Blizzard Announces Diablo III Free Starter Edition

By Brian P Rubin | 14 August 2012 | 9 Comments

Today, Blizzard sent out a press release to announce the Diablo III Free Starter Edition, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Available only through Battle.net, the starter edition, gives brand new players the chance to play through Diablo III’s first act, up to the Skeleton King boss (who, I assume, is both king AND boss of skeletons), and with a level cap of 13, all without having to actually buy the game.

All you have to do is log into Battle.net and sign up for the starter edition through the “Your Game Accounts” section. If you don’t have a Battle.net account, wellsir, then just go sign up for one.

Speaking personally, I won’t be doing this, mainly because it’ll probably make this old laptop sneeze, and also, I got things to do. THINGS TO DO, MAN.

Still, pretty awesome deal for the five or six of you who haven’t yet played Diablo III. More like DIABLO FREE, AMIRITE?

9 Comments

Posted by JMAN on 14 August 12 at 12:58pm

Sweet deal!
Posted by Mark on 14 August 12 at 2:18pm

1460 games right now, gee I wonder why they decided to make a starter edition.
Posted by Void Adept on 14 August 12 at 5:18pm

Well, looks like I’ll be able to kill my computer in style now without forking out the full price tag. Seriously, Blizzard, keep the good work up (especially on Heart of the Swarm).
Posted by smr on 15 August 12 at 10:11am

So it’s basically a demo with a marketing spin.
Posted by Poochop on 15 August 12 at 10:48am

I had starter edition a while back, I think it may have been because I was in beta, but oh well. The game was fun, but now all of my friends have stopped and nobody has touched it for 2 months :\.
Posted by Kapa on 15 August 12 at 10:55am

Well that must be the main reason for this move… There are a lot of people who had enough of DiabloIII already… and lets face it, its not D2… so yeah they are trying to gain some new costumers.

Im still waiting for TL2
Posted by Gail on 15 August 12 at 12:06pm

Diablo III Free Starter Addition: i look forward to anything and everything that comes our way…
Posted by Arathane on 15 August 12 at 3:51pm

Not a bad idea, im assuming its basically what you would get if you used one of the free trial codes from the retail game (i think there were 3 codes that came with mine) I still enjoy Diablo 3, although i am finding Inferno a little more frustrating.

Still, as said above, Not as addictive as Diablo 2
Posted by Chris on 15 August 12 at 6:46pm

Great, new players will get barely a glimpse into the game without seeing any of the horrible letdown it actually is. Nor the ripoff that real cash is. This game is a Blizzard failure.