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[Sith_exar_kun]

Marn_Cherone wrote...

Another question: Has someone of you ever preordered something from game.co.uk, while living in europe. Any experiences or trouble there? Or in other words: is game.co.uk trustworthy like amazon.co.uk, when shiping in other counries? I'm currently holding on one preorder for BF3 ltd Ed. from there.

I received my copy (I live in Italy) of Dragon Age 2 SE, more than 1 month late, they missent it to singapore (but i don't know if it's game fault or the courier).

[this isnt my name]

Roeding wrote...

Marn_Cherone wrote...

the normal version is available for 27,99 Punds =31,5731 Euro = 45,8126 Dollar

the Collector's Edition is 69,99 Pounds = 78,9498 Euro = 114,5561 Dollar

at current stock

that is +150%! that means vor 1 Ce you could get 2 and a half normal editions if the price stays the same.

I'm not sure if the aditional content is really worth that.

They call it additional content, I call it content removed from the normal version.

They just want people to pay extra to get the full game, sadly people do.

Agreed, especially when its announced this early. Bioware has months but they alreay have a character set aside for dlc. Its  a damn joke, and it annos thehell out of me. Dlc should be "Ok we shipped the game, now lets add content to it" not "Ok we have completed the game, now withold these parts until they pay us extra". God and you people wonder why us gamers buy pre owned, its because if you try to extort people they tend to get annoyed and decide to go further by making sure you see NONE of the money.

[nitrog100]

US price is only 33% more. $79.99 FTW.

[Bad King]

nitrog100 wrote...

US price is only 33% more. $79.99 FTW.

Yeah Canadians and Americans are lucky sods!

[Marn_Cherone]

Sith_exar_kun wrote...

Marn_Cherone wrote...

Another question: Has someone of you ever preordered something from game.co.uk, while living in europe. Any experiences or trouble there? Or in other words: is game.co.uk trustworthy like amazon.co.uk, when shiping in other counries? I'm currently holding on one preorder for BF3 ltd Ed. from there.

I received my copy (I live in Italy) of Dragon Age 2 SE, more than 1 month late, they missent it to singapore (but i don't know if it's game fault or the courier).

...dang, that sounds unfortunate. did you mailed them or did the y found out on their own about that mistake?

[Undertone]

So I guess I will be ordering from the german amazon instead of game.uk if I have the guarantee that my game won't be dubbed or subtitled in german and yeah I need it in PC, not console.

Should ship really fast from Germany to Bulgaria.

[Vanguard Of Destruction]

*sigh* So the only website it's available on in the UK, is one that I never use. Why isn't this on Amazon yet?

Modifié par Vanguard Of Destruction, 11 juin 2011 - 07:24 .

[Undertone]

Now I thought of something - probably the art book and everything else though will be in german even if the game itself won't be...God **** **** it.

[aries1001]

Games (pc games that is) has always been sold at 349 kr. (DKK) for the normal edition. and about (Danish that is). Depending on the exhange rate that can range from about 35 US dollars to 70 US dollars. In Euros, this is about 46-48 Euros. For instance, the collector's edition of Witcher did cost 749 DKK. (about 100 Euros which is about the same in £ - at least for the exchange rates we use in Denmark.). The N7 Collector's Edition of ME3 will likely cost the same, I think.

When I started buying games back in 1998, games back then also cost 349-399 kr. and console games was about 549-649 kr. (depending on several things...) Inflation has gone with with what 2% pr. year or so; games should then cost at least 1/3 more than back in 1998, if not more. They don't. Because gaming has now become a mass industry.

The point of this is to say, yes today games may seem more expensive to you, but they cost exactly the same (or maybe a little more) as they did in 1998. And personally, I don't think paying 100 Euros for a collector's edition is that bad. I just wish the N7 edition of Mass Effect 3 had went the way of Witcher 2's Collector's Edition. I'll probably get the normal edition at some point, though...

[Pepper4]

On a similiar matter:
Why does the Digital Deluxe edition cost exactly like the CE? I mean, I thought that the CE costs more because of the art book/patch/metal case.
I'm gonna spend these 80 bucks anyway so it doesn't really matter, but I still don't get why digital download isn't cheaper.

[Dave666]

this isnt my name wrote...

Roeding wrote...

Marn_Cherone wrote...

the normal version is available for 27,99 Punds =31,5731 Euro = 45,8126 Dollar

the Collector's Edition is 69,99 Pounds = 78,9498 Euro = 114,5561 Dollar

at current stock

that is +150%! that means vor 1 Ce you could get 2 and a half normal editions if the price stays the same.

I'm not sure if the aditional content is really worth that.

They call it additional content, I call it content removed from the normal version.

They just want people to pay extra to get the full game, sadly people do.

Agreed, especially when its announced this early. Bioware has months but they alreay have a character set aside for dlc. Its  a damn joke, and it annos thehell out of me. Dlc should be "Ok we shipped the game, now lets add content to it" not "Ok we have completed the game, now withold these parts until they pay us extra". God and you people wonder why us gamers buy pre owned, its because if you try to extort people they tend to get annoyed and decide to go further by making sure you see NONE of the money.

