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Littlemuff
Profile Joined August 2011
United Kingdom301 Posts
November 13 2012 13:38 GMT
#221
It would seem like a reasonable target if they didn't say they were going to completely change loads of existing units. Hmmmm, im going for July/August time.
CrtBalorda
Profile Joined December 2011
Slovenia704 Posts
November 13 2012 13:39 GMT
#222
Im not sure if people are going to swallow 40 dollars after their failiures.
Not sure if I will either.
It better be good for that.
4th August 2012...Never forget.....
Helios.Star
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States548 Posts
November 13 2012 13:39 GMT
#223
Cool, HotS is coming out on my birthday . Think ill gift myself a deluxe edition...
JtoK
Profile Joined December 2011
Germany232 Posts
November 13 2012 13:40 GMT
#224
It's about time!
mycro
Profile Joined March 2010
Sweden1579 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-13 13:42:09
November 13 2012 13:40 GMT
#225
On November 13 2012 22:25 eviltomahawk wrote:
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On November 13 2012 22:24 mycro wrote:
How is this "priced as an expansion". It's basically the same price as the original.

WoL cost $60 for me at release.
HotS will cost $40.

$40 < $60.

WoW expansions are $40. The Frozen Throne was $40 iirc.


I paid about 50-60$ (cant remember exactly) for WoL.. now according to that picture in the OP i'll have to pay 40 EUROs for the expansion which is basically the same since 40 euro is 50 dollars.

Why are they equating dollars to euro? 1 euro is worth more than 1 dollar. How is that not greedy?

Edit: not the picture in the OP, but it can be seen on page11.. someone quoted it with a 40euro pricetag in the bottom.
Sea_Food
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Finland1612 Posts
November 13 2012 13:42 GMT
#226
On November 13 2012 22:32 Fragile51 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 13 2012 22:29 Sea_Food wrote:
On November 13 2012 22:15 Vindicare605 wrote:
On November 13 2012 22:13 SeriousLus wrote:
the price is a fing joke.. especially for the deluxe edition
EU will get it for 45€ at best... typical Blizzard cash cowing


You're paying as much for a Blizzard expansion in 2012 as you would have in 2003 and that's with inflation included.

It's a good buy. There's absolutely zero reason to start the "cash cowing" hate train other than just blind trolling.


Exept that HotS adds one third of the content to the game that Frozen Throne added, and one tenth compared to WoW expansions.


You think that overhauling the entire UI and improving the physics and graphics engine doesn't count as added content? Also comparing it to a WoW expansion is dumb in the first place because WoW has a monthly payment system. When you look at what someone has paid to play WoW from release till now with buying every single expansion and not missing a single monthly payment i'd say you could buy a pretty decent car with that money.


WoW is 7 years and 11 months old. Main game + 4 expansions = 5*30$ = 150$

Each expansion + main game gives 1 month of free game time. So you would have had to pay for 7,5 years.

7,5*120$=900$

150$+900$=1050$

pretty decent car


get out of here.

And no i dont think that overhauling the entire UI to the point where i still cant create a room for a custom game is not worth anything.
PiQLiQ
Profile Joined January 2011
Sweden702 Posts
November 13 2012 13:42 GMT
#227
Ohh that long? March :O
http://twitter.com/PiQLiQ
Darc1n
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Hungary10 Posts
November 13 2012 13:43 GMT
#228
I have a gift for you guys:

[image loading]

SOURCE:

http://starcraft2.hu/2012/11/13/heart-of-the-swarm-collectors-edition-doboz-kep/
Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States16071 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-13 13:48:16
November 13 2012 13:43 GMT
#229
On November 13 2012 22:39 CrtBalorda wrote:
Im not sure if people are going to swallow 40 dollars after their failiures.
Not sure if I will either.
It better be good for that.


People will.

No amount of whining about past failures or how much people won't buy the game can possibly ever match the level of complaining that always comes with a new WoW expansion and that game has been at around 10 million subscribers for 8 years now.

People on the internet whine about everything. Blizzard makes great games and continues to. You might try and threaten that you're going somewhere but you'll quickly realize that every other company out there is worse off and you'll come right back.

