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[TheMadCat]

Dave of Canada wrote...

TheMadCat wrote...

I'd hardly give praise to a company when they're asking you to preorder 3 months prior to the games actual release in order to get these "goodies". If that ran it up to the launch date then it'd be a different story.

Most Collector's Edition version of games require a preorder of they'll sell out before release. How is this any different? The good thing being here that Bioware is telling you the exact date of the cutoff instead of showing up and going "Sup. Sorry, we're sold out.".

Collectors Editions that actually come with physical materials aside from a manual and DVD are what may sell out, this edition though has none of it. It's a couple of ingame items and a DLC. The cutoff date is just means you'll have to pay extra after it to get it all like a standard Collectors Edition.

Modifié par TheMadCat, 16 octobre 2010 - 04:39 .

[Leonia]

Then don't buy it. Easy!



Now pass those banana daiquiris over..

[Dave of Canada]

TheMadCat wrote...

Collectors Editions that actually come with physical materials aside from a manual and DVD are what may sell out, this edition though has none of it. It's a couple of ingame items and a DLC.

Most Collector's Editions are 20$ for a Making of CD that you'll watch and throw away (MGS4 and Fable 2 [with it's bugged code] comes to mind). Soundtrack, ingame content and whatever this armory thing is sound like fair for the original price.

I mean... I'm disappointed there's no steelbook. But... c'est la vie.

[TheMadCat]

I know, I was just saying that Collectors Editions that only come with digital items, such as the DA2 Signature, don't sell out. Hell you can still buy the Origins Collectors Edition or whatever it's called. They'll simply convert it after the date and add $10-$20 to the tag.

[Herr Sovereign]

 Thank you Bioware for including the nice extras to those who pre-order. I am so psyched to hear the soundtrack

[TheMadCat]

Herr Sovereign wrote...

 Thank you Bioware for including the nice extras to those who pre-order. I am so psyched to hear the soundtrack

Just hope this time they actually give you the full soundtrack.

[Special_Agent_Goodwrench]

I ACTUALLY like that it has mostly in-game content and a soundtrack. More CEs should have some nifty in-game stuff.

You don't know how much joy did a simple weapon skin in Resistance 2 bring me.

[Dave of Canada]

DrunkDeadman wrote...

You don't know how much joy did a simple weapon skin in Resistance 2 bring me.

"OH. MY. GOD."
"What's wrong?"
"NOTHING'S WRONG! WEAPON SKIIIIN!"
"What?"
"WEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPOONNNNNNNNN SKIINNNNNNNN!"
"Slower."
"Weapon"
"Mhm"
"SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!"
"You lost me again."

[Special_Agent_Goodwrench]

Dave of Canada wrote...

DrunkDeadman wrote...

You don't know how much joy did a simple weapon skin in Resistance 2 bring me.

"OH. MY. GOD."
"What's wrong?"
"NOTHING'S WRONG! WEAPON SKIIIIN!"
"What?"
"WEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPOONNNNNNNNN SKIINNNNNNNN!"
"Slower."
"Weapon"
"Mhm"
"SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!"
"You lost me again."

Aye, aye.

[AETHELDOD2]

For what should I be thankfull??? As always Mexico is given the stick and a big Fyou by Bioware /EA , here  I stupidly buy Bioware games in chance that the will say "hey theres folks at Mexico who likes our stuff , lets give them this type of deals as well"   no love for us

[FaeQueenCory]

Considering the upgrade was free for preordering...

Thanks Bioware... and EA...





Never thought I'd ever thank EA after my Sims experiences......

[vampsrock9988]

FaeQueenCory wrote...

Never thought I'd ever thank EA after my Sims experiences......

Might I inquire as to what those were?  I stopped playing shortly after The Sims 3 came out.

[TeaCokeProphet]

OH GOD! A ZOMBIE THREAD!

[Bryy_Miller]

Well, this thread is kind of.... wonky....

Modifié par Bryy_Miller, 04 décembre 2010 - 05:09 .

[Nighteye2]

FaeQueenCory wrote...
Considering the upgrade was free for preordering...
Thanks Bioware... and EA...


Never thought I'd ever thank EA after my Sims experiences......

If you're lucky enough to have a shop nearby offering it...

[Maria Caliban]

Dave of Canada wrote...

TheMadCat wrote...

Collectors Editions that actually come with physical materials aside from a manual and DVD are what may sell out, this edition though has none of it. It's a couple of ingame items and a DLC.

Most Collector's Editions are 20$ for a Making of CD that you'll watch and throw away (MGS4 and Fable 2 [with it's bugged code] comes to mind). Soundtrack, ingame content and whatever this armory thing is sound like fair for the original price.

