Cataclysm CE features announced, I sigh
I’ve never understood the collector’s editions for World of Warcraft. I really enjoy the game, but there are so many easily attainable pets (which is the only thing that really entices me out of the feature list) that I can’t really understand dropping the extra cash on it. People spend money on weirder stuff, and I guess there’s enough involved to keep the crazy lore freaks happy.
Here’s what you get:
CATACLYSM EXCLUSIVE BEHIND-THE-SCENES DVD:
• Over an hour of developer interviews and commentaries, discussing the game’s development from early design through finished gameplay.
• The Cataclysm intro cinematic and major content patch trailers complete with Director’s Commentary.
• A special Warcraft retrospective examining the rich gaming history of the Warcraft universe.
COLLECTOR’S EDITION SOUNDTRACK:
• Seventeen epic tracks from Cataclysm.
THE ART OF CATACLYSM:
• 176 pages of art, featuring never-before-seen images from the archives of the Blizzard Film Department and the World of Warcraft development team.
• Progressive visuals from every stage of development – from early concepts through to finished, detailed art.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT®: CATACLYSM™ PC/MAC GAME:
• The full World of Warcraft expansion set on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT TRADING CARD GAME STARTER PACKS AND EXCLUSIVE CARDS:
• One 60-card deck from the new Wrathgate series featuring two extended art cards and visuals from several of fantasy’s top creators.
• Two exclusive hero cards, marking the first appearance of goblin and worgen heroes in the WOW:TCG.
• One full-sized rule book to teach you how to play.
EXCLUSIVE IN-GAME PET:
• He may not be a breaker of worlds… at least not yet… but Lil’ Deathwing will still aid you in your titanic struggle to save Azeroth from his much, much larger counterpart.
CATACLYSM MOUSEPAD:
• A special-edition mouse pad depicting Deathwing menacing the ravaged continents of Azeroth.
See, there’s some good stuff in there. Gamestop lists the box set at $79.99.
Posted in: Activision, Previews
Tags: cataclysm, cataclysm ce, cataclysm collector's edition, warcraft, world of warcraft, wow
When I bought SC2 the kid at best buy asked me if I wanted the collector’s edition for an extra $8,000 dollars or whatever it was. He started telling me all the “great stuff” it included. He might as well have been trying to sell me shampoo and conditioner in two separate bottles. I had zero interest. There’s three things in this world I just can’t tolerate. Collector’s editions, chinese gold farmers and conditioner in a separate bottle.
..I think I’m going to just put the extra 30-35 bucks on The Old Republic rather than a crappy special edition.
HA! I saw the “pert” comment first and thought you meant something with the quality of being pert. Then I realized you meant the bright green shampoo/conditioner combo. Hilarious.
Agreed, Kendei. If that 35-40 gets me SWTOR, I’d much rather have that. Shit, I’d rather have Plants vs Zombies 2 than the collector’s edition of Cataclysm but to each his own.
I think I got maybe 1 collectors edition, and I regretted it because… why is this stupid pewter C&C figure still on my shelf? So yeah, no more of that double money wasting.
Actually, I kind of like the collector’s edition idea. Since the dollar cost for playing is a drop in the bucket compared with time costs; the crap bundled with it is equivalent to six or seven hours at a minimum wage job. Compare that with the rewards of six hours grinding gear. Stuff like the art book will also help, in a very material way, explain to junior the coolness of the lvl 85 toon that they spent thousands of hours ( >2months game-time) spent on building it
I cant wait until they release a platinum membership for wow.