Let's have a round of applause to Blizzard's marketing team -- deciding to make a $70 dollar expansion pack for WoW is a pretty ballsy move. In fact, I'm pretty sure this is the most expensive expansion set in the history of the games industry. Heck, even whole boxed game sequels don't sell for that much.
The normal price of the Burning Crusade expansion set is $40. For 30 bucks more, you get a whole mess of extras:
- World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade on both CD and DVD
- World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Behind-the-Scenes DVD
- The Art of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Hardcover Art Book
- Exclusive In-Game Pet: Netherwhelp
- Two World of Warcraft Trading Card Game Starter Packs, plus Exclusive Cards
- Map of Outland Mouse Pad
- World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Soundtrack CD
The two big things that make it worth it are the Hardcover Art Book, and the In-Game Pet. You think I kid about the pet, but I've had people offer me ridiculous sums of money when they see me running around with my Collector's Edition pets (Diablo, Zergling or Panda). And those Baby Murlocs that you get from BlizzCon are pretty sweet as well -- I've seen them ebay'd for some nice change in the past like this one, where the Murloc pet sold for 700+ dollars. That's good, solid American currency, folks. Or this unopened Collector's Edition which sold YESTERDAY for $630. Damn, I never shoulda opened mine -- but the art book was just too pretty to not look at.
To be fair, the Collector's Edition of WoW was near impossible to get -- I had heard rumors that Blizzard themselves did not even have enough copies internally to give to their employees, and so resorted to picking up copies at Fry's.
I have no clue how many copies of the Burning Crusade Collector's Edition they're making -- I know it's gotta be more than the 70,000 they made for WoW, but I would not expect it to be worth that much in the future, but I'm buying it anyway.
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