It's 60USD if you change your region to US which is supposed to be price entry point for AAA games these days. I suppose this means no entry for SEA servers. This RM250 price point is a bit ridiculous - who can we blame for this? Unboxing the standard edition was a very disappointing experience.

Ehhh... this is damned annoying.

Just checked play-asia. They're selling SC2 SEA version @ USD63.90 Which works out to roughly RM205.

Seriously, the local distributors don't really care about developing the local scene but are more concerned with profiteering of the hardcore.

Oh great.. just found out i can only post on the official SEA forums. That's a bit gimped isn't it?

That's what i thought when i opened the box.

To put it into perspective i got my LE copy of bioshock 2 for about RM260 after discounts which came with a vinyl record, hardcover art book, cd soundtrack in addition to the game. It's extremely disappointing for me at least.

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Added on July 28, 2010, 12:43 pmhttp://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-7s-49-en-70-3vzb.html is the page.

It's free shipping to malaysia actually, but from past experience this can take up to two weeks. You can pay extra for fedex options.

This post has been edited by Kidicarus: Jul 28 2010, 12:43 PM

Dude, US version is 60USD for both retail (from amazon) and digital (from battle.net).

Are we paying more because we're richer than the yanks?

yeah box art says south east asia.

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Someone help me understand how/why IAH games is involved with SC2 and also who our local publisher is?

This post has been edited by Kidicarus: Jul 28 2010, 01:07 PM

Except because our keys are region locked, we can't play against koreans because they have their own servers. Correct me if i'm wrong.

I think the people do care, it's either that people don't know or it's the fanboi apologists who're making it seem like it's ok to pay RM250 or USD17 more than the americans.

It's almost as if they're making us pay Ozzie prices

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Added on July 28, 2010, 2:19 pmI thought offline mode was offline but that you had to log back in every 30 days or something like that (unverified - picked up from somewhere on official forums)

This post has been edited by Kidicarus: Jul 28 2010, 02:19 PM

I think achievements are down at the moment - and you have to be online for achievements.

It's the IAH servers..

Read your blog, I only found out about the price difference on launch day(after i bought it and realised i couldn't really communicate with my EU friends). Kudos for not giving in to the temptation.

Unfortunately, I caved and am now cursing myself for not doing more research on this.

You probably should have gotten the US edition since it's cheaper and if you're not going to be using the SEA servers you're just giving the money to IAH and supporting their profiteering.

In any case you can't play in US yet. And not for another 2 months or so.

brrr... everytime someone mentions IAH i get horror flashbacks from the hellgate:london fiasco.

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Added on July 28, 2010, 4:28 pmI don't know what they promised, all i know is that on warcraft 3 i remember being able to play across different realms.

This post has been edited by Kidicarus: Jul 28 2010, 04:28 PM

and hang on i thought it was the keys that are region locked, not the game itself.

I know that's not the case because my battle.net account is originally an EU account with an EU WOW profile. I can manage my SEA SC2 account and EU Wow account through the same login. In fact, It's quite easy to change regional settings once you have logged onto battle.net.

My googling fails and i can't find a single faq over this region locking thingy. From what i understand SEA players will be allowed to play on the US servers but only by creating a new ID specifically for the US. Which means that achivements, friends lists and so on won't carry over to the US.

Attempting to post on the US forums, there's a message which specifies that i don't have a license for that region even though i am already logged into battle net. This leads my to believe that i can add US access and EU access irrespective of my geographical region onto battle.net by buying additional licenses specifically for this region.

If anything, I can post on SEA SC2 forums but that's just full of Australians complaining about being stuck on servers with asians. really.

With this whole region hullabaloo, I've only played the 1st campaign mission and will probably leave it till they sort out the US license issue.

Go into the official starcraft forums and you'll see the oceania players wanting out of SEA.

Ah but then you didn't have IAH running the servers