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yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Meanwhile StarCraft, one of the most pervasive rts for its time and in the PC gaming sphere in general … let you have multiple people play multiplayer on a single disk. Offline. It’s kinda like it advertised itself and people went out to buy it… which influenced more people… who bought it… gasp.

Mindblowing.

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Yermaw@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Legend has it the original Worms was similar. The DRM was a notepad readme that basically said “share me with your friends but buy a copy if you really like it please”

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- yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  mmmm banana bombs, holy hand grenades, and those cursed shopping levels * shudder *
  
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very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
And it still has a thriving competitive scene more than 25 years later.

In fact, ASL (the biggest SC tournament) is going on right now!

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- yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Funny how that works. ;)
  
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