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Minecraft servers are alive, there are a lot of free servers, you can download official client and play without any problems at all. This is not exactly true wi

by piranha 13y ago

Minecraft servers are alive, there are a lot of free servers, you can download official client and play without any problems at all. This is not exactly true with Starcraft (crappy resolution, not sure if Battle.net is still running, where to buy it?).

anonymoushn 13y ago
After googling "buy starcraft", "buy homeworld", and "buy touhou", I've discovered that you can buy Starcraft and Brood War for $15 from Blizzard at http://us.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=110000124 http://us.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=110000124 , you can buy a sealed copy of Touhou 6 at http://www.paletweb.com/selectpage.asp?code=00053 http://www.paletweb.com/selectpage.asp?code=00053 , and you can probably only buy Homeworld used. Homeworld's official Battle.net-equivalent (WON?) survived less than two years after the game's launch, but I think you can still play Starcraft on Battle.net. Fortunately both of these games are from an era when devs shipped games with LAN support, so you can play normally over hamachi or garena even after Battle.net and WON disappear. Touhou 6 is a single-player game, so there's not much use worrying about servers.
- piranha 13y ago
  Ok, as I thought more about it, Stargus with it's halted development and non-playable state doesn't make any sense, so I removed it. Homeworld-SDL still makes sense as it's playable under Linux. I'm not going to add minetest as it makes absolutely no sense there.
drdaeman 13y ago
Last time I checked Minecraft wasn't free software, nor open source. And when I've seen the OP title, I expected the list to be a list of FOSS re-implementations of proprietary games.
- piranha 13y ago
  Not all of them though. Things which are dead and not playable are not included. Things which have code of questionable source (i.e. stolen or something like that) are not included. And clones of Minecraft are not included as well, just because this doesn't make sense to me.

by piranha 13y ago

anonymoushn 13y ago

After googling "buy starcraft", "buy homeworld", and "buy touhou", I've discovered that you can buy Starcraft and Brood War for $15 from Blizzard at http://us.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=110000124 http://us.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=110000124 , you can buy a sealed copy of Touhou 6 at http://www.paletweb.com/selectpage.asp?code=00053 http://www.paletweb.com/selectpage.asp?code=00053 , and you can probably only buy Homeworld used. Homeworld's official Battle.net-equivalent (WON?) survived less than two years after the game's launch, but I think you can still play Starcraft on Battle.net. Fortunately both of these games are from an era when devs shipped games with LAN support, so you can play normally over hamachi or garena even after Battle.net and WON disappear. Touhou 6 is a single-player game, so there's not much use worrying about servers.

piranha 13y ago
Ok, as I thought more about it, Stargus with it's halted development and non-playable state doesn't make any sense, so I removed it. Homeworld-SDL still makes sense as it's playable under Linux. I'm not going to add minetest as it makes absolutely no sense there.

drdaeman 13y ago

Last time I checked Minecraft wasn't free software, nor open source. And when I've seen the OP title, I expected the list to be a list of FOSS re-implementations of proprietary games.

piranha 13y ago
Not all of them though. Things which are dead and not playable are not included. Things which have code of questionable source (i.e. stolen or something like that) are not included. And clones of Minecraft are not included as well, just because this doesn't make sense to me.