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Icarox
Profile Joined January 2011
Sweden78 Posts
March 01 2012 08:17 GMT
#561
40 bux is piece of piss, I really dislike peoples self-entitlement to think that 40 USD is worth for Blizzard to host servers and keep patching their game for years. And to do so without a monthly fee. They've made a campaign and all different types of content, and people whine about all those thousands of man hours not being cheap enough for them.

For 40$, people sure do entitle themselves to way too much. That's half a days work, for a AAA-game that took millions to make, and even more to promote. People ought to study the business model that AAA games follow to realize how groundless their complaint is about a game costing 40$.

Oh, and that extra that you put up through buying it through Teamliquid is worth it. Consider it a helping hand towards the Nr.1 Starcraft 2-community on the net.
Blasterion
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
China10272 Posts
March 01 2012 09:00 GMT
#562
The big question for me is... Will they have a Collector's Edition with a WoW pet and SC2 Portraits.
[TLNY]Mahjong Club Thread
Koshi
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Belgium38799 Posts
March 01 2012 09:10 GMT
#563
Jeezus, how cheap is that, will probably be 30€in Europe then. Unless the use the business model of Steam. Where 5$=5€.
I had a good night of sleep.
windsupernova
Profile Joined October 2010
Mexico5280 Posts
March 01 2012 12:00 GMT
#564
On March 01 2012 11:38 RTSDealer wrote:
Wouldn't recommend pre-ordering a Blizzard game since it takes so long.

Save that money and invest it on something else and when Blizzard makes an official announcement about the final release date, that's the time to pre-order.


I preordered Duke Nukem forever.
The store closed down
"Its easy, just trust your CPU".-Boxer on being good at games
ChriseC
Profile Joined December 2010
Germany440 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-01 12:45:09
March 01 2012 12:37 GMT
#565
i guess some people dont know how much work it takes to make computergames.

40dollar (around 30-35euro for me) is totaly fine for an expansion. i would much more lol about events taking 20dollar for 1 weekend of sc2 (mlg), thats were u can complain about, but still... people should learn to spend their money for quality
david0925
Profile Joined September 2010
212 Posts
March 01 2012 13:30 GMT
#566
lol, people bitch about paying 40 bucks for an expansion but fork over 15 dollars a month for WoW and 25 bucks for each pet/mount

As long as the campaign and free multiplayer is worth 40 bucks to you, buy it. Otherwise, don't

Cereb
Profile Joined November 2011
Denmark3388 Posts
March 01 2012 14:13 GMT
#567
Some people are so spoiled it's getting ridiculous. How can anyone actually complain about 40$ ?? Are you living in the streets or wtf?

Im piss poor at the moment because of studies but I'm still gonna pay that easily for thousands of hours of entertainment. Hell, I'd easily pay 100$ for the expansion to this masterpiece.

It's getting abit tiring reading about people on these forum who are outraged that [Insert: league/game/event/feature] is going to cost money. Tournaments should all be free regardless of the situation and games should cost 0.99 $ on release and have every feature that people can come up with in their own spoiled head.

It must be so frustrating making any kind of stuff for you people. And the price isn't even final yet! Argh!
"Until the very very top in almost anything, all that matters is how much work you put in. The only problem is most people can't work hard even at things they do enjoy, much less things they don't have a real passion for. -Greg "IdrA" Fields
drgoats
Profile Joined March 2010
United States310 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-01 14:31:41
March 01 2012 14:25 GMT
#568
$40 is a steal for me considering the amount of time I have put into WoL. I am not surprised people are complaining about the price considering all of the pitchforking going on these days.

Fun Fact: Final Fantasy 3 in the states cost $90. Yes, $90. It was a whole game, but we are talking about back in the late 1990s when products were generally cheaper than nowadays. I was probably making $5 an hour then flipping burgers but I found a way to purchase it. $40 for a full Zerg campaign, new ladder units, and hundreds upon hundreds of hours of fun is a really good deal.
TRnoSki
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United Kingdom51 Posts
March 01 2012 14:31 GMT
#569
Any idea when it will be out to pre-order in EU?
Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling.
nam nam
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden4672 Posts
March 01 2012 14:44 GMT
#570
I can understand people complaining about prices on one-time-playthrough-games. For a games like starcraft where you can basically play it for years I don't get how $10 more or less would make any difference in the value.
Stropheum
Profile Joined January 2010
United States1124 Posts
March 01 2012 14:47 GMT
#571
On October 25 2011 07:38 Spicy_Curry wrote:
Wow 60 dollars for an expansion pack? Im going to have to spend 120 bucks now gg.

