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StarCraft 2 Pricing, Collector's Edition Announced
by Alice O'Connor, Apr 08, 2010 8:13am PDT
Blizzard has announced a $99.99 Collector's Edition for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, packing goodies including a 176-page art book, a 'Thor' unit pet for World of Warcraft and the original StarCraft plus expansion on a USB thumb drive shaped like protagonist Jim Raynor's dog tag.
Currently in closed beta, Wings of Liberty is the first part of the StarCraft II trilogy. Blizzard promises to reveal the release date "in the coming weeks" but it was still slated for the first half of 2010 as recently as February.
Blizzard also reveals that the standard edition of its PC and Mac RTS sequel will cost $59.99 and that its digital release will follow "shortly after [the retail] release."
"We've been looking forward to revisiting the StarCraft universe with our players for over 10 years, and we wanted to offer an epic collector's edition that commemorated the occasion," said Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime. "This special version of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty--easily our biggest collector's edition to date--does just that, and we think StarCraft II gamers will really enjoy all of the exclusive contents."
The full list of Collector's Edition goodies follows below.
- The Art of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, a 176-page book featuring artwork from the game
- An exclusive 2GB USB flash drive replica of Jim Raynor's dog tag, which comes preloaded with the original StarCraft and the StarCraft: Brood War expansion set
- A behind-the-scenes DVD containing over an hour of developer interviews, cinematics with director's commentary, and more
- The official StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty soundtrack CD, containing 14 epic tracks from the game along with exclusive bonus tracks
- StarCraft comic book issue #0, a prequel to the comic series
- A World of Warcraft mini Thor in-game pet that can be applied to all World of Warcraft characters on a single Battle.net account
- Exclusive Battle.net downloadable content, including special portraits for your Battle.net profile, decals to customize your units in-game, and a visually unique version of the terran Thor unit
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Activision-Blizzard. $10 of every sale goes towards Bobby's new yacht foundation.
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That's 92$ US
When a 60$ US game comes out, it's either 110 or 120$ AUD (102+ US)
I'd be _more_ than fucking happy to pay 60$ US and infact, if I can find a way to, I will pay 60$ US, so sick of the bullshit Aussie tax. No doubt they'll pull a Steam Europe and charge 100$ AUD for digital download and not 60$ US so I may need to go through asia.
As for the collectors edition, I've only bought one recently and that was GTA4 which in my mind is bigger than jesus, so it was worth it. I'd love SC2 and I'll get it asap but I see no real value, the game is the game, most of those trinkets are worthless :(
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Since future versions of Starcraft II will only be a single player add-on, those should come in a little cheaper. But time will tell.
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i don't get these people that cry $60 is too much for a game that you can only either Love, or Hate. There is no inbetween with Starcraft. I for one missed out on SC1, I was busy playing CNC and ZeroHour. Now that EA has destroyed CNC once and for all, I will get into SC2.
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Also, venturing out of the latest chatty scares me. What's up, weirdos!
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http://i46.tinypic.com/raxog7.jpg
Diablo 2 was $60 on release:
http://www.bluesnews.com/a/44
B-B-BU ACTIVIZZION!
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He is the man behind Blizzard's entire style and I can't wait to see what he did for Starcraft 2. Ever since I saw the drawings in the first Warcraft I manual, I was hooked.
Google his work, its awesome.
That book would probably go for $20-25 dollars or more at a bookstore, and it'll probably be pretty amazing.
1 sell here, on account of Mr. Samwise.
Or about 140USD for the CE -.-
Its not 1/3 of the game its a full game and there will be 2 expansion packs
The only maps which will cost money are the ones which are basically mods (the map maker is powerful).
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$100 is a lot of money to me, so I'll still probably just go with the standard version... but only with some regret.
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I want the Diablo 3 Collector's Edition more though. :[
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The WoW pet most likely will be tied to the SC2 Collector's edition gamekey and, like the article says, also tied to your battle.net to be enabled on WoW.
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I got the standard retail from Amazon for $39.99 though :(
Or I could probably pre-order it, sell the pre-order on launch day, and use the profits to get the regular edition for free.
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