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Starcraft 2 will be FREE for WoW players in Korea

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caseeker
Profile Joined April 2010
United States63 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-24 16:25:17
June 24 2010 07:00 GMT
#1
The blizzard had media day for starcraft 2 today, and they have announced few things.

1. Starcraft 2 will be free for WOW players. While you have the wow subscription on the battle.net account, you can just play starcraft 2 for free. (so its not wow subscription anymore, its battle.net 2.0 subscription)

2. There will be no package for Starcraft 2, Blizzard will only sell digital download copy. the price will be around $59

3. If you don't want to buy package, you can also buy Starcraft 2 subscription, one day subscription will be about $2 and one month will be $10

4. There won't be Adult version (if you didn't know, they cut all the scenes and made it teen version)

5. There won't be collector's edition

*Edited* 6. There will be open beta "after" release date. (so weird, I don't think they can call it open "beta")

What do you guys think? I feel sorry for Korean. Well wow players will love this policy

So many people wanted blizzard to announce the collectors edition for Korea today.. now blizzard took out the regular package from them.. Seriously, digital download sucks..
I know that package market is dead in Korea, but I also know that many people would still buy blizzard's game.

There was no announcement for "pro version with lan" thing or plan for starcraft 2 league.

*for people who couldn't pre-order collectors edition yet, walmart and bestbuy still have collectors edition.

original post

This is my blog that I just made few days ago, I will upload some strategy guide and stuff as well please visit sometimes

*Edited* people are complaining about 2 things
1. no package
2. no CE
Of course these are bad things for fans, so stop posting those "why people complaining?" posts :p
Turbo.Tactics
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany675 Posts
June 24 2010 06:32 GMT
#2
So, less private playing at home and more PC Bang players?
Zerg - because Browders sons hate 'em
Yuma
Profile Joined May 2009
United States51 Posts
June 24 2010 06:33 GMT
#3
This is interesting and im happy to live in U.S
Death is on your left side about an arms distance behind you.-Don Juan
caseeker
Profile Joined April 2010
United States63 Posts
June 24 2010 06:33 GMT
#4
I guess so
caseeker
Profile Joined April 2010
United States63 Posts
June 24 2010 06:33 GMT
#5
Feel free to fix my English! I would appreciate
ayababa
Profile Joined May 2010
Australia347 Posts
June 24 2010 06:39 GMT
#6
On June 24 2010 15:33 caseeker wrote:
Feel free to fix my English! I would appreciate


nar i kinda liked it, made me feel like i was right there in the korean air hanger :p

*your english is fine btw!
Well done is better than well said - Benjamin Franklin
anch
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States5457 Posts
June 24 2010 06:44 GMT
#7
sounds like constant income for Blizzard.
Either way they want your money and want you to play WoW.
darmousseh
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States3437 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-24 06:50:39
June 24 2010 06:50 GMT
#8
Sucks for Korea. That's what happens when governments try to regulate the video game industry.
Developer for http://mtgfiddle.com
MangoTango
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States3670 Posts
June 24 2010 06:50 GMT
#9
Wait, is this announcement only applicable to Korea? I'm confused.
"One fish, two fish, red fish, BLUE TANK!" - Artosis
theuser
Profile Joined June 2008
Romania176 Posts
June 24 2010 06:51 GMT
#10
wtf?? so they just want to get in all the WoW players in sc2? Oh my god...
caseeker
Profile Joined April 2010
United States63 Posts
June 24 2010 06:52 GMT
#11
@MangoTango Yes, only for Korea.
Dreamexpress
Profile Joined April 2010
80 Posts
June 24 2010 06:52 GMT
#12
I guess eventually we will all be paying monthly subscription for blizzard games.
Not saying if its good or bad, but it seems like that is what they want.
Shinshady
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1237 Posts
June 24 2010 06:53 GMT
#13
At least Stork will get to play SC2 lol... hopefully he'll play that instead of WoW even though he has a WoW subscription
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Rkie
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1278 Posts
June 24 2010 06:54 GMT
#14
yay EVEN MORE people that will benefit from the newbie friendly system that blizzard wanted to focus on! oh wait, never mind, they are korean...
Megaphone
Profile Joined April 2010
United States64 Posts
June 24 2010 07:03 GMT
#15
What are you people talking about? How could this possibly be bad for Koreans?

If you want to buy the game ($59), you have unlimited access to battle.net.

If you want to play subscription based, you pay $10 a month, but don't have to buy the game. You can also play the game for one day for $2.

Blizzard donating ~600,000,000 won to the Korean Student Aid Foundation?

Free for WoW players?

Extra free open beta time at launch so everybody can try the game out?

I... I don't get it. Why is this bad again? Or do you guys just.. not read?


waffling1
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
599 Posts
June 24 2010 07:04 GMT
#16
it's a smart move to pull wow players over to sc2, and at least contribute to the esports revenue.
jacen
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Austria3644 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-24 07:08:21
June 24 2010 07:07 GMT
#17
would be cool if this was for europe too
since all small game shops i bought my collectors edition from are out of business since at least a year, i will be getting the download version anyway.

btw:
On June 24 2010 16:03 Megaphone wrote:
I... I don't get it. Why is this bad again? Or do you guys just.. not read?

i SO agree.
(micronesia) lol we aren't going to just permban you (micronesia) "we" excludes Jinro
caseeker
Profile Joined April 2010
United States63 Posts
June 24 2010 07:11 GMT
#18
Yeah, everything is fine, except 4 and 5
nerds need package :p
Polar_Nada
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States1548 Posts
June 24 2010 07:13 GMT
#19
wow thats a lot of interesting news O_O
[ReD]NaDa and fnaticMSI.SEn fighting~! ::POlar @ UC Irvine::
520
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States2822 Posts
June 24 2010 07:14 GMT
#20
I wish they would do the free for WoW players thing for NA too. >_>
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