Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that its highly anticipated real-time strategy game, StarCraft® II: Wings of Liberty™, will be available both in a standard edition and in a limited-release Collector's Edition packed with exclusive bonus materials. Players who purchase either edition will be able to play online for no additional fee through the new version of Battle.net®, the premier online gaming destination for Blizzard Entertainment gamers.

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will be available on DVD-ROM for Windows® XP/Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 and Macintosh®. The standard edition will sell for a suggested retail price of $59.99 and will also be available shortly after release as a download through the online Blizzard Store. The special Collector's Edition package, which is priced at $99.99 and will only be available at retail stores, will include the following bonus items in addition to the game disc:

• 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
  

More info can be found on http://us.starcraft2.com/features/collector/

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Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Apr 9 2010, 6:34 pm by DevliN.

Rather nice, but does that mean the battle.net has a fee? And also, does that mean that you can not order the collector's edition online?
EDIT: I guess I misunderstood something....

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Apr 8 2010, 11:33 pm by DeVouReR.

I don't see how you arrived at either of those two conclusions. I don't see any reason that those two questions would be answered with an affirmative.

Anyway, it's not worth it.

Definitely not worth it. I don't even play WoW.

Either way, I'm probably going to get it just for the exclusive contents.

Yea, I want the artwork-book and the soundtrack CD x)

$60 for a game? Sorry, not interested.

60$ for a game is almost the norm nowadays.

Collector's edition? Heck no. The game's enough for me.

In other words, I'm poor as heck. $100 represents over 2/3 of my total wealth at the moment...

It seems like it's more aimed at WoW players who have never played Starcraft and want to get into the universe, as you can see by what is highlighted in red.

SC2 Soundtrack...
Must... resist...

Hmm... I would, but its too expensive. And my computers cant run it
(I know that's the regular price nowadays, but I'm poor )

Release date being announced in a couple of weeks. Time for me to gear up!

Warcraft III: July 5, 2002
Warcraft III Frozen throne: July 1, 2003
Diablo II: June 29, 2000.
Starcraft II: ??(summer)/2010
Are we seeing a pattern here?

100$... 40$ xtra for an original sc and other knick-knacks, seems worth it

starcraft costs 20$ at my GameStop. I have re-purchased it many times. I am paying 80$ for starcraft 1&2 in this package,

So basically I am paying 20 dollars for all of the extra stuff.

I might get the collectors edition, depending on how much more awesome the packaging is.

I remember a while ago that they were planning on selling each race separately? Does this mean we'll have to buy two expansion packs to get the full experience along with the 60$ game?

Each game's campaign is a seperate game. They're not releasing them until a year or so after each other, they're full games and expansions like Brood War was to SC.

Just to clarify on what he said, we get ALL THREE RACES in Wings of Liberty multiplayer. The campaign is Terran-only however (with a mini-Protoss mission). Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void will just be providing new campaigns (and no doubt a bunch of other miscellaous stuff like patches or perhaps new units - though there better be a bunch of new stuff if we have to pay full price for these "Expansion Packs").

Updated with http://us.starcraft2.com/features/collector/

Collectors edition, mmm, heck yes!