Pre-Order StarCraft II, Get Beta Access

pff.....to much hype...

$59.99 I will wait til it inevitably goes on sale. $29.99 would be fine.

Or you can just go to Gamestop and drop 5 bucks for a deposit and never pick the game up.

Yeah, but will Crysis run Crysis?

and not enough grammar

don't hold your breath ~ it will probably be 30$ in 3 years from now

Im in the beta its fun

Before any1 says that $59.99 is too much for 1/3 the game...... Wings of Liberty will have around 30 missions itself, same as starcraft original. I like what blizzard is doing here. We are gonna get a massive trilogy!

The beta needs more people. Serious balancing issues right now and a lot of battlenet bugs that need working out. Pretty clever move by Gamestop. I'm sure this will attract a lot of customers and pad their quarterly numbers.

just reserved mine... am I a tool? Yes. But now I'm a happy tool soon to be enjoying the Beta

Here again, 40 KM too far north to get that benefit. Sigh. And I have to pay an extra 10$ on it too.

IMO that Starcraft 2 marine pic looks like a younger Kevin Costner?

I really hate how obvious the signs of the Activision taint are with the price point, but I'm having a difficult time resisting this beta offer.

FREE Shipping?!

Sign me up.

Beta? meh.

$59.95 for a PC game that will be released in three parts, FU Activision/Blizzard, not happening here. Maybe one day when you release a Battle-Chest I will buy it.

But two and use code 25off to get 25% off of anything over $100.

Before everyone gets all wet please read the following taken from Gamestop...

Reserve StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and receive an invitation to the StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty beta. Available online and in-store while supplies last. Once you recieve your Beta Code your order cannot be canceled.

ha ~ that's what i m going to do today ~

Dude... It's a bit more missions than the original Starcraft, but for a single race, so they can take their time with telling the story more. Also - it's not just cutscenes (which are INCREDIBLE, BTW) - it's also lots and lots of between-mission content; walking through the Hyperion, engaging in idle conversations, lots of things to interact with...
Oh, yeah - and the multiplayer on battle.net, challenges, achievements, all that.



Then again, to be honest - if you're viewing it as "just another game on the market", you're probably better off waiting a while.

And wrong spelling. Way to fail Kevin...

That's also called illegal, considering chargebacks have to be substantiated. Initiating a chargeback simply to get around a retailer's return policy is not a smart move. Last time I checked, "I'm trying to work the store over so I can get the benefits of a special offer without actually buying the product" is not a legitimate reason to initiate a chargeback, and you are scum if you do.

SWEET.

I'll probably just play the pirated single player for a few years, then buy the collectors edition when it's 40 bucks.

I can't justify working 5.5 hours to pay for it otherwise.

Got mine, Woot!

$5 for a beta and you won't pick it up there, but will somewhere else... You must really hate Gamestop.

Look at all you Blizzard lemmings. You believe anything that bullshit company tells you. I've been a beta tester for months, and its an okay game- as of 4 years ago.

First of all, none of you can obviously see the greediness of Blizzard in releasing a third of the campaign at a time. In the past, expansions existed to EXPAND THE GAME, not tell the original story.

As most of you, I've been a Blizzard and Starcraft fan since the original Warcraft game ( or Starcraft) since the 90s. I'm 23 now and Starcraft was released when I was 11. Basically, Blizzard's time is up and I've moved on to other genres that actually deliver sequels in a non ridiculous manner.

Are you talking about living in Canada? Gamestop is doing it here, too.
http://www.gamestop.ca/Catalog/Pro [...] _ID=253908

Just ordered 2 collectors, 25off did not work... I hope they give me at least 2 beta keys.

For those saying the $60 price point is Activisions doing, a friend of mine actually preordered SC2 from BestBuy over 3 years ago (before Blizzard was owned by Activision) and the price point was $60 even then. So as much as I hate Activision, the price of the game really isn't their fault this time.

Again I say $59.95 for a three part game. First off when did PC games start costing as much as kiddie console games. I guess when enough people will pay the price. Not me, FU Activision/Blizzard. I will wait for a Battle-Chest, patience is a virtue.

give me LAN and offline option and we'll talk....

Not saying the game popularity will be equivalant but Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age are two of the highest rated games of the past few months and they are already down in the $30 range...