Starcraft is the only RTS on the market.
aka: KTVindicare the Geeky Bartender
eviltomahawk
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States11135 Posts
November 13 2012 13:45 GMT
#230
On November 13 2012 22:37 Vindicare605 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 13 2012 22:35 eviltomahawk wrote:
On November 13 2012 22:33 Vindicare605 wrote:
On November 13 2012 22:29 Sea_Food wrote:
On November 13 2012 22:15 Vindicare605 wrote:
On November 13 2012 22:13 SeriousLus wrote:
the price is a fing joke.. especially for the deluxe edition
EU will get it for 45€ at best... typical Blizzard cash cowing


You're paying as much for a Blizzard expansion in 2012 as you would have in 2003 and that's with inflation included.

It's a good buy. There's absolutely zero reason to start the "cash cowing" hate train other than just blind trolling.


Exept that HotS adds one third of the content to the game that Frozen Throne added, and one tenth compared to WoW expansions.


WoW's content is also priced with its subscription cost (15 dollars per month) included in case you've forgotten.The box prices are exactly the same though.

As per Warcraft 3's content, that's yet to be seen. Warcraft 3 TFT added neutral heroes and 3 new campaigns as well as a couple new units per race. A lot of the content that exists now was patched after the expansion first dropped.

HOTS is adding new units per race and a new campaign that will offer as many playtime hours as TFT's campaign if it's anything like WoL's. which we have no reason to believe it won't be.

When Legacy of the Void is released. SC2 will have considerably more campaign playtime hours included than the Warcraft 3 campaigns did.

There's also Blizzard All-Stars to consider.

Although Blizzard All-Stars will come bundled with the free Starter Edition of SC2 iirc.


Source?

As far as I know there's been no officially released statement on how Blizzard All-Stars will be implemented other than it won't be released until HoTS has been.

I dug up this old PC Gamer article that claims that it will be free with the Starter Edition.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/22/blizzard-dota-detailed-mounts-added-towers-weakened-last-hits-revamped/
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Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States16071 Posts
November 13 2012 13:47 GMT
#231
On November 13 2012 22:45 eviltomahawk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 13 2012 22:37 Vindicare605 wrote:
On November 13 2012 22:35 eviltomahawk wrote:
On November 13 2012 22:33 Vindicare605 wrote:
On November 13 2012 22:29 Sea_Food wrote:
On November 13 2012 22:15 Vindicare605 wrote:
On November 13 2012 22:13 SeriousLus wrote:
the price is a fing joke.. especially for the deluxe edition
EU will get it for 45€ at best... typical Blizzard cash cowing


You're paying as much for a Blizzard expansion in 2012 as you would have in 2003 and that's with inflation included.

It's a good buy. There's absolutely zero reason to start the "cash cowing" hate train other than just blind trolling.


Exept that HotS adds one third of the content to the game that Frozen Throne added, and one tenth compared to WoW expansions.


WoW's content is also priced with its subscription cost (15 dollars per month) included in case you've forgotten.The box prices are exactly the same though.

As per Warcraft 3's content, that's yet to be seen. Warcraft 3 TFT added neutral heroes and 3 new campaigns as well as a couple new units per race. A lot of the content that exists now was patched after the expansion first dropped.

HOTS is adding new units per race and a new campaign that will offer as many playtime hours as TFT's campaign if it's anything like WoL's. which we have no reason to believe it won't be.

When Legacy of the Void is released. SC2 will have considerably more campaign playtime hours included than the Warcraft 3 campaigns did.

There's also Blizzard All-Stars to consider.

Although Blizzard All-Stars will come bundled with the free Starter Edition of SC2 iirc.


Source?

As far as I know there's been no officially released statement on how Blizzard All-Stars will be implemented other than it won't be released until HoTS has been.

I dug up this old PC Gamer article that claims that it will be free with the Starter Edition.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/22/blizzard-dota-detailed-mounts-added-towers-weakened-last-hits-revamped/


I'm nervous because of how dated that article is and because I've heard no follow up confirmation of that at Blizzcons or elsewhere.

I hope it's true though.
aka: KTVindicare the Geeky Bartender
eviltomahawk
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States11135 Posts
November 13 2012 13:48 GMT
#232
On November 13 2012 22:40 mycro wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 13 2012 22:25 eviltomahawk wrote:
On November 13 2012 22:24 mycro wrote:
How is this "priced as an expansion". It's basically the same price as the original.

WoL cost $60 for me at release.
HotS will cost $40.

$40 < $60.

WoW expansions are $40. The Frozen Throne was $40 iirc.


I paid about 50-60$ (cant remember exactly) for WoL.. now according to that picture in the OP i'll have to pay 40 EUROs for the expansion which is basically the same since 40 euro is 50 dollars.

