Bargain Hunter: StarCraft II Price Round-Up

14 years ago

July 22, 2010 at 10:00 am

Hey, who wants to round up the prices for StarCraft II? Yes, let’s round up the prices for StarCraft II!

Below is a near-comprehensive list of Australian games retailers who are selling Blizzard’s imminent real-time strategy PC game. It launches on July 27, so you’ve got a few days left to preorder yours.

Prices for the standard edition of StarCraft II range from $79 up to its RRP of $99.95. CDWow had been offering it for a remarkable $55.95, but they are now – unsurprisingly – out of stock.

The StarCraft II Collectors Edition is pretty much sold out across the board. Sorry collectors!

If you’ve spotted a better deal anywhere, please let us know in the comments.

CDWow.com.au
$55.95 (out of stock)

CheapGames.com.au
$79.95

Dick Smith
$89

DStore.com.au
$84.79

DVDCrave.com.au
$79.95

EB Games
$98

FishPond.com.au
$79.97

GAME
$79 (online price)
$99.95 (in-store price, comes with t-shirt)

GameHead.com.au
$82.70

Game-Lane.com.au
$79.95

Games101.com.au
$84.95

The Gamesmen
$99.95 (plus poster)

Gametraders
$99.95 (plus t-shirt when preordered)

GamesWarehouse.com.au
$89.95 (plus free copy of Freedom Force Vs. The Third Reich when preordered)

GetGaming.com.au
$90

Harvey Norman
$88

JB Hi-Fi
$89

Sanity
$89.99

TechBuy.com.au
$88.95

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44 responses to “Bargain Hunter: StarCraft II Price Round-Up”

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Jaded Buddha

July 22, 2010 at 10:11 am

So this is just the Terran campaign right?

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1. Jamie Hales
  
  July 22, 2010 at 10:24 am
  
  Well it’s the whole game, but only the Terran third of the story
  
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2. Mr Explody
  
  July 22, 2010 at 10:51 am
  
  It’s Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty. The full game.
  
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3. Riavan
  
  July 22, 2010 at 11:04 am
  
  Whilst all the fanbois are trying to say no. Yes, it’s only a third of the game that Blizzard is packaging as a “whole game”.
  
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  1. Jamie Hales
    
    July 22, 2010 at 12:30 pm
    
    I’d say the fanboys want their Starcraft and the haters are complaining about Blizzard – I mean Actiblizz – I mean Activision splitting them. Honestly, people have been complaining about every developer while still paying and playing their games. It’s called the gaming INDUSTRY.
    
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    1. Scoutski
      
      July 22, 2010 at 12:46 pm
      
      Well said.
      
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      1. OT
        
        July 22, 2010 at 1:53 pm
        
        there kinda expansions is the best way to think of it
Jamie Hales

July 22, 2010 at 10:25 am

Oh EB, you and your over-pricing. Pity you’re so prevalent. I eBay everything but things like this, when I come crawling back to you, full of shame

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1. Aaron Meacham
  
  July 22, 2010 at 10:56 am
  
  Selling at RRP isn’t overpricing. Plus EB aren’t the only retailer selling it for that.
  
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2. OT
  
  July 22, 2010 at 12:22 pm
  
  EB price match
  
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3. Neil Williams
  
  July 22, 2010 at 11:41 pm
  
  Sure is unsubstantiated EB hate in here…
  
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Ross Moir

July 22, 2010 at 10:29 am

I think I managed to find one of the last collectors editions available online back at the start of june or so, eb had sold out, game had sold out, couple of other sites, managed to find it at JB, which next I checked had also sold out.

Yes, wings of liberty is the terran campaign, but it’s long enough to be considered a game in its own right and all races are available for online games. Blizzard has been clear about this for more than a year.

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Foxbane

July 22, 2010 at 10:30 am

Iv been looking on cdwow for sc2 and i cant find it can someone link it please

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1. Foxbane
  
  July 22, 2010 at 10:31 am
  
  Ok i found it http://www.cdwow.com.au/games/starcraft-2-pc/dp/9342127 and $99 is not the same at 55
  
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  1. David Wildgoose
    
    July 22, 2010 at 10:40 am
    
    Interesting. It had been listed as $55 up until yesterday afternoon when I wrote this post, but also as “unavailable at this time”. Looks like they updated the price overnight.
    
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    1. Eric
      
      July 22, 2010 at 10:55 am
      
      I think the reason you’re finding different prices is since CDwow has different prices for games they import from the UK/USA and their Australian stock. I remember seeing two prices for Toy Story 3 for PS3, one was $109 and the other was around $79.
      
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  2. Crossfire
    
    July 22, 2010 at 2:35 pm
    
    ive had my copy pre ordered since febuary from cdwow
    
    http://www.cdwow.com.au/games/starcraft-ii-wings-of-liberty-pc/dp/4759417
    
    Sadly due to region locking i may be cancelling mypre order if the game isnt in the oceania region (therefore i wont be able to play with other friends in aus)
    
    i did however email cdwow and they replied saying that they would forward my query to the game buyer and have a reply within 24 hours… but ive still been waiting for a reply since tuesday….
    
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Peter Richards

July 22, 2010 at 10:36 am

I don’t really want starcraft, I want another tradition warcraft game, like warcraft II, I never liked warcraft 3. Starcraft never quite managed the humour of the WC games, and looks a little grey and sterile compared to them as well. I miss having sea and air battles in the WC universe, I wish WoW never came about, then we might have had a new warcraft game one day.

