July 2002: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos released, selling more than one million copies in first three weeks. It sets the record for the fastest-selling PC game ever.Ģ001: An expansion to the Diablo sequel, “Diablo II: Lord of Destruction,” is released and sells more than one million copies in the first month. March 1998: “StarCraft” launches, selling 1 million copies in first three months.Ģ000: Diablo II is released, selling 1 million copies in first two weeks. A half-million copies of Diablo sell within the first few months. About 50,000 copies are sold in the first weekend.ĭecember 1996: Release of action-role-playing game “Diablo” and, one of the early forms of multiplayer gaming online. The game wins PC Gamer’s Editors Choice award and best strategy game of 1994.ĭecember 1995: “Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness” is released and wins Game of the Year award from PC Gamer. November 1994: Silicon & Synapse renames itself to Blizzard Entertainment and publishes its first Warcraft game, “Warcraft: Orcs & Humans,” available as a DOS CD-ROM and floppy disk for $45. Best known titles include Rock ‘n Roll Racing. The company develops games for other publishing houses. Not sure though as I'm not a lawyer either.1991: Allen Adham, Michael Morhaime and Frank Pearce start a game company called Silicon & Synapse. Hmm, maybe "all files that are delivered to you" means the package in its entirety? If it said, "any files", then it would mean that the DOSBox files on their own are also subject to this clause.Īs for the "purchase date" I suppose that the act of downloading from Blizzard might be considered "purchase" (for the price of $0), similar to how free games from GOG.com are technically games that cost $0. ![]() In other words, the Blizzard EULA tries to override the GPL, despite Blizzard agreeing to abide by the GPL when they created the package for distribution. I'm not a lawyer but I would also question the validity of the EULA given that it says you are not permitted to distribute "all files that are delivered to you" yet some of the files include a DOSBox launcher covered under the GPL licence which specifically allows you to distribute the (included) source. Malvineous wrote:It's obviously a generic EULA they haven't bothered to tailor for the game, because it talks about a warranty of 90 days from the purchase date. Snag a free copy while you can, just in case! I will update the "freeware" status of both games on the site. There's also nothing to stop Blizzard from taking the download down, like Rockstar did with their free copies of Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto 2, and Wild Metal. They are giving it away for free - so it's freeware - but it's not redistributable, so it's not really what I consider "full" freeware. It looks like only Blizzard has a right to host downloads of that file. Since the rest of the document contains no exceptions for making the game available to download from a website, there appears to be no exceptions to the prohibition on copying or reproducing the game. ![]() I think "except as provided herein" means that you can't copy or reproduce the game, unless exceptions are listed within the document.
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