WoW In-Game Pet in SC2 Collector Edition

[willjones410]

Thors are freaking awesome! If they can be a mini-pet in game then it would fit about perfectly with my goblin.

"What is best in life? To crush the Alliance, see them driven before you, and to hear the swooning of the draenei and belf women at your feet for being that damn awesome!"

8)

[Andymion]

I will not pay 60$ for any game sorry bliz. Considering how many years I've waited for SC2, waiting a few months till theprice drops wont kill me. Second, why do they think that the stuff in the CE is worth an extra 40$? Its not. I mean collectors editions are ment for the hardcore fans but still, this is a rip off.

I also noticed that D3 is being advertised at 60$.

[Marvdatboi]

Yes, you are correct, nobody is forced to buy the CE edition. However, I'm pretty sure that there will be, lets say many players who collect pets and/or achievements in WoW, and there will be people who will buy it not because of SC2, but just to get that robot. Just like there is people paying 300$(or how much is it?) for Spectral Tiger and other TCG rewards.

And what they do with their money is their business.

[BLSTMASTER]

You dont HAVE to buy it.
If you're not planning on playing wow after sc2 launches but still want the CE, you can sell the pet online(or it sounds like you can I'm not really sure)
the way i look at it its an extra 40 for an artwork book,2gb usb flash drive,behind the scene dvd, ost cd, a comic book and a dlc. the pet is just something that tags along.
40 for all those dont seem like much tbh (although i dont how much those individual items would cost if sold seperately)
I'd say it's a pretty cool deal for a COLLECTOR.

EDIT: looking at the warrior Q/A seems like ret pally's divine storm will prolly be changed too?

[Necrotica]

Yes, you are correct, nobody is forced to buy the CE edition. However, I'm pretty sure that there will be, lets say many players who collect pets and/or achievements in WoW, and there will be people who will buy it not because of SC2, but just to get that robot. Just like there is people paying 300$(or how much is it?) for Spectral Tiger and other TCG rewards.

Then turn around and sell the game unused with everything else in it to someone who doesn't play WOW but wants the game and the rest of the shit for $75 or something.

I swear people whine to whine.

[Marvdatboi]

I will not pay 60$ for any game sorry bliz. Considering how many years I've waited for SC2, waiting a few months till theprice drops wont kill me. Second, why do they think that the stuff in the CE is worth an extra 40$? Its not. I mean collectors editions are ment for the hardcore fans but still, this is a rip off.

I also noticed that D3 is being advertised at 60$.

Then thats your choice, 100 bucks isn't bad if you save your pennies like a good lil boy.

[FuriousFox]

Why is a PC game priced so damned high? Not the CE, but the regular one. It should be $49.99, not $59.99. Only Xbox360 and PS3 games are priced that high, PC games are normally $10-$20 cheaper.

It's a new trend that's developing. As far as I know, this will be the 3rd recent PC game with a $60 price tag (the other two being Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed 2). I don't think the other two games sold too well on the PC, but then again, they were mainly just console ports. Since Starcraft is an very popular PC game series, it stands a better chance of establishing a foothold for higher priced games on the PC.

Hopefully it doesn't catch on, but I fear it will.

[Spleenzorio]

This is probably an obvious question, but if you buy the CE for this first "chapter" of SC2 will there be CE versions of the Zerg and Protoss campaigns also or is this it?

[Necrotica]

It's a new trend that's developing. As far as I know, this will be the 3rd recent PC game with a $60 price tag (the other two being Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed 2). I don't think the other two games sold too well on the PC, but then again, they were mainly just console ports. Since Starcraft is an very popular PC game series, it stands a better chance of establishing a foothold for higher priced games on the PC.

Hopefully it doesn't catch on, but I fear it will.

Not sure if it's trend so much as inflation and development cost rising. Although personally I felt the $50 point was nice and comfortable...

But honestly, the games you mentioned (and Starcraft 2) are high profile AAA games with a lot of expectations around them and they know they'll sell X copies regardless of it being $10 more or not.

Personally, I think companies shouldn't be so rigid on the pricing, certain games should release for $40 or less. I'd be more inclined to buy games I didn't really care enough about if they was $25-35 as opposed to $60 right off the bat.

[Asjes]

muahahahaha, AH HULL BE BAK!

I'm totally getting that

[Necrotica]

This is probably an obvious question, but if you buy the CE for this first "chapter" of SC2 will there be CE versions of the Zerg and Protoss campaigns also or is this it?

Don't think even Blizzard knows the answer to that yet.