Well said.  I'll be buying a normal edition of ME:3 second hand.  I can always rent it from Blockbuster when its newly out and its waaaaay cheaper than wasting all that money.  I have no intention of paying for DLC that they've deliberately left out of the game.  Sod that.  That said, I suspect that this is the last Bioware game I'll be buying at all, they've had my money for about twelve years now.  Time to move on to a company that makes the kind of games that I actually want to play.  I haven't followed Bioware for over a decade because I was hoping that some day they would make a shooter hybrid, I followed them because I wanted RPG's and they were renowned for them.

[Sailears]

Yeah it is a little steep (£79 made me a little), but at least the money isn't taken until near release so there's many months to think about it.

Hopefully the price could become lower within that time.

[Marn_Cherone]

Undertone wrote...

Now I thought of something - probably the art book and everything else though will be in german even if the game itself won't be...God **** **** it.

that is unfortunatly very likley to happen sorry. at least for the manual. I rember someone saying the stuff from  ME2 CE was exept for package and manual completly in english. but I cannot garantee it will be the same with ME3 CE then.

[Marn_Cherone]

Curunen wrote...

Yeah it is a little steep (£79 made me a little), but at least the money isn't taken until near release so there's many months to think about it.

Hopefully the price could become lower within that time.

very good point. the reason i didn't cancel yet. unfortunatly the price garantee Game is offering seems not as convienient as amason's.

[Stoko981]

Copy pasting what I wrote in another thread before I saw this one:

"So, Americans are asked to pay $20 more for the CE than the regular game. To get all that extra stuff for such a small extra cost, it's not surprising EA/Bioware's American fans are excited. I mean sure, it's not an "uber" edition as they cryptically hinted we might get when they posted a thread asking for Uber Edition content suggestions. But it still looks meatier than the ME2 CE.

So that's great, for America. Brits on the other hand are asked to pay £30 more for the CE than the regular game. Which will probably be £40 in the end, since Amazon typically end up discounting games by £10 in the run up to their release, whereas GAME (who appear to have the CE exclusively, again) typically don't.

£30 is $48.70, £40 is $64.94. Either way, that's a vast amount more than $20.

The regular edition (and indeed, 99% of games on launch) will cost us £39.99, which works out only $5 more than America's $59.99, which is fair enough, barely any difference. But if price parity can be maintained for normal games like that, why do EA feel they can get away with extorting so much more from their customers in other countries for special editions?

I'm struggling for words to describe this. Rip-off? Blatant cheek? In no way worth so much more money? Yet another example of EA's America-centric attitude toward business? Something along those lines."

Only to add: GAME ended up taking £5 off the price last time, lowering it from the RRP of £59.99 to £54.99. They had the ME2 CE as a retailer exclusive (not counting GameStation and Gameplay, which are all the same company as GAME), so I'm guessing it's the same thing with this one.

Personally? I was really hyped up for ME2. I LOVED ME1, so I went all out for ME2. I preordered the CE at GAME, the regular game at Amazon and at Play, to get all the preorder bonuses. I even bought DAO on release for £25, used the Blood Dragon Armour code and sold it at CEX for £20 the next day.

My original plan was to return the two regular editions for full refunds and to keep the CE. But, when I realised a) how rubbish ME2's CE was and how overpriced it was, I altered that idea. I kept one of the regular games, returned the other, and sold the CE on eBay. Some poor idiot bought it for £85. Plus, I got a decent deal on one of the regular editions by preordering really early on Amazon. Add that all together - even the £5 cost from the DAO thing - I ended up having ME2 two days before launch, with all the preorder DLC, for a total of £11.74.

Then I played ME2, and decided I was just the slightest bit gutted I'd bothered going to all that trouble, because while enjoyable enough, it was no ME1. And I was happy I paid no more than £11.74 for it, because it really wasn't worth any more than that. And ME3 looks identical to ME2, except for a couple of bells and whistles. So while I'm going to buy the ME3 CE and once again try to sell it on eBay for an exorbitant sum (purely to try and mitigate as much of the cost of the regular edition as possible), I don't think I'll bother with the pre-order stuff this time. Just not worth it.

[efrgfhnm_]

This price is ridiculous, I was looking forward to the CE, and would have paid maybe £10 or £20 more than the regular edition, but over double the cost? Seriously? The items that are included are laughable, an N7 patch???
As for the content removed from the regular game, it still nowehere near justifies the price. A hoodie and some guns are nothing more then the offers usually found for pre-ordering at certain stores, so don't help. The dog is barely worth mentioning. As for the extra mission and character, if something that major is not available in all first-hand copies, such as DA2s signature edition or ME2s Cerberus Network, then that really is exploitation..

[Sailears]

Looking at what's included, if the digital download CE (via steam or other) contains digital versions of the artwork, comic, along with the soundtrack and all the in game bonuses, then I'll most likely cancel and go for that.

Will only be missing out on a physical artbook, litho and comic, as well as the box, which I think I can live with.

Still doesn't change the issue with the slightly high price, but anyway...

