Collectors Edition

**Sir Beane** · 02-11-2009, 13:40

Originally Posted by pevergreen

Normal $99.99, Special Forces $109.99, Collectors Edition $119.99

Thats a lot for Special Forces! Over here in Europe you can get it for less than $70 (unless you are talking in Australian dollars, in which case it would be ... $77.45). It's suprising how much price seems to vary between areas.

**pevergreen** · 02-11-2009, 15:09

Not sure of the conversion rate, I thought it was about 2 EU to every 1 AU.

**t1master** · 02-11-2009, 18:20

are the special units only for sp/campaign mode?

**gollum** · 02-11-2009, 18:23

IIRC read somewhere in the .com that are in mp too.

!it burnsus!

**Sir Beane** · 02-11-2009, 18:25

CA have said that the Special Forces units are only available in Single Player so they do not cause MP gameplay to be unbalanced in favor of those with the Special Forces edition. I'll see if I can find a link.

**gollum** · 02-11-2009, 18:30

Just checked it Sir Beane is right - my mistake;

!it burnsus!

**t1master** · 02-11-2009, 18:49

there's a bit of contradictory info out there, especially if you're searching the threads at the .commie...

**knoddy** · 02-11-2009, 23:25

Originally Posted by Sir Beane

Thats a lot for Special Forces! Over here in Europe you can get it for less than $70 (unless you are talking in Australian dollars, in which case it would be ... $77.45). It's suprising how much price seems to vary between areas.

i would take a stab and say our tax system is so wierd and screwed that we pay more tax on ours :)

also possibly the import costs, cos we have to have ours shipped in from the UK? i would think but i could be wrong :)

CHeers Knoddy

**pevergreen** · 02-12-2009, 01:38

No, its simply that all the game companies are used to charging $100 for a new game, as the AUD was 1/2 the USD years ago. $50 for a new game in America, so double that for here. Now that our economy (was) getting stronger, calls went out to reduce the price of games, but they don't want to cut into their profits.

Rule of thumb: Buy from overseas, it will turn out cheaper. We are paying 20-30 dollars more than we should be.

**knoddy** · 02-12-2009, 02:29

heh fair enough, if i didnt hate steam so much id prob order it and download it but thats like a 5th of my dl limit assuming i do it off peak lol.

**Fisherking** · 02-12-2009, 11:27

Originally Posted by pevergreen

No, its simply that all the game companies are used to charging $100 for a new game, as the AUD was 1/2 the USD years ago. $50 for a new game in America, so double that for here. Now that our economy (was) getting stronger, calls went out to reduce the price of games, but they don't want to cut into their profits.

Rule of thumb: Buy from overseas, it will turn out cheaper. We are paying 20-30 dollars more than we should be.

It is the same here. The original prices started as €=$. When the dollar dropped we didn’t need to up it but it got crazy in some respects.

When the pound dropped it got cheap to buy in pounds with the €.

When I preordered if I could have paid in pounds it would only have been about €34 but I couldn’t and the site’s exchange rate was €48. Still cheaper than paying full price in shops here…and there are usually less problems with the English versions of the game than with the others.