Make some room in your collection, as Blizzard Entertainment has revealed StarCraft II Collector's Edition, and you're going to want it.
Retailing for $99.99, the collector's edition comes packed with goodies, including:
- The Art of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, a 176-page book featuring artwork from the game
- An exclusive 2GB USB flash drive replica of Jim Raynor's dog tag, which comes preloaded with the original StarCraft and the StarCraft: Brood War expansion set
- A behind-the-scenes DVD containing over an hour of developer interviews, cinematics with director's commentary, and more
- The official StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty soundtrack CD, containing 14 epic tracks from the game along with exclusive bonus tracks
- StarCraft comic book issue #0, a prequel to the comic series
- A World of Warcraft mini Thor in-game pet that can be applied to all World of Warcraft characters on a single Battle.net account
- Exclusive Battle.net downloadable content, including special portraits for your Battle.net profile, decals to customize your units in-game, and a visually unique version of the terran Thor unit
If you're not one for all the extras, you can pick up the standard edition, which Blizzard has confirmed will retail for $59.99. Still no release date, but Blizzard says we can expect that information "in the coming weeks."
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10:14 AM on 04.08.2010 | 
It is nice they're throwing in the original SC and expansion at least.
Wishing I hadn't bought the Starcraft battle chest two days ago.
Seems even Blizzard cannot escape the wrath of Activision...
That'll be what, £40 in England? Sounds about right.
And 60 bucks? For PC games?? What??? The???? Fuck?????
You are all, collectively, insane.
As for the CE, that looks sexy... $40 more sexy? Not sure. Gimmie a few days to think!
And really, people are turning their backs for $10? You're not real Blizzard fans, then, and they probably don't care if you don't buy it then. After all, they have every asian netcafe buying dozens of copies alone not to mention the home consumer...
but, yea, thanks for letting us know we can pay over $100 for a limited edition copy whenever you guys decide to actually...y'know...release the game. i guess that bit of information isn't nearly as important right now.
If you really care about the $10, just buy it on Amazon. It's $50.
Also DO WANT the collector's edition.
I remember paying $70 or $80 for Chrono Trigger for SNES back when it came out and yeah, I remember Phantasy Star 4 carrying that $90 price tag as well so I agree with you there.
The other thing too is, Wings of Liberty is only a 1/3 of the game. All you get is the Terran story and obviously the multiplayer. So it will be interesting to see how or what they do with the other 2/3 of the game and what they price that for. I'm pretty sure its the same story but from each races view.
BUT IT'S STARCRAFT 2
JESUS CHRIST PEOPLE IT'S STARCRAFT 2
PROSTRATE YOURSELVES FOR THINKING YOU'RE WORTHY TO LOOK UPON IT!!
That being said, I think that with their pricing and their decision to split the game, SC2 might be one of the most scrutinized games in history over the question of value/cost.
I haven't bought a standard packaging PC game for over $50 in a very long time. I could see if people were getting them at FYE/Mall Gamestops or such with prices being that high, but if you look at most any retailer 95% of new PC games hit under the $50 point.
I think the issue with a lot of people this generation of games is they are wary of release day bugs, 7 hour campaigns/game lengths, or release day DLC that should've been packaged with the game, etc. If this weren't the case, and games still had the same quality and reliability of older games, you might see people less hesitant or vocal about paying $60 for new releases.
I swear, sometimes this generation of gamers seem so spoiled sometimes that they think they're entitled to whatever they want with little effort.
Blizzard has always made a great, fleshed out and fun product so far...
First WoW and now this... I feel like Blizzard is really going downhill.
The original Starcraft was 30 missions, multiplayer, and a map editor. Starcraft 2 is 30 missions, multiplayer, and a map editor.
False information is false, no matter how many times you spread it.