Why are they equating dollars to euro? 1 euro is worth more than 1 dollar. How is that not greedy?

Edit: not the picture in the OP, but it can be seen on page11.. someone quoted it with a 40euro pricetag in the bottom.

Greedy? Perhaps.

But it's not limited to just Blizzard. Some other online stores also do a 1 euro to 1 dollar conversion, like Steam iirc. Those that don't are the exception rather than the rule.
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Lukeeze[zR]
Profile Joined February 2006
Switzerland6838 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-13 14:14:31
November 13 2012 13:48 GMT
#233
40$ is a good price for a game you'll spend plenty of time on. 2 weeks ago I bought Dishonored (xbox360) for 89 frs (~95$), I finished the game in 8-10 hours, now that's what I call a scam.
Terran & Potato Salad.
Fragile51
Profile Joined October 2011
Netherlands15767 Posts
November 13 2012 13:48 GMT
#234
On November 13 2012 22:42 Sea_Food wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 13 2012 22:32 Fragile51 wrote:
On November 13 2012 22:29 Sea_Food wrote:
On November 13 2012 22:15 Vindicare605 wrote:
On November 13 2012 22:13 SeriousLus wrote:
the price is a fing joke.. especially for the deluxe edition
EU will get it for 45€ at best... typical Blizzard cash cowing


You're paying as much for a Blizzard expansion in 2012 as you would have in 2003 and that's with inflation included.

It's a good buy. There's absolutely zero reason to start the "cash cowing" hate train other than just blind trolling.


Exept that HotS adds one third of the content to the game that Frozen Throne added, and one tenth compared to WoW expansions.


You think that overhauling the entire UI and improving the physics and graphics engine doesn't count as added content? Also comparing it to a WoW expansion is dumb in the first place because WoW has a monthly payment system. When you look at what someone has paid to play WoW from release till now with buying every single expansion and not missing a single monthly payment i'd say you could buy a pretty decent car with that money.


WoW is 7 years and 11 months old. Main game + 4 expansions = 5*30$ = 150$

Each expansion + main game gives 1 month of free game time. So you would have had to pay for 7,5 years.

7,5*120$=900$

150$+900$=1050$

Show nested quote +
pretty decent car


get out of here.

And no i dont think that overhauling the entire UI to the point where i still cant create a room for a custom game is not worth anything.


Shit, you could buy a pretty good second hand volvo for that kinda money around here. Don't you think that 1050 dollars is a massive amount of money on a single game? And people here are bitching over spending 40 on top of 60? If you don't think it's worth it that's your call to make but comparing a WoW expansion to a sc2 expansion price wise is just dumb.
reapsen
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany559 Posts
November 13 2012 13:48 GMT
#235
Thats exactly 2 days before my birthday, EXCELLENT present
kollin
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom8380 Posts
November 13 2012 13:49 GMT
#236
Well I guess I didn't get in the beta at all -.-
Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States16071 Posts
November 13 2012 13:49 GMT
#237
On November 13 2012 22:48 Lukeeze[zR] wrote:
40$ is a good price for a game you'll spend plenty of time on. 2 weeks ago I bought Dishonored (xbox360) for 89 frs (~80$), I finished the game in 8-10 hours, now that's what I call a scam.


That sucks and pretty much sums up why I don't play consoles anymore.
aka: KTVindicare the Geeky Bartender
FLeK0
Profile Joined April 2010
86 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-13 13:50:25
November 13 2012 13:50 GMT
#238
Recent talk at their investor events lead me to believe that BAll-stars is now a separate F2P game, and it has nothing to do with SC2.
schwarzer
Profile Joined October 2012
Argentina25 Posts
November 13 2012 13:50 GMT
#239
Wow... I didn't expect a release date yet, considering HotS multiplayer has to be completely balanced (it's recently starting to have a metagame...)

I really hope Blizzard don't release the game if it isn't ready, like they did with Diablo III.

And related to the price, there is two points of view:

1. $40 for just a campaign I'm not totally interested, and a bunch of new units is really expensive.

2. But considering how many hours I put in WoL (I had never invested so many time in a game) and all the fun I got in this 2 years, $40 is a really low price.
baldgye
Profile Joined April 2011
United Kingdom1092 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-13 13:52:52
November 13 2012 13:52 GMT
#240
Gona wait on retail ce's to pop up before I bother ... Though the game balance is so fucked right now, shocked they put a date in it
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