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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.
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The big question for me is... Will they have a Collector's Edition with a WoW pet and SC2 Portraits.
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Jeezus, how cheap is that, will probably be 30€in Europe then. Unless the use the business model of Steam. Where 5$=5€.
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On March 01 2012 11:38 RTSDealer wrote: Wouldn't recommend pre-ordering a Blizzard game since it takes so long.
Save that money and invest it on something else and when Blizzard makes an official announcement about the final release date, that's the time to pre-order.
I preordered Duke Nukem forever. The store closed down
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i guess some people dont know how much work it takes to make computergames.
40dollar (around 30-35euro for me) is totaly fine for an expansion. i would much more lol about events taking 20dollar for 1 weekend of sc2 (mlg), thats were u can complain about, but still... people should learn to spend their money for quality
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lol, people bitch about paying 40 bucks for an expansion but fork over 15 dollars a month for WoW and 25 bucks for each pet/mount
As long as the campaign and free multiplayer is worth 40 bucks to you, buy it. Otherwise, don't
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Some people are so spoiled it's getting ridiculous. How can anyone actually complain about 40$ ?? 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!
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$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.
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Any idea when it will be out to pre-order in EU?
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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 $10 more or less would make any difference in the value.
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On October 25 2011 07:38 Spicy_Curry wrote: Wow 60 dollars for an expansion pack? Im going to have to spend 120 bucks now gg. 40 dollars maximum is what the page says
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On March 01 2012 22:30 david0925 wrote: lol, people bitch about paying 40 bucks for an expansion but fork over 15 dollars a month for WoW and 25 bucks for each pet/mount
As long as the campaign and free multiplayer is worth 40 bucks to you, buy it. Otherwise, don't
Don't forget also paying for each expansion as a 40 dollar game. So far that's almost 200 dollars before you even start paying to play
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Funny that people are bitching about the price. A new awesome campaign and potentially hundreds of hours of entertainment. I'll be waiting for the collectors edition anyway.
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Eh, that's quite an ambitious price, if it remains that. Good luck Blizzard.
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40$ is perfectly fine. Can I order to Switzerland through any referral for TL? I suppose not.
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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.
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Could TL get an Amazon.ca referral link too so us Canadians can support TL?
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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 ; )
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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.
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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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