Poll: Starcraft 2 normal-$59.99 , Collection Edition-$100

[Gwarr]

Jee , thanks you money hungry bastard!

Let me tell you what the $100 Ce contains
* 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

The bold part: Seriously ? You are bribing WOW gamers to buy Ce. How does that even make sense , Blizzard . What's happened to my favorite gaming company?

I played every Blizzard game starting from Warcraft 1 till now and I am absolutely disgusted . I may end up buying it but it disturbs me that Blizzard is becoming Activision 2 by the minute.


Did I mention this contains only the terran campaign and that the Protos and Zerg will all have their own CE? How money hungry can you get?

 

[Gwarr]

Holy crap? a $60 price point for 1/2 a game?

1/3 You have only terran campaign and multiplayer . DID I mention you need to be always online even to play the single player?

 

[Matt_LRR]

Jee , thanks you money hungry bastard!

Let me tell you what the $100 Ce contains
* 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

The bold part: Seriously ? You are bribing WOW gamers to buy Ce. How does that even make sense , Blizzard . What's happened to my favorite gaming company?

I played every Blizzard game starting from Warcraft 1 till now and I am absolutely disgusted . I may end up buying it but it disturbs me that Blizzard is becoming Activision 2 by the minute.


Did I mention this contains only the terran campaign and that the Protos and Zerg will all have their own CE? How money hungry can you get?

because they're totally the first people to do that.

(I'm looking at you Final Fantasy XIII and Dragon Age).

Edit: seriously, why is that such a big deal? considering half the damned planet plays WoW, it's a pretty safe bet that a significant number of SCII players will be wow players as well. (I am). Why NOT throw in a little extra enticement?

-m

 

[Gwarr]

because they're totally the first people to do that.

(I'm looking at you Final Fantasy XIII and Dragon Age).

-m

Did you saw the content of the CE? Also the game is 1/3 . They'll launch another 3 games god damn it .

Like I said , I'll probably buy ( the normal one ) anyway but I am just disappointed . We'll basically will end up paying 3x$60 bucks just to be able to play online after each xpac.

You, don't think everyone's with you with this blizz hate. Your claims are without ground.
Also, bribing WoW players may not be the best way to get sales, but this is one of the better CEs coming out recently.
Edit: your edit was funny too, where exactly did you read that you'll have to be on all the time?

You do know S2 has a loading screen like WOW right? I'm in the beta , I should know.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Not unless you really want to carry Starcraft 1 around with you.

 

[DividedUnity]

Wait i was thinking of buy this CE but I just found out you only get a third of the game. WTF?

on a side note they arent bribing WoW players. No ones gonna pay 100 dollars for a game they dont want to get something like that

 

[xXDeMoNiCXx]

I wasn't planning on getting this game but still, WTF?

 

[lacktheknack]

They're giving you the original Starcraft and expansion (still about twenty five bucks there), plus more than fifteen dollars worth of extra junk, plus a sixty dollar game. Looks fair to me. If you don't want it,

DON'T BUY IT.

 

[Guy32]

I'm not going to buy it, but I still think that it's a good deal compared to the crap that most CE offer for the same price.

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

As much as I liked the original game, I'm not convinced the NON-collector's edition is worth $60. Sadly, as a Blizzard game, it'll probably still cost nearly that much three years from now (good luck finding WC3 for less than twice what most stuff its age normally sells for), which means that unless they take pity on me and have some magical sale at some point, I'm not playing it for a while. I'm too spoiled by getting games ridiculously cheap these days to pay twice the highest price I've paid for a new game in the past year just for SC2.

 

[Altorin]

Let me tell you what the $100 Ce contains
* The Art of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, a 176-page book featuring artwork from the game

30-40 dollars by itself

* 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

30-40 dollars

* A behind-the-scenes DVD containing over an hour of developer interviews, cinematics with director's commentary, and more

10-20 dollars

* The official StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty soundtrack CD, containing 14 epic tracks from the game along with exclusive bonus tracks

14 dollars

* StarCraft comic book issue #0, a prequel to the comic series

3 dollars

* 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

10 dollars

* 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

10-20 dollars

So even just the bonuses are worth at least as much as the extra content, if not MUCH MUCH more.

