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USA Value 4.99. Where is the free shipping? Is it applied after checkout because I get the full shipping and tax value after coupon code. giving me a whopping $10 off

Originally Posted by friedram Holy crap $100 - dear god. I'm so glad that I will, along with everyone else, continue to support the company that fired the devs of Infinity Ward and has an ass hat of a CEO

Ill say it as I always tell people. Activision barely gets any monetary gain for this game. Blizzard's merger contract gives them full creative rights and barely any money made by sales of Blizzard games goes to Activision. Blizzard is protected from Kotick

i see you all have learned your lesson from the COD Modern warfare 2 debacle. If people don't blink at paying this much now, what is to keep publishers from continuing to gouge everybody. Granted it is a Blizzard game but is is ONE CAMPAIGN and all the extras ( with the exception of the flash drive) can be easily obtained by other means such as youtube or similar. Also, Blizzard is SO ESTABLISHED now compared to ten years ago. There will be a glut on the market and these will be marked down pretty quickly. Remember the HALO Special edition with the helmet. Everyone thought that was special too, well, you can find that for about 20 bucks if you look because the stores want to clear the retail space. You also see this with call of Duty MW 2. You can find the 360 version for under 40 bucks now.

Originally Posted by ekwalizer i see you all have learned your lesson from the COD Modern warfare 2 debacle. If people don't blink at paying this much now, what is to keep publishers from continuing to gouge everybody. Granted it is a Blizzard game but is is ONE CAMPAIGN and all the extras ( with the exception of the flash drive) can be easily obtained by other means such as youtube or similar. Also, Blizzard is SO ESTABLISHED now compared to ten years ago. There will be a glut on the market and these will be marked down pretty quickly. Remember the HALO Special edition with the helmet. Everyone thought that was special too, well, you can find that for about 20 bucks if you look because the stores want to clear the retail space. You also see this with call of Duty MW 2. You can find the 360 version for under 40 bucks now.

Remember the WOW CE's from the last 5 years? They go for more than 20 bucks. That's a much more applicable comparison.

Originally Posted by friedram Holy crap $100 - dear god. I'm so glad that I will, along with everyone else, continue to support the company that fired the devs of Infinity Ward and has an ass hat of a CEO

True, it's a hard pill to swallow buying a great game by a great developer published by a greedy corporate machine. I look at it more like my money supports the developer and at least keeps them making great games until Activision gets butt-hurt about something.

If EA bought Valve I'd still buy Valve games.

Originally Posted by RuzzT True, it's a hard pill to swallow buying a great game by a great developer published by a greedy corporate machine. I look at it more like my money supports the developer and at least keeps them making great games until Activision gets butt-hurt about something. If EA bought Valve I'd still buy Valve games.

Thats the way I feel but Blizzard gets pretty much every penny, leaving Activision with nothing.

On another note, ent20 also works on any other game. Just ordered 6 upcoming games for 20% less each.

Originally Posted by friedram Holy crap $100 - dear god. I'm so glad that I will, along with everyone else, continue to support the company that fired the devs of Infinity Ward and has an ass hat of a CEO

Mike Morhaime didn't fire the Infinity Ward guys.....

Since no one was able to answer my question:

To be clear: their site says I won't be billed until the game is processed for shipping.

What about the .99 filler game I added? That's available now, so it'll ship now. Will they charge me the full amount or just the .99+tax for the filler game?

Originally Posted by Timett Tax and the "handling fee" bumped my order up to about 90 bucks. If I'd get the game on release I'd probably pay it but I'm sure with this deal I wont get it until a week after if I'm lucky.

My total price was $87.34

Much better than paying $99.99 + tax and shipping. I've been a cheapskate lately and have only been going for the cheapest shipping on everything I buy.

It'll be pretty agonizing having to wait while my friends are already playing their copies, but I'd rather save money than play early.

Placed my order here in Georgia at 11 am and never got a S&H charge. Total was 82 and change. Which was good to begin with but even better knowing I get a rare copy of E-Jay Club World for a $1.

where can i get a Starcraft II beta code??

tax + "handling" kills it

f you gamestop

i still ordered it /sigh

hoping i can sell the "extras"

Originally Posted by _Sin_ tax + "handling" kills it f you gamestop i still ordered it /sigh hoping i can sell the "extras"

You'll most def'ly be able to sell the WoW pet, people go crazy over that crap

I'm debating whether or not to order this if it doesn't even have a fixed release date. That, and my laptop isn't great.

Originally Posted by apathylad I'm debating whether or not to order this if it doesn't even have a fixed release date. That, and my laptop isn't great.

Just order it as they may remove the listing later. If you don't want it, cancel it before it ships.

Here is what i'm wondering, I couldnt find it in any other thread before I preorder this. I heard that this isn't exactly the full version. You are only getting 1/3 of the game, the terran faction of the game. For another 60 -$100 for the zerg and protoss factions. I haven't been able to confirm this yet. If this is true then I will be cancelling my reg edition preoder and not going to be buying it or diablo 3. Any else heard this ?

Originally Posted by squishface Here is what i'm wondering, I couldnt find it in any other thread before I preorder this. I heard that this isn't exactly the full version. You are only getting 1/3 of the game, the terran faction of the game. For another 60 -$100 for the zerg and protoss factions. I haven't been able to confirm this yet. If this is true then I will be cancelling my reg edition preoder and not going to be buying it or diablo 3. Any else heard this ?

Yes, this is true. I think the campaigns are going to be longer though. You will also have access to all 3 races in multiplayer.

$87.54 was my total $10 for "handling" and $6 for tax was crap but i was going to get this anyways might as well get a deal on it.also is there a way to tell them not to ship the $0.99 game until starcraft 2 ships. i know you can do this on amazon.Also yes Squishface that is true.

Originally Posted by squishface Here is what i'm wondering, I couldnt find it in any other thread before I preorder this. I heard that this isn't exactly the full version. You are only getting 1/3 of the game, the terran faction of the game. For another 60 -$100 for the zerg and protoss factions. I haven't been able to confirm this yet. If this is true then I will be cancelling my reg edition preoder and not going to be buying it or diablo 3. Any else heard this ?

This is a gross exaggeration. You are getting the full game, it's not 1/3 of a game. They split the three factions into this game + 2 *expansions* because they wanted to tell much larger stories and didn't want to cut a bunch of missions to fit it all in one game. So this game only has the Terran campaign, but it's 29 missions long (longer than all three original StarCraft campaigns combined). It's still a full story, but more like a trilogy now. It still has all three races in multiplayer.

The other two games will be expansions and priced like expansions.

Originally Posted by Swift900 Blizzard games, like first party Nintendo titles, usually hold their value.

adding to this...starcraft 2 collectors edition comes with a WoW in game pet- these pets fetch a lot of money on ebay, this should definitely hold its value.

is the wow pet a code or will it be tied to you account like how the bonus items for aion were.