With the way it's been lately with Blizzard being a superstar in the development world, I suspect they'll do CE's for them as well to get $20 more out of it or more maybe (they might add more WoW pets each time since clearly they like to troll for kids)

[conscript]

$100 is pretty crappy but I think I can justify paying an extra $40 for a game I was already going to buy for the sweet box it will come in along with the art book (not to mention the WoW pet obviously). I love all the junk that came with the last collectors edition for WoW so I imagine this stuff is going to be pretty cool as well.

My only concern with the price is how much are the "expansion" packs going to cost for SC2? I really hope they don't retail for the full $60 as well, but I expect them to be in the $20-30 range considering they are basically only single-player games. Then again, I have seen a lot of other single player games, with less depth and playtime than the Toss and Zerg campaigns will have, retail for $60 on Xbox.

[Deleted]

You didn't get what I was trying to say... English is not my native language so sometimes I can't express exactly the way I want.

I don't care if it costs $40 or 50 cents more than the normal edition of the game. Its not the money that bothers me, its the fact that the pet, at least in my opinion, is out of place in the SC2 CE. It feels like they were out of ideas what else to put in it and some guy came with the idea to spend several hours on making the universal "reward"- WoW ingame pet, so the people won't complain about it costing almost twice the original game and having not enough extras for those money.

[conscript]

This is probably an obvious question, but if you buy the CE for this first "chapter" of SC2 will there be CE versions of the Zerg and Protoss campaigns also or is this it?

I suspect that will be it as far as CE versions go. At least I hope that is it as I really don't want to shell out $40 for each one of those CEs as well. Although if they come with an art book and a WoW pet I probably will lol.

[Harthmut]

So SC2 will cost additional money for online play or what?

[Necrotica]

You didn't get what I was trying to say... English is not my native language so sometimes I can't express exactly the way I want.

I don't care if it costs $40 or 50 cents more than the normal edition of the game. Its not the money that bothers me, its the fact that the pet, at least in my opinion, is out of place in the SC2 CE. It feels like they were out of ideas what else to put in it and some guy came with the idea to spend several hours on making the universal "reward"- WoW ingame pet, so the people won't complain about it costing almost twice the original game and having not enough extras for those money.

Fact is a lot of Starcraft fans do play WoW, also another fact is yes, Blizzard is trying to get WoW players that never experienced the Starcraft universe a push towards getting into it with a pet with it.

Bottom line though is its a bonus for those that want it. If you just want the pet, sell the game without it to someone that doesn't play WoW for farks sake!

[Slasha]

I´ll buy the Collectors Edition for sure, but not sure whether to use the pet or sell it... probably depends if Cataclysm will convince me. 8)

[Necrotica]

So SC2 will cost additional money for online play or what?

No, Battle.net is free

[conscript]

You didn't get what I was trying to say... English is not my native language so sometimes I can't express exactly the way I want.

I don't care if it costs $40 or 50 cents more than the normal edition of the game. Its not the money that bothers me, its the fact that the pet, at least in my opinion, is out of place in the SC2 CE. It feels like they were out of ideas what else to put in it and some guy came with the idea to spend several hours on making the universal "reward"- WoW ingame pet, so the people won't complain about it costing almost twice the original game and having not enough extras for those money.

Its called cross promotion. Why do you think the original CE pets were mini-diablo and a zergling? They are well known objects from other Blizzard properties that can reel in additional sales possibly. I'm sure the plan was to always include a Wow pet with the SC2 CE just like there will be one with the Diablo 3 CE. People who exclusively play SC2 will buy the game for the game and eBay the pet for people who exclusively play Wow to buy. For the rest of us who play both this is a welcome gift that is liekly coming at no extra cost than the CE already would have.

[Cerabret100]

Why is a PC game priced so damned high? Not the CE, but the regular one. It should be $49.99, not $59.99. Only Xbox360 and PS3 games are priced that high, PC games are normally $10-$20 cheaper.

2 reasons:

1) even without licensing fees, PC game development is still getting expensive just like console games, throw in fear of piracy, and it's possible they've just reached the point where they can't afford the hold pricing standard.

2) From a (very simple) business perspective, there's no reason NOT to charge the same as everyone else, especially if it results in greater profit, and it's not like you have any other cheaper (and legal) place to go since all other forms of gaming uses the new price point standard (well...the wii, which I personally love for Resident evil, Mario, and Zelda, but i don't think i'm in the majority here).

To be honest, i'm surprised the PC gaming crowd got away with the old $50 price point as long as it did.