If the book is softcover, it'd be about 25 dollars, but if it's hardcover, it'd easily be worth 40 dollars. Custom USB flashdrive with both Starcraft and Broodwars Preloaded onto it? Easily 30 dollars, if not much more. Buying them on Ebay after its release they may cost hundreds each. Behind the Scenes DVDs are hard to price, but they're basically the Required bit of CEs, which are typically 10-20 dollars more then standard, so that's what I priced it. Sound Track CDs cost about 14 bucks. A comic book costs about 3-4 bucks, so I'll say 3. The price of premium WoW pets in the Pet Shop are 10 dollars. Exclusive DLC is easily worth 10 dollars. Depending on how good it is, it could be worth 20.

Even if my numbers are slightly off, I say quit bitching

 

[Altorin]

Holy crap!! a $60 price point for 1/2 a game?

You, research before posting./quote]

What? I guess you could actually say it's only 1/3 of a game becuase there is only a terran campain but it does have a full multiplayer so i rounded up to half.

You, research before telling other people to reaserch.

It's 1 terran campaign that's LONGER then the WHOLE of Starcraft 1.

They're also not releasing Broodwars/LoD style Expansions, so there will be 2 Starcraft 2 Expansions, and you only need to buy them if you care about the single player.

 

[lacktheknack]

Holy crap!! a $60 price point for 1/2 a game?

You, research before posting.

What? I guess you could actually say it's only 1/3 of a game becuase there is only a terran campain but it does have a full multiplayer so i rounded up to half.

You, research before telling other people to reaserch.

Fix'd

And considering how the multi-player is a hilariously massive draw point (see: South Korea's Official Sport), it's at least half the game (1/2), then add a third of the campaign (1/2 + {1/3 / 1/2 = 1/6} = 4/6 = 2/3). So, it's two thirds of the game. But, really the campaign is going to be as satisfying as a full game, so we could really call it a full game. Assuming, of course, that the other sections of the game will be sold for fifteen bucks each (Hey, a man can dream, right?).

EDIT:

It's 1 terran campaign that's LONGER then the WHOLE of Starcraft 1.

They're also not releasing Broodwars/LoD style Expansions, so there will be 2 Starcraft 2 Expansions, and you only need to buy them if you care about the single player.

Here you go. I guess it is worth it after all.

 

[Gwarr]

"reading comprehension fail".

No , that's how the game retail will look . You looked the Blizzcon information? You will need to be 100% online even for single player . Check it out if you haven't.

And I doubt they'll let you play Starcraft 2 WOL when the proto or zerg expansion comes . Either that or you'll be alone as everyone would be moving on( Not saying 2 days after release there will be no WOL matches but in about a year after their prot-zerg xpac launches you will find yourself very isolated.) .

They wont add only new missions , they'll add new units .( either that or I've been misinformed by people I play beta with.)

 

[Trivun]

You're getting massive amounts of content extra for only $40 extra. Here in the UK, those prices round down to:

Starcraft 2: £39.52
Starcraft 2 CE: £65.88

These are numbers I can understand. And since the standard game costs around £40, which is pretty average for a new release over here, it's a question of whether or not you want to pay extra for the extra material.

Now, the price difference is $40.01, or rather, £26.36. What do we get? An art book (176 pages); a 2 GB USB stick, normal retail price for standard being around £7; an exclusive DVD, normal DVD prices being around £10; an exclusive soundtrack CD, normal price being around £8; a comic book where prices are usually at least £5; an in-game pet and downloadable content. How much is DLC for WoW usually? Let's say around £5, since I don't know myself, for all that you would get.

So adding it up, seperately all that would cost around £35-£40, which is considerably more than the £26 price difference.

So yes, from a purely economic point of view, I would say that if you are interested in the free stuff with the limited edition, then yes, it is absolutely worth it. If you don't want the extra stuff then it wouldn't be worth it at any reasonable sale price. But if you want the stuff then it's definitely worth the money, because it's cheaper than getting all the stuff seperately, assuming it's all even available seperately (which it isn't).

Of course, I haven't played Starcraft 2 or ever been interested in it, nor am I interested in buying it in the forseeable future. So really it's all up to you and whether or not you decide personally it's worth your money.

 

[Chase Yojimbo]

truthfully, thats all its gonna be from now on. like, i can understand if you buy the CE and it comes with, say, more in game content. when its nerdy crap like that *except the Raynor Tags with original game, that might be cool* I ain't gonna buy it. Stick to original, on that point though, now they are gonna be bringing out 'expansions' that add benifits to the specific Race of say expansion... and knowing the blizzard of today, probebly be a good $50 US... What has happened to Blizzard, one of the fathers of RTS... i just hope they don't pull any of that BS with Diablo!