lordjedi said:Nanner Split said:lordjedi said:The funny thing is, you can't BUY Starcraft from them without getting it as a digital download. So why don't you go try to buy a 10 year old game (aside from a digital download) and see how easy it is? I'm sure you could get a used copy, just like you can get a used copy of XP, but I seriously doubt you can find a new unopened box anywhere.
WRONG! Every time I go into Wal-Mart I see this: Starcraft Battle Chest
That's the Battlechest. You can't buy a standalone copy of Starcraft. If we were to compare this to Microsoft, it would be like only wanting Word 2007, but being forced to buy the whole Office suite (even if it is for a lower price).
. . . so I think this is a moot point.
You didn't say a "standalone copy." You said it's only available by "digital download" and Nanner was merely correcting that specific statement of yours. (Also, I highly doubt he was trying to make any "point" about our discussion, so I think your last post was barking up the wrong tree there.)
Otherwise, the rest of what you said about StarCraft shows that you know nothing about the game (which you should if you're going to keep acting like you're an expert on every subject in the world). StarCraft is not StarCraft if you don't have the Brood War expansion (the campaign additions and the changes the expansion made to the core multiplayer game were immense). Your analogy equating StarCraft: Brood War to Microsoft Word and getting the whole, expensive Office Suite is lame and makes very little sense to me (StarCraft without Brood War would be more like settling for Windows 95's "Wordpad" and not even getting MS Word [or an equivalent] in the first place!).
At any rate, Brood War was released in the fall of 1998 so the combined product of that battle chest has been supported by Blizzard for over ten years now. If you think it's "moot" to say that Blizzard's product support doesn't outweigh Microsoft's product support, well . . . I guess you're allowed to think that, but it sounds silly to me. :)