I mean... I'm disappointed there's no steelbook. But... c'est la vie.

I'm sad there's no steelbook and no map of Kirkwall.

As a collector's edition, the sig edition is kind of.. meh.

[Crimson Invictus]

As I was offered a plastic case and no map regardless, whatever.

Modifié par Liana Nighthawk, 04 décembre 2010 - 02:01 .

[Leonia]

AETHELDOD2 wrote...

For what should I be thankfull??? As always Mexico is given the stick and a big Fyou by Bioware /EA , here  I stupidly buy Bioware games in chance that the will say "hey theres folks at Mexico who likes our stuff , lets give them this type of deals as well"   no love for us

Buy the game from one of the many other countries in the world. For example, I am in Australia and the SE is offered here but I can get it cheaper from the UK store OzGameShop (where I ended up pre-ordering from). There are lots of places that ship internationally.

And, whoa, zombie thread is resurrected. Someone cast some holy magic over here.

[magicwins]

Maria Caliban wrote...

Dave of Canada wrote...

Most Collector's Editions are 20$ for a Making of CD that you'll watch and throw away (MGS4 and Fable 2 [with it's bugged code] comes to mind). Soundtrack, ingame content and whatever this armory thing is sound like fair for the original price.

I mean... I'm disappointed there's no steelbook. But... c'est la vie.

I'm sad there's no steelbook and no map of Kirkwall.

As a collector's edition, the sig edition is kind of.. meh.

Seconded. No idea what a steelbook is, but I would love to have a cloth map. I just think there's not enough. I mean, I'm happy with the upgrade and am thankful for the offer, but I'm also slightly let down by the freebies .

[Vylan Antagonist]

Amazing. Cognition is really something else. Presented with a marketing decision, invariably someone will ascribe some bizarre form of benevolence to it. Okay, sure, others will unerringly decry it as vile avarice, two sides to a coin and all that, but really, a gift? Isn't it possible, maybe, and bear with me because I'm just spitballin' here, but isn't it possible that this was simply an interesting and novel business decision to, I dunno, increase pre-orders and in so doing increase retailers' initial purchase numbers?



Oh, I know, how cynical. But it isn't as though I'm implying that they are trying to lock in preorders well in advance of potentially bad or middling previews. Not even sarcastically or implicitly. Seriously. I'm just saying that maybe it's more, let's say "value neutral". Rationally self-interested. Sensible, from a business perspective.



So maybe making a thread to sing paeans to it is just... ugh. Sycophantic, maybe?



I definitely appreciate the Shale situation for what it was, on multiple levels. In my opinion, that was was a confluence of a slight design issue (Shale's size), budgeted time that was already overrun, an increasing focus on DLC instead of expansions because of improved sell-through, and the growing movement by publishers to try to get a piece of second-hand sales and/or dissuade them. Shale was Shale.



On the other hand, deciding 5 months before going gold to allocate a character to only be available to buyers pre-ordering 2 months before release... That just doesn't sound like the same situation at all, does it? It doesn't sound like the character is in the same state, that the project is at the same point, or that the marketing goal is the same. They might be. But even that doesn't really matter. Getting Shale 'free' for buying the game new wasn't a [Paragon +10] act. Neither is this.



Seeing people outright praising the decision as munificence just feels embarassing. Ugh.



WWS(ten)D?

[Bryy_Miller]

Oh, it's not a gift, of course. It's simply an incentive.

[Leonia]

This is an old thread, Vylan, and was made when there was a lot of negative posts being made shortly after the SE announcement so.. to see it now is to see it completely out of context. The number of people who supported the SE at the time was much lower than those who were determined to prove the SE was some sort of anti-christ and evil thing created by EA to subjugate its customers.

Modifié par leonia42, 04 décembre 2010 - 04:58 .

[Vylan Antagonist]

leonia42 wrote...

This is an old thread, Vylan, and was made when there was a lot of negative posts being made shortly after the SE announcement so.. to see it now is to see it completely out of context.

Oh. [GildaRadner] Oh, well, nevermind then. [/GildaRadner]

[Darkhour]

$59.99 for a Pc game is not a deal.  Seems like we're paying for the DLC so what's the point. Only Best Buy has it at $49.99.

I guess for the console it's a deal, but for the PC not so much.  I guess they figure that because PC gamers are smarter, richer and more handsome than console gamers we could afford to pay an above average PC price.  Ah, the pains of being the master race.

[Bryy_Miller]

Darkhour wrote...

$59.99 for a Pc game is not a deal.

I agree. Sadly, though, the cost of games have increased by a huge percent over the past few years.