To be honest, the only physical edition I would buy without question or hesitation, is a complete trilogy box set, if/when it is ever made in a couple of years.

[azerSheppard]

i'm willing to cough up 80€ for the CE xbox version, if, and only IF we are getting something like a cerberus network card, granting us some future dlc, nothing major, just some heavy/non-heavy weapons and armor. (aside from the N7 weapon set, and alternate costumes)

i'm looking forward to the lithograph xd

[Bad King]

Stoko981 wrote...

Copy pasting what I wrote in another thread before I saw this one:

"So, Americans are asked to pay $20 more for the CE than the regular game. To get all that extra stuff for such a small extra cost, it's not surprising EA/Bioware's American fans are excited. I mean sure, it's not an "uber" edition as they cryptically hinted we might get when they posted a thread asking for Uber Edition content suggestions. But it still looks meatier than the ME2 CE.

So that's great, for America. Brits on the other hand are asked to pay £30 more for the CE than the regular game. Which will probably be £40 in the end, since Amazon typically end up discounting games by £10 in the run up to their release, whereas GAME (who appear to have the CE exclusively, again) typically don't.

£30 is $48.70, £40 is $64.94. Either way, that's a vast amount more than $20.

The regular edition (and indeed, 99% of games on launch) will cost us £39.99, which works out only $5 more than America's $59.99, which is fair enough, barely any difference. But if price parity can be maintained for normal games like that, why do EA feel they can get away with extorting so much more from their customers in other countries for special editions?

I'm struggling for words to describe this. Rip-off? Blatant cheek? In no way worth so much more money? Yet another example of EA's America-centric attitude toward business? Something along those lines."

Only to add: GAME ended up taking £5 off the price last time, lowering it from the RRP of £59.99 to £54.99. They had the ME2 CE as a retailer exclusive (not counting GameStation and Gameplay, which are all the same company as GAME), so I'm guessing it's the same thing with this one.

Personally? I was really hyped up for ME2. I LOVED ME1, so I went all out for ME2. I preordered the CE at GAME, the regular game at Amazon and at Play, to get all the preorder bonuses. I even bought DAO on release for £25, used the Blood Dragon Armour code and sold it at CEX for £20 the next day.

My original plan was to return the two regular editions for full refunds and to keep the CE. But, when I realised a) how rubbish ME2's CE was and how overpriced it was, I altered that idea. I kept one of the regular games, returned the other, and sold the CE on eBay. Some poor idiot bought it for £85. Plus, I got a decent deal on one of the regular editions by preordering really early on Amazon. Add that all together - even the £5 cost from the DAO thing - I ended up having ME2 two days before launch, with all the preorder DLC, for a total of £11.74.

Then I played ME2, and decided I was just the slightest bit gutted I'd bothered going to all that trouble, because while enjoyable enough, it was no ME1. And I was happy I paid no more than £11.74 for it, because it really wasn't worth any more than that. And ME3 looks identical to ME2, except for a couple of bells and whistles. So while I'm going to buy the ME3 CE and once again try to sell it on eBay for an exorbitant sum (purely to try and mitigate as much of the cost of the regular edition as possible), I don't think I'll bother with the pre-order stuff this time. Just not worth it.

This is a win post.

[BlackAdder117]

VolusNamedBob wrote...

Bad King wrote...

VolusNamedBob wrote...

Hey, at least it's not Australian prices.

What are the Australian prices at?

Well for almost every new release Australia gets the highest prices, something like a hundred dollars.

Too true mate. Us Aussies always get flogged when it comes to the sale and purchase of electronic goods. Probably has to do with shipping costs and delivery, but that's besides the point...

We have a strong economy, and we still have to pay top dollar. Now I'mma definitely orderin' from overseas, like the US. I'd rather pay $50-$60 for the standard than having to pay up to $100-$120, minus the shipping and delivery.

But then again. it's probably as bad an annoyance for the rest around the globe.

[Captain Crash]

Still keeping my fingers crossed that Bioware steps in and either gives us something extra because of this extortionate price or the stores lower it to something more reasonable then £70 for whats included.


I want the CE because im a massive fan. But as a massive fan im forced to pay out a ludicrous price. Doesn't make your loyal fans feel that special.

Modifié par Captain Crash, 13 juin 2011 - 12:34 .

[Estelindis]

Marn_Cherone wrote...

Another question: Has someone of you ever preordered something from game.co.uk, while living in europe.

Yes.  I pre-ordered my collector's edition of ME2 from game.co.uk when I lived in Paris.  It arrived on release day.  I was extremely impressed.

[Gill Kaiser]

What is this nonsense? They've set the price of the PC CE to the same level as the console CEs? That is completely unjustifiable, considering the console versions are only that expensive because of licence fees.

Seriously... over twice the price? Insanity.

[Stezizi]

Same here in Italy

Mass Effect 3 N7 CE in USA: 79$ -> 54-55 EUR

But the same on gamestop.it for PC (!!) is sold for 89.99 EUR!! (over 130 $)

Tell me that is an (unfunny) joke...