SC2 Priced: $60 for standard edition, $100 for collector's

[Barfo]

The $60 version includes Protoss DRM, the $100 version includes Zerg DRM. :twisted:

I won't be getting it at those price points, unless it has no DRM, and has a very good SP story line, with over 60 hours of play
SupCom2 was such a disappointment.

What's Zerg DRM? a cocoon inside your computer case explodes into a pile of goo if you pirate the game?

 

[tydas]

In for one collectors edition..sounds awesome..and stop bitching cuz your too poor to buy the game...get a real job

 

[smackababy]

What's Zerg DRM? a cocoon inside your computer case explodes into a pile of goo if you pirate the game?

Zerg DRM installs light copies of the game every couple seconds until you whole HDD is wiped out if you pirate the game.

 

[Raduque]

I'll buy it eventually, but only when I can get all 3 parts for between $60-80.

 

[borisvodofsky]

60 bucks for a kick ass game is perfectly reasonable. And despite the bitching, millions of people will buy it.
Theres a concept called "supply and demand" which some folks are not familiar with.
This game took years to make, and they used an assload of highly talented people to do it. They got paid, trust me. No one worked on this project for free..

In fact for as much play time as most of you will put into it, 60 dollars is practically a bargain.

Have you played it yet? Even the cracked demo?

I played the official from the first day. AND LET ME TELL YOU, those highly talented people were either all working on WOW,, or got dumbed down in the process.

This game is shat , i'm gonna go cry again :'(

 

[Ichigo]

No, the extra $10 is for every PC game in the future. This isn't a one-off. By Christmas season every AAA PC release will be $60, whether huge and great or utter crap.

And you Blizzard fanboys will be just as much to blame as the IW fans.

At what point did being a fan of a company that has released only absolute gems of games for over a decade become a bad thing? At what point did paying for games that are worth playing become a bad thing?

This is insanity.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Have you played it yet? Even the cracked demo?

I played the official from the first day. AND LET ME TELL YOU, those highly talented people were either all working on WOW,, or got dumbed down in the process.

This game is shat , i'm gonna go cry again :'(

i don't know what game you're playing, i think it's fun as hell.

i do think some units should be soft counters instead of hard counters, but the pros are better at figuring that type of thing out than i ever will be.

 

[zerocool84]

I practically never buy those "special collector's editions" of games cus none of them offer anything worth it but I'm definitely going to with this game. It's Starcraft dammit!!!

Also if you want to wait until it's cheap then you're going to wait a REALLY long time. Blizzard games almost never drop in price. Hell the Warcraft 3 Battle Chest is still $40. They never drop in price cus the games are that good.

 

[Barfo]

I bet half the missions will be filler and fluff.

Either you have insider information or you're just spewing bullshit, I wonder which one is it

 

[Arkaign]

Has anyone here considered inflation? $60 in 2010 is not what it was in 2000, and waaay off from what it was in 1990. For a game that has taken years to develop, and a global following eagerly awaiting it, I think it's a fair price for the premiere. I won't buy it simply because I don't play RTS games, they bore the piss out of me. Red Alert 1 was the last one I spent any time with, and that's only because we had drunken lan parties and shared general hilarity at incinerating huge groups of infantry with nuclear weapons. Still though, if you think this game is up your alley, and you spend a decent amount of time in a previous installment, why is $60 a crazy idea? Games are expensive to develop, and $60 in 2010 money is probably about like $50 in Y2K cash.

EDIT : Aha, check this out :

http://www.westegg.com/inflation/

 

[Redshirt 24]

Just call me Switzerland, I guess...

1. I have absolutely no doubt that the $60/$100 price tags are from the Activision side of the fence. (Insert animated .gif here of Bobby Kotick slavering over a calculator with a bottle of lotion nearby.) With DNF dead (for now, at least, and hush--it's just a frame of reference) SCII is the reigning Queen Mother of all highly-anticipated PC games. And Blizzard's going to make absolutely ridiculous amounts of money off this no matter what the price tag is, so in that respect they probably don't give a damn, but that arbitrary extra $10 just smacks of "because we can"--and that's definitely Activision's current agenda.

And yes, there's no doubt that someone's going to try to follow in AB's footsteps with that sort of pricing--EA, I imagine--and probably fail, for one reason or another.

2. And speaking for myself as someone who still remembers how much certain SNES games were back in the day and thus has a smidgen of perspective left: $10, at least in this specific case, is quibble-worthy--but not the end of the universe. (That said: even I can't quite justify $100 for the CE--though like just about every other CE Blizzard has made, it's going to get ridiculously overpriced in the aftermarket for about a year after release.)

 

[SunSamurai]

lmao at blizzard fanboys. everyone bitched about MW2 being $60 but its ok for this game.

Apples and oranges!

Get yer apples and oranges here!

 

[pontifex]

Apples and oranges!

Get yer apples and oranges here!

how?

 

[HybridSquirrel]

im going to be ponying up for the 100 dollar version

 

[Fenixgoon]

how?

MW2 was basically multiplayer only with a 6hr SP campaign. SC2 has a full length SP campaign?

 

[Hacp]

I'm not going to be buying. I'll wait until the two expansion packs(also 60 dollars) come out then buy the 50 dollar battle chest.

 

[pontifex]

MW2 was basically multiplayer only with a 6hr SP campaign. SC2 has a full length SP campaign?

so you're syaing that the mw2 sp campaign was incomplete, that it did not complete the whole story?

just because it took you 6 hours to complete doesn't mean it wasn't a full length campaign.


besides, if anything is apples to oranges its your comments here. these are entirely 2 different styles of game. FPS games generally do have shorter SP. hve you played SC2 already to know that it's SP campaign is really long? Also don't most RTS games have to tell the story from at least 2 sides, if not more, so that makes it longer in that aspect and the missions are just reversed. instead of attacking you are defending and vice versa.

The point is that PC games aren't supposed to be $60, at least that was the point when MW2 was announced at $60. But here comes SC2 at $60 and all of a sudden it's ok that PC games be priced at $60.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Probably worth far more than that. I will wait and get all three in a battle-chest for $30.

Yes, I am patient, did that with the last StarCraft. I just hung out and played spawned multi-player games with friends until it did.

 

[NoSoup4You]

I'm over RTS games and the genre as a whole.

 

[Magusigne]

In for 1 CE lol.

 

[Barfo]

I wonder if I'll be able to sell the WoW pet since I have no use for it. Would be nice to get some cash for it.

 

[gorcorps]

Also if you want to wait until it's cheap then you're going to wait a REALLY long time. Blizzard games almost never drop in price. Hell the Warcraft 3 Battle Chest is still $40. They never drop in price cus the sequels take forever to come out.

fixed

 

[JoshGuru7]

The point is that PC games aren't supposed to be $60

What are they "supposed" to be priced at, and who should be in charge of setting the prices in your perfect world?

 

[pontifex]

What are they "supposed" to be priced at, and who should be in charge of setting the prices in your perfect world?

they've been set at $50 forever and all these companies have been doing just fine.

 

[KeypoX]

I dunno, i didn't like the beta that much. I think I liked starcraft so much in high school because it was new and everyone was playing it. SC2 is so gonna be full of numbnut wow 'gamers' i think im just to old for this stuff anymore