I want to do this because my CD-drive is refusing to open, and I don't wanna break it open.
Has anyone ever tried this method to get the game? Or is it just impossible in the first place, and I was mistaken?
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I've heard that if you have a CD-Key, you can go to Blizzard to download the full game from them.
I want to do this because my CD-drive is refusing to open, and I don't wanna break it open.
Has anyone ever tried this method to get the game? Or is it just impossible in the first place, and I was mistaken?
I want to do this because my CD-drive is refusing to open, and I don't wanna break it open.
Has anyone ever tried this method to get the game? Or is it just impossible in the first place, and I was mistaken?
I've been looking for someway to do this, but I can't find anything on the Blizzard websites.
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You gotta bind the key to your battle.net account (formerly blizzard account) then you can download it.
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Hear me Raor!!
Yeah its easy, it will give you like a 26 online key and you just use that when you get the game from battle.net.
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Alright, I got it to work.
Thanks for the help guys.
Thanks for the help guys.
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[2026-6-26. : 10:31 am]
NudeRaider -- blessed innocent soul knows nothing of the strife we had before EUDs were discovered 
[2026-6-23. : 3:29 am]
DarkenedFantasies -- Probably just didn't care. For example, at some point before release, they've updated the graphics of some of the Protoss buildings (Forge, CyberCore, Citadel, Observatory, Arbiter Tribunal), but instead of properly re-rendering them with edited 3D models, they did crappy copy-paste jobs on the rendered graphics.
[2026-6-21. : 4:56 am]
Ultraviolet -- I suppose we'll likely never know, but my guess would be that they already saw it operating successfully and there was no monetary incentive to finish the original work. And the dev cycle in old school Blizzard was so hectic, it's possible it just got forgotten about after the original game got released. Plus there's an element of existing MPQ files that were packaged with the original discs becoming outdated if they updated it. And it's not like they remade the original MPQs, they just made new ones for BW specifically[2026-6-21. : 4:26 am]
Oh_Man -- so that makes me think maybe the theory they are unfinished is not true and its a deliberate design decision, coz why not finish them wen ur making brood war?[2026-6-21. : 4:25 am]
Oh_Man -- the thing is thos buildings are from classic. that means they went ahead and made brood war without ever finishing the 'unfinished' buildings[2026-6-20. : 6:15 pm]
Ultraviolet -- Yeah he's talked about a lot of that stuff in his casts before. It seems plausible. Especially knowing how Blizzard of yesteryear operated.[2026-6-20. : 3:47 pm]
NudeRaider -- to clarify: couldn't recall the behavior for every single Protoss building but I was aware the disparity exists.[2026-6-20. : 3:43 pm]
NudeRaider -- Contained nothing new for me. Didn't know all building's behavior, but very much all unit's. Also Terran balance whine - also nothing new 
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