How to get the free version of StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War: And Mac users can get the game too.Īside from widescreen and windowed mode support, there is a new observer mode, among many changes which you can find at the download section linked below. That's because the PTR version was buggy, and the company seems to have fixed the issues with patch 1.18, and has released StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War for free. We reported the news about the classic RTS game going free about a month ago, but it was only available in the Public Test Real (PTR) version, until now. StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War are now free, Blizzard announced in a post on its website.