40 dollars maximum is what the page says
Stropheum
Profile Joined January 2010
United States1124 Posts
March 01 2012 14:48 GMT
#572
On March 01 2012 22:30 david0925 wrote:
lol, people bitch about paying 40 bucks for an expansion but fork over 15 dollars a month for WoW and 25 bucks for each pet/mount

As long as the campaign and free multiplayer is worth 40 bucks to you, buy it. Otherwise, don't


Don't forget also paying for each expansion as a 40 dollar game. So far that's almost 200 dollars before you even start paying to play
Stiluz
Profile Joined October 2010
Norway688 Posts
March 01 2012 14:52 GMT
#573
Funny that people are bitching about the price. A new awesome campaign and potentially hundreds of hours of entertainment. I'll be waiting for the collectors edition anyway.
Talin
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Montenegro10532 Posts
March 01 2012 14:53 GMT
#574
Eh, that's quite an ambitious price, if it remains that. Good luck Blizzard.
pampelmus
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
Switzerland215 Posts
March 01 2012 14:54 GMT
#575
40$ is perfectly fine.
Can I order to Switzerland through any referral for TL? I suppose not.
Candadar
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
2049 Posts
March 01 2012 14:55 GMT
#576
On March 01 2012 23:52 Stiluz wrote:
Funny that people are bitching about the price. A new awesome campaign and potentially hundreds of hours of entertainment. I'll be waiting for the collectors edition anyway.


That's not the point. Unless they do a really good package deal, this is going to be really hard for newer players to get into. $59.99 for SC2, and $39.99 for this expansion. That's $100 you have to shell out to start playing, assuming the price stays the same. When the last expansion comes out, that number only increases.

I'll definitely be buying this either way, but still.
Zzoram
Profile Joined February 2008
Canada7115 Posts
March 01 2012 14:55 GMT
#577
Could TL get an Amazon.ca referral link too so us Canadians can support TL?
Paperplane
Profile Joined March 2011
Netherlands1823 Posts
March 01 2012 14:59 GMT
#578
On March 01 2012 23:47 Stropheum wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 25 2011 07:38 Spicy_Curry wrote:
Wow 60 dollars for an expansion pack? Im going to have to spend 120 bucks now gg.

40 dollars maximum is what the page says


Look at the date of the post you quoted ; )
Talin
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Montenegro10532 Posts
March 01 2012 15:02 GMT
#579
On March 01 2012 22:30 david0925 wrote:
lol, people bitch about paying 40 bucks for an expansion but fork over 15 dollars a month for WoW and 25 bucks for each pet/mount


Yeah, the part you're missing is that people actually get addicted to WoW, because the game mechanics actively encourage and reinforce that addiction, which is why people will pay anything to continue playing and get new stuff for a long time.

Game mechanics of a competitive RTS discourage most people from playing it in the first place. Most people can't even get into the multiplayer, those that do get frustrated by it on a daily basis, many get ladder anxiety and actively avoid playing the game.
Assirra
Profile Joined August 2010
Belgium4169 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-01 15:14:24
March 01 2012 15:10 GMT
#580
On March 01 2012 22:30 david0925 wrote:
lol, people bitch about paying 40 bucks for an expansion but fork over 15 dollars a month for WoW and 25 bucks for each pet/mount

As long as the campaign and free multiplayer is worth 40 bucks to you, buy it. Otherwise, don't


Sure if you wanna do silly comparisons, might wanna check how much content you get for it.
An MMO hass nearly has much content in a couple patches then some whole games...
On March 02 2012 00:02 Talin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2012 22:30 david0925 wrote:
lol, people bitch about paying 40 bucks for an expansion but fork over 15 dollars a month for WoW and 25 bucks for each pet/mount


Yeah, the part you're missing is that people actually get addicted to WoW, because the game mechanics actively encourage and reinforce that addiction, which is why people will pay anything to continue playing and get new stuff for a long time.

Game mechanics of a competitive RTS discourage most people from playing it in the first place. Most people can't even get into the multiplayer, those that do get frustrated by it on a daily basis, many get ladder anxiety and actively avoid playing the game.

You act like every wow player is addicted to it. Maybe just maybe they think the content is worth the money.
I played wow for 4years and amusingly enough it SAVED me money since that was the only thing i played for a while.
Was i addicted? No, i could stop when required. Did i played it a lot? Hell yea.
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