they want ā¦
Why must the customers always trust ? And they dont ā¦
WE V. pay for these V. Produkts, dude ā¦ OF course we can demand, specially since we are constantly investing in them ā¦ Something they seems to forget all to often, when they are looking at their shareholdersā¦
THe consumer is also an investor ā¦
I dont know your situation but many just dont have or cant be connected all the time, further there is no need to be slaves to a company, sure we can be gratefull, but not for little changes that actually are just small waves not the big ones ā¦
Your complete thread has some valid points, but it is called trustā¦ IF you make good games and treat the customer good enough, there is no need for such an overprotection. But the thing is not that they are trying to protect their game for piracy, but they are constantly using that argument to steal data from their customers. Data by the way, they are using not only to increase their profits through marketing, etc. , but also to throw the customers with load of advertisments and media brainwashingā¦
And who knows where your information ends ā¦
IT is not uncommon to sell it to other companies, etc.
ANd i hope they are not doing that ā¦
Did you really thought starcraft RM free version was āfreeā ? Well it is not, you are paying with information, and an awfull launcher, who doesnt start if you dont have fall into the right ācustomer sectionā -> Windows 7, 8 etc. though there is of course also security question here on both ends ā¦ But all happens through the so "important " Battlenet launcer ā¦ -> Go figure
No BIg brother!!!
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I guess WarCraft I, WarCraft 2, StarCraft, WarCraft 3, etc. made Blizzard broke with only having CD-key protectionā¦
the fact that Bliz allows offline play for any of its game is an exception, a gift
No, a gift is freely given. The customers are paying. This ālicense-basedā system is just to give Blizzard the power: customers are no longer ābuyingā games, they are simply ālicensingā them. Meaning the companies can simply say, āWeāll ban your account, and youāll have to create a new account and re-license all your games again so we get more money.ā
Yes, this exact thing happened to me with SC2!! I had a loss of internet connection about a minute before completing the final objective, and then had to re-do the mission to get the achievements. A waste of almost an hour.
The constant internet connection and the monthly fee is the very reason I never played World of Warcraft, and never will.
The truth is, when customers buy things, they want to be able to own them. If the companies want to provide extra stuff for purchase, then okay, but to make everything ālicense-basedā will absolutely cripple a company if they make a mistake with their customers.
With having to be permanently online, when a server goes down and there are thousands of people trying to re-connect, itās incredibly frustrating to be in a queue when I only want to play single-player.
And the constant adverts are incredibly frustrating. If Blizzard are making their money through adverts, then make the game free. Itās just all about the money for Blizzard. One of the āupdatesā for SC2 involved a screen where the scientist guy was buzzing around and things were happening. It was just a big ad for some purchasable content. All the commotion slowed everything down to do with the menus that I decided not to play SC2 until the next update came out and he had gone.
Iām wondering whether to buy Warcraft Reforged. If it requires a constant internet connection, then I wonāt bother.
I seriously doubt all this is about āsecurityā and āpiracyā. Itās more about having control and being able to force ads at people. (Note: ads donāt work on me as I make a point of never clicking them!)
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And, of course, letās not forget that Blizzard removed StarEditā¦ part of the software that people thought they were getting, suddenly gone, because āthe powers that beā decided it was no longer to be included. Sure, they suggested an alternative, and sure, they re-provided it.
The fact is, with this ālicence-basedā system, Blizzard can do whatever they please and itās the customer that suffers, suddenly finding that their money didnāt pay for things they thought they had paid for.
What an idiot. Scmdraft2 has been the leading mapping tool for many many many many patches. You obviously have never mapped seriously. If you are going to hate on blizzard at least have some valid points.
Like that their custumer service for these classic games and remasterd starcraft is abysmal.
There is that too.
I have made many maps with StarEdit, not just multiplayer maps, but whole single-player campaigns with complex trigger systems. I knew it inside out. SCMDraft does have a lot more features, but it takes a lot of getting used to, which is pretty difficult when itās just forced on you.
Iād be interested to know how you define āserious mappingā, as if people are simply inadequate if they use StarEdit. I could use the phrase āWhat an idiotā too.
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Stop insulting people,jerk!!!
First of all Staredit is the orginal mapmaker-> a mapmaker which all people messed around after some campaigning in the old days, second->
Scmdraft2 is based on it, it may be better, but didnt Scmdraft 2 have a āprogramm not usable bugā,which didnt let you use it at the same time they patched the orginal editor out ?
I know about that because i actually tried to edit at that time ā¦ Not only that, Scmdraft 2 has a history with not letting you in, because it doesnt find your Starcraft folders, and when you try to choose it, it just doesnt work ā¦ THat is just one of the buggs it had over the years.
Dont misunderstand me it is an better programm, when it works ā¦
But Staredit was in the package with the new release, i can understand the problems and ressources going into it for every new patch, but just to delete it from your Starcraft folder is a āno goā,why not just letting the launcher there, sure the maps you make wouldnt work on the new patches, but still it is a part of starcraft history, and BLizzard eradicated it.
What is the next step ? THe extinction of the hole old artwork and graphics ?
Intrestingly, didnt Blizzard or whoever is connected with this release destroyed and declared total war to many, if not most of the communities work, that actually improved the game and the tools to make out of it an better experience?
-> Chaos launcher
-> Shield battery
etc.
The didnt even reach their range nor will they in the following years ā¦
-> Bwapi, etc.
Team ladder
-> iccup
-> fish server
ā¦
OF course most are gratefull for the new graphics, new sound, better UI, more options, new players/ new old players
But dont forget the prize
-> Scorched earth lies behind us, uncountable bodies of extraordinary projects in blood and in ash, unrecognizable, a korean maelstrom, paralyzed only to slowly grow again, and new players uncertain how the future can look, with so little progress to regain the lost strengthā¦
No Big Brother!!!
Thanks Leonix, you make a good case for StarEdit.
You are correct that when Blizzard - in their great wisdom(!) - authoritarianly removed StarEdit and recommended SCMDraft 2, that SCMDraft 2 didnāt work. I was in the middle of making a 2-player campaign for me and a friend when suddenly StarEdit was no more and I couldnāt use SCMDraft 2 for a few days.
It also seems that with every new patch, SCMDraft 2 has to be tweaked. And it seems that with every new patch, there are bugs that require additional patches/updates. At the moment, Iām living in an area with semi-decent internet. When I move to the country and have to connect every 30 days, Iāll always have an update. At the moment, even the shortest updates take about 10 minutes, but Iāve had some take almost an hour. Imagine what itāll be like with even worse internet. Iāll be back to the original StarCraft with the old graphics, played from my original CDsā¦ because they will still work and they are not ludicrously ālicence-basedā.
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Nightmare begins !!!
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Tldr, you both state its a better program.
Enough said.
Personally, I find āTldrā the height of laziness. Why comment on a discussion if you canāt be bothered to read it properly?
SCMDraft 2 is a different program that seems to have bugs with every SC patch that comes out. āBetterā is all about personal opinion. Personally, I think āmore complexā is more apt to describe it. Some of us prefer StarEdit, thatās all.
You donāt have to insult people just because they have different preferences to you.
StarEdit was having similar problems. Even the final, working version Bliz released came with a warning that it will likely start breaking down again as the game is changed over time.
Plus, Sinsanity has been pretty quick at keeping up with the SCR patches.
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