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On April 09 2010 07:58 Wintermute wrote:Show nested quote +On April 09 2010 07:57 Zzoram wrote:On April 09 2010 07:54 whaTITdoz wrote: All I want is a digital download of starcraft 2... screw going to the store! If you buy a boxed copy, you can link your serial key to your Battle.net account and download it if you want. Buy if it's the same price, why not get the box AND the download version, instead of just the download version? So you don't have to go to the store and wait in line with other nerds?
Get it shipped to your house then. Best Buy has free shipping over $40.
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On April 09 2010 07:59 Zzoram wrote:Show nested quote +On April 09 2010 07:58 Wintermute wrote:On April 09 2010 07:57 Zzoram wrote:On April 09 2010 07:54 whaTITdoz wrote: All I want is a digital download of starcraft 2... screw going to the store! If you buy a boxed copy, you can link your serial key to your Battle.net account and download it if you want. Buy if it's the same price, why not get the box AND the download version, instead of just the download version? So you don't have to go to the store and wait in line with other nerds? Get it shipped to your house then. Best Buy has free shipping over $40.
Then you don't get it on date of release.
I'll be standing in line at midnight with all the other nerds, because it's worth it to me. I was just answering the question of why some one might prefer a digital download. Me personally, I like to have the physical media to set my drinks on, as well as the book and little flippy charts to read on the toilet.
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getting it for the wow pet, so that i can resell it to make a profit WOOT!
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On April 09 2010 02:01 Jackafur wrote: Im ashamed to say this.... but the only thing i like about this is...
- 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
Which I'm very ashamed of.
yea, this is disgraceful. blizzard had to meld sc2, which could have been the gentleman's RTS of the 21st century, with all the other age of accounts mmorpg micro-transaction bullshit.
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On April 09 2010 08:18 StorrZerg wrote: getting it for the wow pet, so that i can resell it to make a profit WOOT!
haha agreed
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The shop I had SC2 pre-ordered at (since 2007!!) just called me as I was reading this thread and asked if I'd like to move my deposit over to a reserved copy of the collector's edition, now that's cool!
I accepted of course 
WoW pet selling time!
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- 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
If anyone had doubts Blizzard is trying to milk us for money...
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On April 09 2010 08:27 Chuiu wrote:Show nested quote +- 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 If anyone had doubts Blizzard is trying to milk us for money...
If Blizzard wanted to milk us for money, we would be playing Starcraft 7 by now.
Come now people, you have odd standards for what counts as ripping people off.
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Average Price for new PC games in Germany is 43.99€ which equals to 59$ So 60$ for a new PC game is standard in Germany since almost forever
SC2 however is set to be sold for 54€ which equals 72$
T_T
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This is gonna be epic, a new pet, new books en the best game ever in one edition
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the thors will sell on ebay for well over $40 eventually i bet, ofsetting the cost difference.
I generally get these things just to have the nice box and display it.
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They updated with images of the pet, disks, artbook cover and I guess the alternate thor.
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preorder the SC2: CE on gamestop.com with code ENT20 to bring the cost from $100 to $80. Coupon expires 4/10
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On April 09 2010 08:27 Chuiu wrote:Show nested quote +- Exclusive Battle.net downloadable content, including special portraits for your Battle.net profile, decals to customize your units in-game, and a visually unique version of the terran Thor unit If anyone had doubts Blizzard is trying to milk us for money... Who had any doubts after the Activision merger?
Come on people, you really shouldn't act so surprised.
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On April 09 2010 09:13 Pplusad wrote: Average Price for new PC games in Germany is 43.99€ which equals to 59$ So 60$ for a new PC game is standard in Germany since almost forever
SC2 however is set to be sold for 54€ which equals 72$
T_T amazon.de has it for 59.99€. 1:1 dollar euro conversion. Now thats what I call a rip-off. Gonna buy the UK version anyways, since German interface and unit sounds always suck ass compared to the original.
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- 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
Can someone explain this part? What are "decals" to customize my in-game units? Is it something like additional skins for units? And will the units change be visible to everyone who plays with me or just for me? Same question for the new visually unique Thor. I am confused...
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If 10 dollars more is too much for you to pay. Then don't buy the game, the rest of us will enjoy it. I will pick up this collector's edition, because think of it this way. Even if the wow pet sells for a relatively low ebay price of 30 dollars, that brings the cost of the game down to 70 bucks, so in the end you'll pay 10 dollars more over standard for a bunch of extra items. I don't buy collector's editions unless I've been waiting a long time for a game, and suffice it say, I've been waiting for SC2 for half my life (literally since I was only 12 in 1998).
Edit: People can say all they want that 'breaking the game into three is milking us' but the fact of the matter is it is One game and two expansions. There is no chance at all that the two subsequent SC2 releases will be $60 dollars. $60 dollars is the standard price for video games these days, I will never for the life of me understand why people take every opportunity to complain about every product every company releases these days. Its too much money, its too long in development, and a myriad of other things, how about this - If you don't like the product boycott it..... It's an option widely available to everyone. Otherwise buy the game and play it.
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$60 seems a bit up there....
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wtf, I cant believe people are complaining about $60. In the early 90s I use to pay $80 for console games. A night out on the town can easily cost $60 if not much more. $60 for thousands of hours of entertainment sounds like a fucking great deal to me.
Collectors edition sounds pretty good too. I think I will get it.
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