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1. DogMan
  
  July 22, 2010 at 12:07 pm
  
  Have you looked around for fan made Warcraft III campaigns? I seem to remember the editor being detailed enough to handle it and there’s a lot of people who feel the same way about Warcraft III as you do.
  Just doing a quick Google search I found this. I can’t tell you if any of them are good, but there’s about 12 pages of them so hopefully there’s a gem or two in there.
  
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Alex Walker

July 22, 2010 at 10:40 am

Wings of Liberty will be mostly Terran missions, but there are a couple Protoss and Zerg missions in the campaign as well.

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Chuloopa

July 22, 2010 at 10:41 am

I’d personally go for the one that comes with FFvTR if i didn’t already have it.. top game!

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Grim

July 22, 2010 at 11:19 am

CE sold out? Glad I already put my money down for it =)

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NegativeZero

July 22, 2010 at 11:21 am

Anyone know if we’ll be able to obtain it digitally through Blizzard directly? That could be cheaper than most retail outfits in Australia…

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1. Troy Thompson
  
  July 22, 2010 at 12:22 pm
  
  It will be available (actually, you can download it now. locked) No idea on the pricing thought.
  Hoping it will be cheaper, I am not really in a hurry to get it, I can wait.
  
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OT

July 22, 2010 at 12:16 pm

cant not wait had my collectors edition payed for months 5 days!!!!!!!

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Foxbane

July 22, 2010 at 12:32 pm

Ok I’v found out that sc2 has 2 different pricing on cdwow.com.au one is the uk version $55 and the other is aussie for $99 the difference being that in australia you can’t go into battle.net with the uk version cause its region locked

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1. Tbdejavu Yasin Erbasi
  
  July 22, 2010 at 2:32 pm
  
  can you link me to where you found info on aussies can’t play SC2 with a uk CD please, as i bought a uk copy months ago
  
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  1. OT
    
    July 22, 2010 at 3:21 pm
    
    why didnt you just buy a Aussie copy
    
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    1. Chris Bobridge
      
      July 22, 2010 at 7:35 pm
      
      Probably due to the fact that the UK copy was cheaper?
      
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    2. alinos
      
      July 22, 2010 at 8:31 pm
      
      well easy because otherwise were stuck on the asian servers(admittedly you should get a lower ping to the states)
      
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      1. OT
        
        July 22, 2010 at 11:14 pm
        
        who cares about mp why pay 100 bucks just to get owned by Koreans lan or bust and why cheapen on something as big as this
      2. Strand0410
        
        July 23, 2010 at 3:10 am
        
        Korea isn’t part of the Oceanic server. They have their own thing.
nathaniel

July 22, 2010 at 12:43 pm

$74 bux!

http://www.zoneadrenalan.com.au/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=2397&osCsid=80bc396da90ec8c556891532c8890372

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1. days
  
  July 22, 2010 at 10:02 pm
  
  zoneadrenalan is good but they always out of stock and u have pick up the game..
  i rather pre-order from game ($79) with free postage.
  
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Dunnowhathuh

July 22, 2010 at 1:09 pm

Guess I’ll be dropping by JB or Dick Smith after uni. Don’t think my local Sanity ever sold games. Shame there aren’t any of those cheap retail prices you see every now and then on new releases.

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YoWombat

July 22, 2010 at 6:21 pm

No LAN = No sale!
Terran campaign only doesn’t help either.

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Joshua Harrison-Brown

July 23, 2010 at 2:44 am

Don’t forget GAME price matches, so for anyone with a members card its def worth price matching AND getting the points + a T-shirt.

Also i think they may be opening an Hr earlier on the day

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1. Benjamin Sutton
  
  July 26, 2010 at 9:31 pm
  
  No need to price match at GAME. It’ll be $79 there, but for tomorrow only! If you pre-ordered, you still get the shirt for free!
  
  Didn’t pre-order? Don’t fret, you can buy the shirts for $10. Plus there will be faction shirts and keychains for sale as well.
  
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Strand0410

July 23, 2010 at 3:12 am

Why is LAN such a dealbreaker for people. You realise you can set up a ‘LAN party’ but still play each other via Bnet right? The lag issue is nonexistent.

And people whining about how it only has the Terran campaign… the single Terran campaign in this is likely going to be longer than the entire SC1 or BW. Plus it’s much more interactive and has RPG elements. Considering people have been buying add-on packs for console games for years, not sure what the fuss is about.

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1. JohnDoe
  
  August 6, 2010 at 11:44 am
  
  LAN is a big deal because people don’t always have reliable internet access.
  
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Rabbling Rabbler

August 2, 2010 at 8:19 am

Dick Smith’s selling SC2 for $70 in Melbourne until the 16th of August and K-mart is selling it for $75 until the 4th, get onto it.

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Noobie

September 20, 2010 at 10:31 pm

Try http://www.gamecafe.com.au/GamePrices.aspx?p=All&Search=starcraft+2+wings+of+liberty

GameCafe is a pretty good starting point for price roundups….

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Diajimtkhz

March 30, 2011 at 1:00 pm

ozgameshop.com $54.99 In stock, free delivery!

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Diajimtkhz

March 30, 2011 at 1:14 pm

Just did a search ‘Starcraft II’. None of the so-called bargain finder sites (myshopping, shopbot, getprice) have it listed cheaper ozgameshop. Guess the stores have to pay a percentage to those search sites and then tack that onto the game price. And here I was thinking those ‘search-for-bargain-price’ sites were actually getting me the lowest price. The blindfold has lifted and I see the light.

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Bargain Hunter: StarCraft II Price Round-Up

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