just a friendly reminder, more information before you make that purchase
it is REGION LOCKED
SE Asia distributed by IAH (NEVER FORGET FAILGATE:LONDON) costs 109$
US region is 80$ ++
--both prices in sgd
region locked means seasia ver cant play on us servers and vice versa.
so ask ur friends which ver they're buying so u guys can play together.
might be outdated news, not keeping track of developments, apparently recently iah invited 10 gamers
for dinner to do an explanation of sorts as to y SEA, not a very developed region, pays more than the rest of the world.
my take is, average malaysians and singaporeans can buy the game without any financial difficulty, not too sure bout the poorer countries and their willingness to fork out a sizable chunk of cash.
excerpt from the 1 month old post
GAX: Why not give gamers the option to connect to both the U.S. and SEA servers, depending on who they want to play with?
Yu: Well I look at it like World of Warcraft, in the past each of the realms were very separated, there weren’t many ways for you to connect to other realms, but then as time went on we looked at the popularity of each of the realms and we started adding ways for people to connect to each other, through shared Battlegroups and such. I can’t really say what we’re going to be doing with StarCraft in the future but looking historically, we’ve found ways to bridge players together. It’s something we’re going to see how it rolls out at first. Right now, we believe there’s enough players on the SEA servers to form a thriving environment. You’ll also be playing with Australia and New Zealand.
blizzard - 20$ u paying goes to paying for the expensive bandwidth here in sg
me - 20$ pay for ur office and staff
lengthy post, just a reminder though, in case you have to double purchase because ur friends are all horde and ur the only alliance scenario
extra note: wcg is friday, expo
